Tears for Fears were working on material for what would become their second album, 1985’s Songs from the Big Chair. Indirectly, Don Henley provided an important piece of inspiration. As bassist and ...

Felder later went on to co-write two songs (“Too Many Hands,” “Visions”) on the band’s fourth album, One of These Nights, along with co-writing their classic “Hotel California” and “Victim of Love,” ...

To be sad in silence can sometimes seem impossible to bear, but sadness set to music can serve as a paradoxical salve for these raw emotions—an iconic Don McLean song from his 1971 album American Pie ...

"American Pie" singer Don McLean has been belting out his classic for the last 50 years. McLean recently spoke to Fox News Digital, and shared the compliment he received from country music legend ...

He became the Eagles' unquestioned leader following Glenn Frey's death, but Don Henley got off to a decidedly slow start as a songwriter. He only had one co-credited composition on their 1972 debut.

"A long, long time ago," Don McLean began writing a rock epic with those words. It's now been 50 years since "American Pie" — all eight and a half cryptic minutes of it— took hold of the airwaves in ...

Don McLean, the one-man creative force behind the hit songs "American Pie," "Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)," "And I Love You So," "Castles in the Air," and other songs, albums, tours and projects, ...

Listen to favorite songs by an adventurous musician who pushed the boundaries of jazz, selected by writers and musicians including Nailah Hunter, Kieran Hebden and the artist’s son Eagle-Eye Cherry.