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Between quitting the Velvet Underground and writing “Walk on the Wild Side,” the singer endured a long stretch of doubt, frustration and failure.

The music journalist made many key cultural moments of the 1960s possible. Then, he disappeared

One week after my column was published, I was in Montpelier at a reception and shook hands with Mr. Snelling. He looked at me intently. I began sweating profusely. Then he smiled and said, ”Good to see you again.”

Badfinger's Joey Molland and even 'Simpsons' creator, Matt Groening, saw how George Harrison reacted to being treated like a Beatle.

Teenage pop fans have long been derided as vacuous victims of marketing. But there is so much more to it than that, explains a Harry Styles aficionado

29 June, 1968 On June 14, LIFE magazine’s Al Aronowitz had hailed Tiny...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago...... As I cover John Prine's debut LP from 1971...I ca...

An Exegesis by Stu Levitan In late January and early February, 1964, when the number one song in America was “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” here’s what Bob Dylan was writing: Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind For the p...

. Bob Dylan turned 80 on Monday. Lionized, denigrated, dismissed, and reborn, he was finally celebrated properly, as a great poet, in 2016 with the Nobel Prize in Literature. But on the occasion of his birthday, I would like to offer him one more unlikely honorific: queer icon. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that Dylan is gay. In his autobiography he celebrated his devotion to the “eclectic girls … non-homemaker types” whom he met when he first arrived in Greenwich Village, and that pa...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Oct. 8, 1988. Ferlinghetti died on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 at the age of 101. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths) “The world is a beautiful place/ to be born into/ if you don’t mind happiness/ not always being/ so very much fun/ if you don’t mind a touch of hell/ now and then/ just when everything is fine/ because even in heaven/ they don’t sing/ all the time.” So wrote Lawrence Ferlinghetti in “The world is a beautiful place,” from his 1958 poetry collection A Coney ...