"It's just amazing how easy something like this comes back together when everybody is talented on their own," Billy Thomas tells PEOPLE. "We knew what we had" Tricia Despres is a writer for PEOPLE ...

Atencio, for instance, never would have envisioned himself a songwriter.

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2024. It was a somewhat slow week for new songs, perhaps because a lot of the music industry is at SXSW, but there were more than enough that impressed us.

You know you’ve written an evocative song when people try to tie it into some real-life occurrence. Folks have certainly done that with “Ride Captain Ride”, the massive 1970 hit single by Blues Image.

In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed the origin of The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride.” “We wrote the melody together; you can hear on the record, John’s taking the melody ...

When Xavier "X" Atencio was plucked by Walt Disney in 1965 to be one of his early theme park designers, he was slotted on a number of projects that placed him out of his comfort zone. Atencio, for ...