Old songs trigger old memories. “The Great Pretender” did just that for me. The occasion was a dance party at a classmate’s home. I was 16 years old that day. I’d just broken up with a girl who’d been ...

I’m lonely but no one can tell. — The Platters, “The Great Pretender,” November, 1955 It was a monumental bluff, as huge as Mount Rushmore, seemingly impervious to destruction, where he imagined ...

If you’re nostalgic for the happy days of sock hops, tail-fin cars and milkshakes at the drugstore counter with your sweetie, then the Clemens Center is where you want to be on Friday night. The ...

BOSTON -- Herb Reed, the last surviving original member of 1950s vocal group the Platters who sang on hits like "Only You" and "The Great Pretender," has died. He was 83. Reed died on Monday in a ...

In 1987, legendary Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury released his cover of “The Great Pretender,” a 1955 song performed by The Platters about pretending to be perfectly fine and happy after ...

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