Rod Stewart wrote "Maggie May" about the woman who deflowered him when he was 16.
The song "Knock On Wood" was confusing to UK listeners because the saying there is "Touch Wood."
The title of the Metallica song "Ride The Lightning" came from a line in the Stephen King book The Stand where a guy is about to be executed.
"The Long and Winding Road" became The Beatles' last US #1 song on June 13, 1970.
16-tear-old Lorde wrote the lyrics to "Royals" at home in just half an hour. She was inspired by the "ridiculous, unrelatable, unattainable opulence" that runs through such albums as Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die.
The song "Grease," sung by Frankie Valli in the 1978 movie, was written by Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees.
Into the vaults for Bruce Pollock's 1984 conversation with the esteemed bluesman. Hooker talks about transforming a Tony Bennett classic and why you don't have to be sad and lonely to write the blues.
Our chat with Barney Hoskyns, who covers the wild years of Woodstock - the town, not the festival - in his book Small Town Talk.
The original voice of Snap! this story is filled with angry drag queens, video impersonators and Chaka Khan.
Rudolf, Bob Dylan and the Singing Dogs all show up in this Fact or Fiction for seasonal favorites.
Roger reveals the songwriting formula Clive Davis told him, and if "Eight Miles High" is really about drugs.
