The dance craze known as the twist seemed to take over the music world for a few years. When Hank Ballard wrote “The Twist” and put it out as the B-side of “Teardrops on Your Letter” in 1959, it was ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. "Ripping-off" was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...

The iconic dance hit “Twist and Shout” has been through a few iterations. R&B vocal group The Top Notes originally recorded the song, written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns, in February 1961. After ...

Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady” and “It’s Your Thing,” has ...

The cast of General Hospital headed to Memphis over the weekend for the annual fan convention at Graceland. Along with a meet ...

The Monkees were widely accused of ripping off The Beatles. “Ripping-off” was usually too strong a word for the inspiration that the Prefab Four took from the Fab Four, but the word applied well to a ...