Music Lyrics

LONDON — Christie’s auction house has sold John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to “Give Peace a Chance” for $833,654.

The homophobic lyrics of several Jamaican reggae musicians has moved the German government to consider blacklisting them and restrict their sales and distribution.

I fainted one Sunday morning When I least expected it. I fell hard, like a soursop fruit, onto a sewer grate. Is it my blood pressure? Or has my bilirubin level gone up?

With her dazzling looks and saucy lyrics about smooching women, it’s tough thinking of Katy Perry as a geek.

TV Academy voters are having fun with the best original music and lyrics category.

While others ponder why certain shows like Greys Anatomy were mostly ignored by Emmy voters (could it be the writing?), lost in the Emmy nominations Thursday was the category for best original music and lyrics. Among the nominees is Sarah Silverman, for the joke song she performed on The Jimmy Kimmel Show about having, er, relations with Matt Damon.

Pardon the jaded adult inside us (especially because he’s hungry and hasn’t napped in a while), but generally, the paradox of pop stars reworking their adult-themed lyrics for Sesame Street ’s preternaturally peppy musical performances comes off a tad creepy to anyone over 13 months. Of course, a built-in bias leads us to be relatively less appalled by Feist’s reworking of “1234″ (which has …

“Dont it always seem to go. That you don’t know what youve got til’ it’s gone The Joni Mitchell lyrics to Big Yellow Taxi came to mind as I read today’s announcement from the Department of State.

Michael Moorcock?s fantasy hero Elric is a kind of anti-Conan: he is a thin, longhaired albino with a darkly cynical worldview.

Come see our multiple Tony winning musical, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum! Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondeheim and starring the NST entourage of comedians and gorgeous girls. Directed by Bill Raiten, it’s fun for the whole family.