Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938." Amazingly, almost every song in this collection commemorates (if that's the right word) something terrible that actually happened, each tune an ...

Disaster songs also cropped up in later decades. The death of actress Marilyn Monroe in 1962 prompted “The Ballad of Marilyn Monroe.” A major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara in 1969 ...

This 3xCD box set containing songs ripped from the headlines of the day is packed with death, ... Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938. Various Artists. 2007. 7.2. By Joshua Klein. Label ...

Pop sensation Beyoncé is under fire for using a six-second audio clip from the 1986 Challenger disaster in a song on her latest album. Skip to content. NOWCAST News 9 Daybreak.

The song's lyrics continue through the morning's events, up until the actual disaster itself. "Grey graffiti sprayed across the sky. Fall like streamers, eighteen miles high," Sharp sings.

The shock was felt around the world after the April 15, 1912, sinking of the Titanic. "Many hearts are filled with anguish and with pain." Everyone had heard it was indestructible. So many loved ...

Pop sensation Beyoncé is under fire for using a six-second audio clip from the 1986 Challenger disaster in a song on her latest album. Skip to content. NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 11.

Beyoncé's at the center of a huge online upset after her use of an audio clip from the space shuttle Challenger disaster angered families of the astronauts who died. In the clip that opens her ...

The song opens with a six-second audio sample from Jan. 28, 1986, of now-retired NASA public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt saying, “Flight controllers here looking very carefully at the ...

Former NASA astronauts and their family members are calling Beyonce “insensitive” for using audio from the space shuttle Challenger explosion in her new song, “XO,” off her surprise, self ...

Some of those closest to the 1986 Challenger disaster are speaking out against Beyoncé, after the songstress included an audio clip from the time of the shuttle’s explosion in her new pop song ...