'I'll Be There for You' bucked the tide at a time when execs were arguing songs had to go, Jon Burlingame recounts in an excerpt from his new book, 'Music for Prime Time' Variety writer Jon Burlingame ...

No one told them the song was gonna blow up this way. The Rembrandts were putting finishing touches on their third album, “L.P.,” when a sidestep into television drastically altered their course in ...

“When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month/ Or even your year, but/ I’ll be there for you.” It’s safe to say that, for many, those 25-year-old lyrics to the “Friends” theme song have never ...

America went five long months without being about to bingewatch Friends. It was a dark era between when the series left Netflix forever and resurfaced on HBO Max, which was finally made available this ...

Every ‘Friends‘ fan knows the feeling: the second those lyrics drop, life instantly feels a little less chaotic. No matter ...

From the most fervent fans of the show to people who have never seen an episode, it seems like everyone in the world knows the iconic Friends theme song. “I’ll Be There for You” was recorded by The ...

Variety writer Jon Burlingame’s new book, “Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring,” is published today. The product of 35 years of research and more than 450 ...