From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples in pop. In 19 cases of chicken and ...

As of writing this, it will have been 17 years since Billy Joel released new music, nearly two decades since the prolific singer/songwriter has given his deep fanbase something new. Oh, he's been ...

Their first album, 2006’s “Wind-Up Canary,” was the work of a promising 21-year-old classically trained singer-songwriter ...

Liberace (pronounced Liber-ah-chee) is a piano player who dropped his given names because “Paderewski did not achieve worldwide fame until after he dropped his.”* The trick took: at 33, Milwaukee-born ...

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

"I hope when a producer loads this piano sound, they’ll feel connected to the music that inspired it," Legend said.