Manhattan has always hogged the limelight for live music in New York City. Bob Dylan played his first acoustic gig at Café Wha? in Greenwich Village; Marvin Gaye shot to fame at the Apollo Theater in Harlem; Miles Davis made jazz history at Birdland in the Theater District; and Talking Heads inspired a thousand future bands at CBGB on Bowery.

As a Brit in Disneyland, you can't help but feel a little ashamed of yourself. Every fleck of cynicism shows up like dandruff under a UV light. There are fifty thousand "caste members" here

With the new football season kicking off this week, Edmund Vallance takes a tour around the life of style guru, global icon and - yes - England captain, David Beckham.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" celebrates its bicentenary this month. The lyrics of the national anthem of the United States were written by Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and amateur poet, after he witnessed the British defeat at the Battle of Baltimore in September 1814. There have been some notable interpretations since then: Jimi Hendrix's feedback rendition at Woodstock in 1969; Marvin Gaye's soul adaptation at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game; and Aretha Franklin's gospel version at the 2006 Super Bowl.

Tulsa Rocks! How a Massive Music Scene has Brought Downtown Back to Life. “Today,” he says, “I’m going to teach you the boom-chack beat.”. I’m sitting at an electronic drum kit at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa’s Brady Arts District. Gawping at the video screen, and following Ringo’s instructions to the letter, I find that the boom-chack beat is actually pretty simple to follow.