Ronnie Dunn wrote "Boot Scootin' Boogie" before he teamed up with Kix Brooks to form Brooks & Dunn. It was originally recorded by the country group Asleep At The Wheel, but Brooks & Dunn did it themselves when it got its own line dance.
The music video for "You Are A Tourist" by Death Cab For Cutie was done live on the internet, becoming the first live, scripted, single-take music video recorded that way.
Elton John's "Rocket Man" is based on a Ray Bradbury story called The Rocket Man published in 1951.
References to David Bowie, Tom Waits and Allan Ginsburg are peppered into the Bush song "Everything Zen."
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler got the idea for "Money For Nothing" after overhearing delivery men in a New York department store complain about their jobs while watching MTV.
The video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans" features YouTube stars Chris Crocker, The Chocolate Rain Guy, The "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" Banana, and the Star Wars kid.
Songwriters have used cards and card games to make sense of heartache, togetherness, and even Gonorrhea.
How well do you know this shock-rock harbinger who's been publicly executed hundreds of times?
The stories behind "Shine," "December," "The World I Know" and other Collective Soul hits.
'80s music ambassadors Wang Chung pick their top tracks of the decade, explaining what makes each one so special.
Roger reveals the songwriting formula Clive Davis told him, and if "Eight Miles High" is really about drugs.
