The Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs of All Time:
Historical and Cultural Context

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Mr. Costello

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Lakewood City Schools
Lakewood Public Library

The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs

Click on the title to find information on your artist and the song.

Lyrics On Demand
www.lyricsondemand.com

This site has a fairly large collection of lyrics. Unfortunately, the information on this site is not uniformly arranged, (i.e. an artist like Chuck Berry is listed under “C” not “B”) therefore, try looking for your artist in different places if you’re not at first successful.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
www.rockhall.com/

This site contains information about only those artists who have been formally inducted into the Rock Hall.

History Channel Timeline
www.history.com/wt.do

Locate your year and the site will give you a number of important historical and cultural events that happened!

20th Century Links @ Yahoo
dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/

This Yahoo directory is a comprehensive list of sites that deal specifically with the 20th Century.

Decades

1950s
www.lkwdpl.org/lhs/fifties/

1960s
www.1960sflashback.com/

1970s
www.1970sflashback.com/

1980s
www.1980sflashback.com

1990s
www.1990sflashback.com