Salt's "mighty good man" in the Salt-N-Pepa "Whatta Man" video is played by Tupac Shakur.
In the 1999 Destiny's Child song "Bug A Boo," they complain about a guy who bugs them on MCI, AOL, and their pagers.
Mike Nesmith wrote Linda Ronstadt's first hit, "Different Drum," before he joined The Monkees. He played an intentionally bad version of it on the show.
"Hangin' Tough" came at the peak of New Kids On The Block mania (1988). Their writer/producer Maurice Starr wrote it about the struggles the band faced early on. It was a #1 hit in both America and the UK.
Yoko Ono has always denied requests to cover "Imagine" with the line "no religion, too" omitted or changed.
"Fight The Power" was written for the Spike Lee movie Do The Right Thing. It opens the film and serves as the motif.
"Great songwriters don't necessarily have hit songs," says Chris. He's written a bunch, but his fans are more interested in the intricate jams.
How did The Edge get his name? Did they name a song after a Tolkien book? And who is "Angel of Harlem" about?
In this quiz, spot the artist who put Romeo into a song lyric.
Lita talks about how they wrote songs in The Runaways, and how she feels about her biggest hit being written by somebody else.
Doors expert Jim Cherry, author of The Doors Examined, talks about some of their defining songs and exposes some Jim Morrison myths.
With his X-wife Exene, John fronts the band X and writes their songs.