What do you really want to know about the music artists you love most? American Songwriter has the latest news on popular music’s most fascinating figures, of course. But let’s go deeper. Let’s pick through the inner-workings of a smash hit. Or learn about songs you may think you know well, but most certainly do not know the famous artists who wrote them.
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1969: Rock band "Blind Faith" pose for a portrait in 1969. (L-R): Steve Winwood, Ric Grech, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton. Photo by Bob Seidemann. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
NEW YORK – MARCH 28: Musician Van Morrison plays a Martin acoustic guitar at a Bang Records recording session in the studio on March 28, 1967 in New York, New York. (Photo by PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
NEW YORK – 1969: Singer songwriter Joni Mitchell performs at the Central Park Music Festival in New York, New York in 1969. (Photo by Sherry Rayn Barnett/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
ATLANTA – NOVEMBER 12: John Prine is interviewed live on WRAS-FM at Georgia State College on November 12, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Tom Hill/Getty Images)
English singer Morrissey, of the group the Smiths, Red Wedge Tour, Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, 1/31/1986. During the latter half of the 1980s, the Red Wedge collective organized a series of music and comedy tours throughout the UK in an attempt to mobilize young fans in opposition to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s then-ruling Conservative Party. (Photo by Steve Rapport/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ONTARIO – JULY 05: Robert Plant performs at Budweiser Stage on July 05, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images)
