There was a time when a pop song wasn’t supposed to run much longer than the two-minute mark ... “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from The Beatles (1968) George Harrison wasn’t about to let another one ...
Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.
Peter Sinfield, who wrote the lyrics for King Crimson's first four albums and also worked with Roxy Music, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Cher, and more, has died at 80.