Stars including Kylie Minogue, Take That and Mariah Carey are recording REM's Everybody Hurts as a charity single for Haiti. But what is the original song about, and why is it associated with suicide?

Once upon a time, there was a slip of a song, a soft statement of directness, tucked into the first side of a strange, swampy album. Sitting between a single about snakes and a mournful instrumental, ...

The pop divas nailed the performance of an iconic song with a renewed resonance for modern listeners. Pink and Kelly Clarkson seem to know how we’re feeling. This has been a year -- especially the ...

Pink and Kelly Clarkson seem to know how we’re feeling. This has been a year -- especially the last few months -- marked by a seemingly unending torrent of bad news, from natural disasters to a ...