Bob Dylan was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1970. He didn't love the experience, but a memorable song came from it.

Bob Dylan has written hundreds of songs over his decades-long career, but "Ballad in Plain D" is one he looks back on with regret.

With his hit song “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Billy Joel managed to cover 40 years of history in roughly four minutes, beginning with Harry Truman’s presidency in the late 1940s and concluding with ...