Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 2, 1974, Terry Jacks reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with “Seasons in the Sun,” a soft-rock pop phenomenon ...

A song starts out as a dark, sneering joke. A dying man sings goodbye to the world -- his friends, his pastor, his wife. But as he sings goodbye, he also sings that he knows about his wife's affair ...

Tragedy songs were commonplace in the early to mid-1970s. Who can forget Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods’ war-themed song, “Billy Don’t Be a Hero,” and David Geddes’teen tragedy hit “Run Joey Run?” The ...

On March 2, 1974, Terry Jacks reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with “Seasons in the Sun,” a soft-rock pop phenomenon that didn’t just become a hit, it became a cultural moment. In “The ...