The chant in the Bruno Mars/Rosé hit "APT" is "apateu," the Korean word for apartment. It's named after a Korean drinking game called "Apartment" that Rosé told Bruno about.
"Mercedes Boy" by Pebbles is about a real guy she fell in love with - they both drove Mercedes when she wrote it.
"Human" by The Killers was the most streamed song on Spotify in 2008, the year that the music streaming service was launched.
Steely Dan's engineer, Roger Nichols, built one of the first drum machines, which they used on "Hey Nineteen."
Cheap Trick hated the ballad "The Flame" but recorded it because they needed a hit, and the song delivered, going to #1.
The melody to "Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream, but the lyrics he had to write consciously. His first attempt at the title was "Scrabble Eggs."
Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump.
Kristian talks songwriting technique, like how the chorus should redefine the story, and how to write a song backwards.
The longtime Eagle talks about soaring back to his solo career, and what he learned about songwriting in the group.
Did this Eagle come up with the term "Parrothead"? And what is it like playing "Hotel California" for the gazillionth time?
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.
These overtly religious songs crossed over to the pop charts, despite resistance from fans, and in many cases, churches.