You’ve done a great job if you’ve written a song that still holds meaning and immediacy a half-century down the road. If you’ve managed that feat at the tender age of 19, you’re really ahead of the ...

When it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on Sept. 25, 1965, “Eve of Destruction” was a pop song like no other. With its incendiary lyrics—“You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’…and ...

In September 1965, something quite unexpected — you might even say shocking — happened on the American pop-music charts. Somehow, among such catchy nuggets of ear candy as “I Got You Babe,” “Hang On ...