Last year, on November 8, the world lost one of the pop music icons of the late 1960s and early 1970s — Ricky Shayne, who ...

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

Some of the best songs of 2025 sounded explosive, too, though a great number of catchy songs were rendered in more muted, ...