Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on "Beat It" as a favor to Quincy Jones, who produced the album.
The Bryan Adams song "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" was almost rejected for the movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves because it didn't sound medieval enough.
The title of Florence + the Machine's "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" was inspired by the Los Angeles skyline.
In the song "God," Tori Amos makes the point that if there's God, there must also be a Goddess because there are no male-only species.
Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" opens with the South African female singer Letta Mbulu saying the Swahili phrase "Naku penda piya-naku taka piya-mpenziwe." There was some geographic liberty here, as Swahili is not spoken in the West African nation of Liberia.
The stories behind "Shine," "December," "The World I Know" and other Collective Soul hits.
When you have a song called "Fire," it's tempting to set one - these guys did.
His song "Into The Night" is one of the most-played of all time. For Benny, it took him to hell and back.
Outrageously gifted and just plain outrageous, Millie is an R&B and Rap innovator.
Wes Edwards takes us behind the scenes of videos he shot for Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley and Chase Bryant. The train was real - the airplane was not.