Today, NPR celebrates the 50-year anniversary of our first on-air original show. For five decades, NPR and our member stations have shared the responsibility — and privilege — to serve the individual ...

In the early 1970s, "Superstar" was a song that had already been recorded by a handful of famous faces. Written by Bonnie ...

A song can only hit the top of the charts by knocking another song down, and that's precisely what these three 1971 hit songs did.

The year 1971 might have been over 50 years ago, but music from that year (and era as a whole) is still such a treat to enjoy today. And with such a wide range of genres and bands competing for ...

Fifty years ago the Vietnam War was raging, the civil rights era had morphed into the Black Power movement, President Nixon declared a war on drugs and not only the U.S. but other countries seemed in ...