As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and ...

“Sum sum sum sum sumbhavichallo, sumbhavichallo; Bethlehem goshalaya athu sumbhavichallo,”the carolers belted out with gusto.

This Billboard Japan interview explores how getting closer to fans overseas shifted their mindset in some ways and left other ...

The word “yuletide” is a noun that is defined as Christmas and the surrounding days, including all of its festivities. The ...

According to Etymonline, the word “carillon” comes from French, specifically from the Old French word “carignon,” meaning ...

Experts from WordUnscrambler.pro have revealed the UK's most misspelled words - with a surprising term at the top of the list ...

Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Haruki Murakami was in town last week to hear his words set to music and his praises literally sung.

Many alternative rock artists in the 1990s only needed one word for song titles. These days, you need BRAT-style sentence case (“I might say something stupid”) or Coldplay emojis—for which I’ll spare ...

There are a lot of songs that Sheryl Crow is happy to explain. She can tell you all about the upheaval in her life when she penned “Leaving Las Vegas,” and about the election night that sparked “Run ...

We might be a little biased, but Billboard firmly believes music is the best part of the holiday season every year. That includes songs from all time periods, and certainly some of the Christmas canon ...