What if 'The Beatles' was just one disc instead of two? We make the hard choices about which twelve songs should make the cut.

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A post-apocalyptic Madrid, a statue of an ancient goddess shedding a single tear and Sergio Ramos singing in a vest. No, this is not some strange fever dream, but rather the new single written and ...

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Chuck Norris isn’t a singer, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t recorded a hit song during his career. “CBS was so excited that they booked me at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth, Texas, on New Year’s Eve to ...

Love is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite things. When she was just 25, she admitted that she had already spent her “whole life tryin’ to put it into words.” From her debut album on, audiences have ...

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