Many fans weren’t pleased with this prime spot looking backwards instead of forward, but the scene paradoxically did something new. After 20-odd teasers and reveals, the most surprising choice was not revealing anything at all. It also allowed the fabulous music and lyrics of Marc Shaiman and...
Tom Whitlock, who wrote the lyrics for the rock anthem “Danger Zone” and the chart-topping love song “Take My Breath Away” for the original Top Gun, winning an Oscar in the process, has died. He was 68.Whitlock died Saturday at a memory care center in Gallatin, Tennessee, a spokes...
Numerous defenders of Body Count’s First Amendment right to release “Cop Killer” couldn’t bring themselves to do so without trashing the song itself, calling the song “repugnant,”“as bad as anything ever put on a record or disc,” or “the cheapest, most conventional image of rebelli...
By 1934, Durante had a major record hit with his own novelty composition, "Inka Dinka Doo", with lyrics by Ben Ryan. It became his theme song for the rest of his life. Durante was an active member of the Democratic Party. In 1933, he appeared in an advertisement shown in theaters ...