MUSIC HISTORY

On July 11, 1969—just weeks before the Apollo 11 landing—David Bowie's iconic single 'Space Oddity' was released.

For decades, "This Land Is Your Land" been a staple of kindergarten classrooms "from California to the New York island," as the lyrics go. But Woody Guthrie didn't intend for the song to be a ringing endorsement of American exceptionalism—he wrote it for

Given the tens of millions of copies each of these albums have sold, you're almost guaranteed to have at least one of them in your collection.

Locked within Universal Music's vault since the time of its recording in April 1986, the track was produced at Abbey Road Studios as part of 'Time,' a concept album by Dave Clark.

Willie Nelson is one of the world’s most accomplished musicians—and not just in the country music world.

The Doodle lets you create your own Bach-inspired harmonies—with a little help from a machine learning model that was fed 306 Bach harmonies.

Haunted houses wouldn't be as scary without the Baroque master's 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.' But that's not all we have to thank him for.

This art poster visually charts the discography of the Beatles using songs like "Here Comes the Sun," "Strawberry Fields Forever," and "Blackbird."

Nina Simone—who was born as Eunice Waymon on February 21, 1933—was known for using her musical platform to speak out.

Dylan's personal copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" is one of the rare items on display. In it, he wrote notes and drew doodles.

On February 9, 1964, The Beatles—identified in a press release as a wildly popular quartet of English recording stars—performed on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in New York City and changed the course of music history.

On February 3, 1959, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson (along with pilot Roger Peterson) were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. The date became known as "The Day the Music Died."