Whether you lived through the year or just want to find out what you missed, here are 20 music milestones from 1976.

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The article flashes back to Nelson’s early days as a young husband and father in the 1950s, recounting his time washing dishes, trimming trees, pumping gas, tooling saddles and going door to door ...

"I'm in pretty good shape, physically," Willie told 'The New Yorker' in a new interview Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and he’s worked at PEOPLE since 2022 ...

Willie Nelson, and specifically his life on the road, is the focus of a new opus profile in The New Yorker. The highlights are many, but Bob Dylan’s attempt to explain the appeal of Nelson stands ...

After more than seven decades in music, you might think Willie Nelson has heard — and sung — it all. But even now, at 92, there are still a few songs that get to him every time. The country legend was ...

Willie Nelson, notorious outlaw, country-music icon and current champion of Not Being Dead, has once again had to reassure the internet that he is, in fact, still breathing. The 92-year-old Texan ...

Country musician Vince Gill received the 2025 CMA Willie Nelson lifetime achievement award. Gill is a 68-year-old singer-songwriter with 20 albums and 45 charted singles over his 50-year career. He ...

If the stores filled with twinkling lights and Christmas displays still haven’t exactly moved you into the holiday spirit, Willie Nelson’s new song might just do the trick. He’s 92 now, which feels ...

HOUSTON — Music legend Willie Nelson lent his voice and his heart to a cause close to millions on Wednesday, joining MD Anderson Cancer Center as it launched a $2.5 billion philanthropic campaign to ...

“Shooting this campaign with Willie Nelson was an incredible honor and something I’d dreamed of since my earliest days with Canada Goose,” explains Ackermann of working with the country icon. By Chris ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson both earn Grammy nominations for ...