It took me 23 years to cry for Steve Goodman. It happened when I was reading Page 637 of Clay Eals’ biography, “Steve Goodman: Facing the Music.” On that page, Eals tells of a meeting that Goodman and ...

You can hear almost all of African-American history in the music of the Staple Singers: slave-era folk songs and hymns; the Delta blues, considered the “devil’s music” by the hymn singers; gospel from ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Daniel de Visé began contemplating a biography of B.B. King — one of the most iconic figures in American music — he was shocked at what he discovered.

After reading “Janis: Her Life and Music” (Simon & Schuster, $28.99), New York writer Holly George-Warren’s engrossing new biography of Janis Joplin, I’m left to wonder how the self-destructive singer ...

Betty Johnson is an accomplished pop, gospel, country, and cabaret singer with a career lasting more than 40 years. She got her start in music as a nine-year-old, when her parents formed the Johnson ...

Tony Bennett is staying mum on David Evanier ‘s secrets-baring biography of him, but the author says he’s been told the crooner’s son would like to fly him on a one-way trip to the moon. Six months ...

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover, and a new biography of Paul Simon chronicles how the singer-songwriter met and ditched some of his. The normally reclusive music legend opened up to pop ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: If you enjoy rocking and rolling all night and partying every day, you’ll be happy to know that Biography’s two-part Kiss documentary premieres Sunday, June 27 on A&E!

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...