"Magic" was the first word to serve as both the title of a #1 hit (Olivia Newton-John's 1980 tune "Magic") and the name of an artist behind a chart-topping song (Magic!'s 2014 hit "Rude").
Billy Joel is surprised that "Piano Man" is so successful. He called it "an old, long song about a guy at a depressing piano bar."
Snap! were two German producers. When they needed a rapper, they found one on the American army base there and had him rap on "The Power."
Steely Dan's engineer, Roger Nichols, built one of the first drum machines, which they used on "Hey Nineteen."
Paul McCartney wrote "Ebony and Ivory," his duet with Stevie Wonder, after a tiff with his wife Linda. "It was like, 'Why can't we get it together- our piano can,'" he explained.
R.E.M. got the title "Shiny Happy People" from a Chinese propaganda poster.
Michelle Branch talks about "Everywhere," "The Game Of Love," and her run-in with a Christian broadcasting network.
The "All I Want" singer went through a long depression, playing some shows when he didn't want to be alive.
Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?
When singers started spoofing their own songs on Sesame Street, the results were both educational and hilarious - here are the best of them.
When a waitress wouldn't take him home, Jack wrote what would become one of the Eagles most enduring hits.
