Category Archives: Classic Hits Music News

Dexter Wansel, the keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer whose work helped define the Sound of Philadelphia, has died at 75. His son, producer Andrew Pop Wansel, announced the news in a soci...

Billboard chart data shows Michael Jackson's "Chicago" has entered the Hot 100 for the first time, giving the late pop star another posthumous chart moment more than a decade after the song was offici...

Ronald LaPread, a co-founder and former bassist of the Commodores, has died at 75. In a public social media post on Saturday, his daughter, Soraya LaPread, announced his death and shared a personal tr...

Peter Gabriel has released A Hard Lesson, a new single timed to the blue moon on May 31, 2026. The track arrives as the Bright-Side Mix and offers another preview of his forthcoming album o\i. In the ...

Frankie Valli has canceled the remaining 2026 dates on the Four Seasons' farewell tour, bringing the final stretch of shows to an early close. In a statement announcing the change, Valli said he is ta...

Michael Jackson's catalog is seeing renewed chart activity following the premiere of Michael, the biopic centered on his life and career. A newly released Top Movie Songs update shows four tracks conn...

David May, a two-time Grammy-winning producer and longtime music executive, has died at 68. A notice confirmed that May died April 13 in Nashville, where he had been living after decades of work acros...

The Freedom 250 concert lineup in Washington, D.C., has become more complicated after new statements clarified who is, and is not, connected to the Milli Vanilli name at the event. Organizers listed F...

Paul McCartney has shared a rare detail about Prince's private archive, saying the late musician once recorded a version of The Beatles' The Long and Winding Road that has never been released. During ...

Glen Matlock is putting his own Sex Pistols story back in focus with I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol, a new autobiographical documentary based on his well-known 1990s memoir of the same name. The film arri...