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After a wait of five years and six months, on Dec. 3, 2025, Joyce Farrar Fisher, age 94, finally joined the love of her life, John “Archie” Fisher, in Heaven. Born in the Town of Portland, New York, ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures... D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. Maybe you read ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

A previous version of this story included inaccurate birth years for Ed Askew, Rich Hall and Jonathan Mayers. Askew was born in 1940. Hall was born in 1976. Mayers was born in 1974.