Songwriters have a important and unique job. They are often times behind the scenes composing hit songs sung by legendary artists and music for famous movie soundtracks.
You remember 2007. We were at war in Iraq. Britney Spears shaved her head. The Sopranos ended. Mad Men premiered. And R.E.M. gave its last public performance at its Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. That last item changed on Thursday…
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The Songwriters Hall of Fame, which staged its annual awards ceremony on Thursday night, is an institution and an event unlike any other in the music industry, even though many of its elements are hardly unique and many things about it…
A comet must have landed at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The members of R.E.M. had joked only hours before it would take “a comet” to get the band to perform together one last time. Yet there they were, reunited…
Mark James, a genre-defying and Grammy Award-winning songwriter whose hits included “Suspicious Minds,” “Hooked on a Feeling” and “Always on My Mind,” died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday. He was 83.
A comet must have landed at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The members of R.E.M. had joked only hours before it would take “a comet” to get the band to perform together one last time. Yet there they were, reunited…
Laurent Hubert is CEO of Kobalt Music, one of the world’s largest music publishers. Variety welcomes responsible comment — contact music@variety.com. As the CEO of Kobalt, the largest organization focused solely on songwriters, I felt that…
The music industry celebrated the induction of Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley into the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame. The glamorous gala, which was conducted in New York City, marks a significant milestone in the prestigious career of…