Petula Clark was heckled by her own audience — and then John Lennon gave her some obscene advice. By accident, the experience helped her become part of one of John’s most significant solo songs.

Most great music inspires rumors and speculation. Some have claimed that Petula Clark’s “Downtown” was offered to a massive 1960s band. Here is what Clark’s songwriter had to say.

The girlfriend of a suicide bomber who detonated his RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day alerted police he was making explosives inside the vehicle more than a year before the attack, police ...