The Split Enz song "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" is about the journey explorers made from Europe to colonize Australia and New Zealand, where the band is from.
The CCR song "Run Through the Jungle" is about gun control.
The woman "singing" in the video for Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam" didn't speak English. She was used just for her look, and also appeared on the album cover.
The phrase "Hasta la vista, baby" was popularized in the 1987 Jody Watley song "Looking For A New Love," 4 years before Arnold Schwarzenegger said it in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Elton John had a huge hit duetting with Kiki Dee on "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," but he's also performed it with RuPaul and Miss Piggy.
"Babylon," in David Gray's song, refers to London, which was once known as the "modern-day Babylon."
The men of Sparks on their album Hippopotamus, and how Morrissey handled it when they suggested he lighten up.
Into the vaults for this talk with Bolton from the '80s when he was a focused on writing songs for other artists.
The "A Thousand Miles" singer on what she thinks of her song being used in White Chicks and how she captured a song from a dream.
The outlaw country icon talks about the spiritual element of his songwriting and his Bob Dylan mention.
Rosanne talks about the journey that inspired her songs on her album The River & the Thread, including a stop at the Tallahatchie Bridge.
The top chant artist in the Western world, Krishna Das talks about how these Hindu mantras compare to Christian worship songs.