King — better known as B.B. King — was born on a cotton plantation outside tiny Itta Bena, destined to reign as the ...

While working with that latter band, Durden started to put together the lyrics for what would become “Heartbreak Hotel”.

Get ready to be transported back in time at this New Mexico Route 66 diner, with its 1950s decor and mid-century America ...

Bold, bright lettering and a cropped concert image feature on the most influential rock and roll album cover of all-time, ...

Elvis Presley was the original pop star, but even his popularity was finite. Here George Harrison explains why he felt so sad ...

Thirty-six years ago today, one of the most influential folk musicians in the United Kingdom died at the age of 74.

Revisiting comments made by legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon about Elvis Presley, who he considers the "most important ...

Two years ago, I was singing Elvis Presley in a pub. Now I’m on one of the biggest stages in the world singing my own songs' ...

Frankie Lymon's soaring soprano epitomized 1950s pop, but behind the sunny melodies lay a life plagued by racism, trauma, and ...

Musically superb, a faulty book prevents 'Million Dollar Quartet' from being one of the best rock musicals of all time. Four musicians perform as Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and ...

Our 10 photographs from the Chronicle archive - one image for each year of the decade - recall some of what was going on in ...

Scores of people in Dunstable have shared their shock and sadness following the death of popular DJ and 1950s enthusiast, ...