The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to ...
The music publisher points out some key flaws in a lawsuit that looks to establish that "Happy Birthday" belongs to all. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large With the English language’s most ...
Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.! In 1981, Stevie Wonder composed his hit song HAPPY BIRTHDAY, in which he pondered: "I just never understood How a man who died for good Could not have a day ...