Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort ...

Susan Biddle / The Washington Post / Getty Images The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the lyrics to our national anthem in 1814—its appearance above Fort ...

Weeks after the release of 'Ridin',' his third studio album, Cuco was invited to sing the national anthem at Doddger Stadium.

FORGET the mighty Tottenham Hotspur, last night North London belonged to Beyonce. She kicked off her run of six shows in the ...

Actor, musician and multi-entertainer Charles “Chip” Esten strummed his guitar onto the CMA Fest stage to start the Thursday ...

The US superstar’s fans, complete with glittery boots and ... Beyonce smashes through The Star- Spangled Banner into Freedom, using the stage as her catwalk, before ripping into a Ya Ya mash ...

The famous Star-Spangled Banner—today one of the greatest treasures ... Even then, critics protested that the lyrics, lengthy and ornate, were too unfamiliar to much of the public.

The June 22 show will include Piaf’s most popular song, “La Vie En Rose,” which sold 1 million discs in the U.S. when ...

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming From inauguration ...

Nui Ba Den, South Vietnam, Oct. 16, 1969: The U.S. flag flies from the top of the radar tower atop Black Virgin Mountain (Nui ...

CAMARILLO, Calif.-While Dana Isabel Joaquin Juat sang the Star Spangled Banner, Sarah Ysordia signed it. Ysordia lost her sight and hearing due to Usher Syndrome as a child, but that didn't stop ...