"Pink Cadillac" was a B-side for Bruce Springsteen in 1984, but after Aretha Franklin sang about pink Cadillacs on "Freeway Of Love" the following year, Natalie Cole covered the song and had a hit with it in 1988.
When Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" climbed to the top of the UK singles chart in its 19th week, the song broke the record for the slowest continual ascent to #1.
Before she was famous, Lady Gaga was a staff songwriter, and wrote the song "Quicksand," which Britney Spears recorded in 2008.
When "Believe" hit #1 in America, it made Cher, age 52, the oldest woman ever to top the chart.
"Closing Time" by Semisonic was written by the lead singer when his wife was pregnant. Some of the lyrics are about being born.
On the "schizoid element" of his lyrics, and a famous line from "Everything Zen."
The Stooges guitarist (and producer of the Kill City album) talks about those early recordings and what really happened with David Bowie.
The Creed lead singer reveals the "ego and self-fulfillment" he now sees in one of the band's biggest hits.
In the name of song explanation, Al talks about scoring heroin for William Burroughs, and that's not even the most shocking story in this one.
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."
Songs where something goes horribly wrong (literally or metaphorically), and help is needed right away.
