Forty years ago, two friends wrote a song in a London flat that would end up being covered by Annie Lennox and win a Grammy Award. Musicians Joe Hughes and David Freeman were in Muswell Hill, north ...

Sometimes, a solid rock song just needs to have its production stripped down and its instrumentation broken down into basic parts to really shine. Plenty of rock stars have performed “unplugged” ...

Perhaps the best way to know that a song is well written is to strip it down to its most natural and intimate form. If a song can elicit an emotional response from a listener with simply the artist’s ...