"Mother" by Danzig is about censorship, specifically the Parents Music Resource Center, which pushed record labels to put warning stickers on albums with explicit lyrics.
Adele's "Someone Like You" is the first song with just piano and voice to hit #1 in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, which started in 1958.
Tim McGraw recorded "Live Like You Were Dying" just two weeks after his own father passed away.
"Rio" by Duran Duran is a metaphor for America, where the band was trying to break through.
Chrissie Hynde got the phrase "Brass In Pocket" from a Northern England slang term meaning you had some money, "brass" meaning coins.
"Personal Jesus," a song about "being a Jesus for somebody else," was inspired by Elvis and Priscilla Presley.
The outlaw country icon talks about the spiritual element of his songwriting and his Bob Dylan mention.
Billie Jean, Delilah, Sara, Laura and Sharona - do you know who the girls in the songs really are?
Country songs with titles so bizarre they can't possibly be real... or can they?
Did they really trade their guitarist to The Doobie Brothers? Are they named after something naughty? And what's up with the band name?
Famous songs that lent their titles - and in some cases storylines - to movies.
When you have a song called "Fire," it's tempting to set one - these guys did.