Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1974, a tragedy-inspired pop song beat a rival band to the top spot on the Billboard charts, causing a commotion with its teary ...

The last thought on anybody's mind who was running from flying bullets the day of the courthouse shooting was that the whole event would spawn a music and literary bonanza. But that's what happened.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tragedy songs were commonplace in the early to mid-1970s. Who can forget Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods’ war-themed song, “Billy ...

DAMASCUS, Va. — An Abingdon family physician, who helped those you lost everything in Damascus since Helene, wrote a song named after the storm. Music has always been in Dr. Handy’s blood. “I would go ...

Tragedy songs were commonplace in the early to mid-1970s. Who can forget Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods’ war-themed song, “Billy Don’t Be a Hero,” and David Geddes’teen tragedy hit “Run Joey Run?” The ...