Ages ago, I traveled overland from Europe to Nepal: the Orient Express train from Munich to Istanbul, a boat through the ...

With Memorial Day this week, I felt it appropriate to write something patriotic in honor of those who gave their last full measure of devotion to our nation.

Fresh off his Voice Season 27 win this week, David performed “The Star Spangled-Banner” before the Florida Panthers defeated ...

In the summer of 1969, as the Vietnam War raged, Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the Woodstock  stage and bent the US national anthem into a wail of anguish. His electric guitar screeched  bombs and ...

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’. But what are the words to the rest of the US national anthem?

Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner." In 1940, the chapel at Buckingham Palace was destroyed in the German Blitz on London. The palace came under attack nine times ...

When asked about her favorite part of performing the Star-Spangled Banner, Berke pointed to the ... borrowed the same word his songstress daughter used to describe performing: “surreal.” ...

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 ...

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Irish native who switched from the music industry to the world of sport moving from Universal Music to AS in 2017. A keen runner, soccer player and now discovering the world's fastest growing ...

This mix of the British composer’s music and the US lawyer’s lyrics became known as The Star-Spangled Banner and was adopted officially by the US Navy in 1889, the President in 1916 and as America’s ...

Set to music by 1931, Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” became the ... But, if the lyrics were written in 2023 or hereafter, the words may reflect a different time, crossing over the digital ...