Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1950s and 60s.

Charting the development of pop music from the 1950s to the present, with a fascinating event for every day of the year, a new book reveals the quirks of musical history… ...

The 1950s saw some of the biggest stars in country music getting their start. Here are four that deserve more modern recognition.

BBC Select goes inside a modest and unassuming 1950s house in Liverpool, once the childhood residence of Sir Paul McCartney, ...

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, ingenious Russians began recording banned bootlegged jazz, boogie woogie and rock ‘n’ roll on exposed X-ray ...

Modern songs are simpler now than in the 1950s thanks to three musical revolutions that have dumbed down melodies, a study has found. Madeline Hamilton, a PhD student at Queen Mary University of ...