The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States. But where do the lyrics come from, and what’s the history of the anthem? ‘Oh, say can you see...’, goes ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ ...

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 ...

Safe to say I’m never allowed in that stadium again,” Latin-R&B musician Nezza said after her performance at a Los Angeles ...

First and most obvious, the Star ... Spangled Banner is so difficult to sing is that, strictly speaking, it is NOT A SONG. It’s a POEM disguised as a SONG. When looking at the shape of the ...

The 30-year-old artist chose to sing a translated version amid immigration raids, despite being told to sing the anthem in ...

“The Star Spangled Banner”, a song sung proudly at every Super Bowl, actually originally came from England. The melody to which Francis Scott Key set the lyrics was derived from “To Anacreon ...

The 33-year-old singer returned to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a recent Colorado ... The track includes the lyrics, "Through the years, I'd make mistakes so you wouldn't have to ...

This is where the music directly reflects the content of the lyrics. Hendrix brought the words of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to life by reflecting not just what they might have meant when they ...

He immediately began penning the first verse to the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Key set his lyrics to the then popular tune of the “Anacreontic Song,” the song of an 18th-century gentlemen’s ...

University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor Mark Clague talked about the meaning of the four verses in The Star-Spangled Banner. University of Michigan musicology and American ...