Ninety-nine point nine per cent of pop and rock music is vocal, but what of the minuscule remaining fragment? Why do people write instrumentals and, just as importantly, should they bother? The list ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A joyful 1973 instrumental by The Allman Brothers Band is getting fresh praise more than five decades later. “Jessica,” the bright ...

The rock instrumental has the unenviable task of grasping the listener's attention, and then keeping it, without relying on words and catchy choruses to do so. Done poorly, the tune feels repetitive ...

Instrumentals, solos, and breaks are at the heart of rock music in all its iterations. And some instrumental moments are so legendary and so good that they are remembered for decades. Let’s look at ...

From the late 1950s to the late 1970s, rock ‘n’ rollers were taking the formula for what they already knew a six-string electric could do and pushing the boundaries one notch further. Musicians were ...

This song choice is not out of the blue. "Out of the Blue" by George Harrison was named the greatest classical rock instrumental song. Recorded on July 2, 1970, the 11-minute tune is an improvised ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Pipeline” was a surf rock instrumental recorded by The Chantays in 1962. It was originally called “Liberty’s Whip” after the 1962 ...

A joyful 1973 instrumental by The Allman Brothers Band is getting fresh praise more than five decades later. “Jessica,” the bright and breezy track from the band’s Brothers and Sisters album, has been ...

While Link Wray's The Rumble, of 1958, is often cited as the first tune without vocals featuring distorted guitar, the rock instrumental came into its own during the early 1970s. Partially inspired by ...