More than 600,000 people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19 since the pandemic hit this country and the world just over a year ago. NPR is remembering some of those who lost their lives by listening ...

“Sunshine On My Shoulders” may not have been the massive hit it became if not for another woman’s heartbreaking tragedy. The song was used in a TV movie called Sunshine, about a woman named Lyn Helton ...

Pop music can contain hidden depths. Some of the biggest, cheesiest songs of the early '70s sound like luxe commercial jingles, but they're about death, or depression, or at the very least morning sex ...