Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and an Irish song tradition inspired Paul McCartney on The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Paul used many of his literary and musical favorites in his songs. In The Lyrics ...

Imagine a vaudeville skit that incorporates a generous helping of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, some set to music, and uses a lighthearted storyline to connect them. That’s “Sonnets, Songs and Sorry ...

John Lewis have unveiled their Christmas advert for 2024, and with it the featured song – Richard Ashcroft’s acoustic recording of “Sonnet”, the 1998 single by his band The Verve. This year’s feature ...

Dana Walden was the cool, young keyboard-vocalist for the new rhythm-and-blues band, Champaign, named for their home city in Illinois. Walden’s love-sonnet song to his wife, “How ‘Bout Us,” gets ...

Only a truly great songwriter knows (intuitively) that great poetry contains its own intrinsic musicality, so in a sense, Seven Sonnets & A Song is almost an inevitable entry in Paul Kelly's ...

William Shakespeare may have died 400 years ago, but his work is still relevant in modern pop culture - so relevant, in fact, that Florence Welch has covered one of his sonnets in a brand new song.

As a teenager, Björk sang in Reykjavík’s Hamrahlíð Choir, a program that’s been running for many years. Later in her career, Björk worked with that choir, collaborating with them on her 2017 album ...