Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

Then he started to play “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Many guitar heroes have ... the sound of a car spinning out on the highway. The first notes emerged from within that swirl of noise, as ...

The United States is a country that sings its national anthem a lot relative to other countries, and no performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is bigger than the one that takes place before the ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney, slaveholder and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry ...

Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”. Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, therefore we should not honor his poem.