Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling” is one of the most famous classic rock one-hit wonders of the 1970s. Notably, Blue Swede was not the first act to record the song. In addition, the writer of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark James, the famed songwriter behind hits including "Always on My Mind," "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Suspicious Minds," died ...

The songwriter's music was recorded by Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in The New ...

While it's safe to say that just about every band probably hopes to have more than one chart-topping hit over the course of their career, the truth is that even one massively successful song can ...

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Mark James, who wrote or co-wrote “Hooked on a Feeling,” “Always on My Mind,” “Suspicious Minds” and more, has died at age 83. James, a Houston native, died June 8 at ...

Mark James, a songwriter who's responsible for some truly iconic hits, has died. The Houston Chronicle reports that James passed away at his Nashville home on Saturday. No cause of death has been ...