The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork for the rock and roll songs of the 1960s and the rebellious tunes of the 1970s.

In Hear My Song: Irish Theatre and Popular Song in the 1950s and 1960s – an ambitious and wide-ranging book – Joseph Greenwood's analytical project explores experiences of the kind which ...

This one is about Tommy Edwards, a local singer-songwriter who reached national fame in the 1950s and 1960s and even enjoyed a No. 1 hit in 1958, but whose name now is largely unfamiliar as a ...

Millennials are better at identifying songs made in the 1960s than they are at recognising tunes made today Songs from 1960-1990 are deemed to be more memorable by millenials ...