But songs about drinking never seem to go out of style. Take the roughly 250-year-old "Three Nights Drunk," a song about the tricks an adulterous wife plays on her inebriated husband.

Once largely confined to insular networks, contemporary Christian music is having a breakthrough moment on the pop charts with artists like Brandon Lake and Forrest Frank.

Sting channeled the Police at his Arizona Financial Theatre concert in Phoenix, with songs as essential as "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle." ...

I was the smug school gate mum that everyone hated. To this day, other women cross the street to avoid me. I now fear I'm slipping back into my old ways: RACHEL HALLIWELL ...