"The Night Chicago Died" was written and recorded by the British group Paper Lace. They talk about Al Capone in the song, but got a lot of details wrong - understandable since they wrote it based on gangster movies.
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 hit duet "Somewhere Out There" was written for an animated film about a family of immigrant mice who lose one of their young.
Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" was inspired by the tribes that came together at New York dance clubs.
The first single from the Thriller album was "The Girl Is Mine," chosen over "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" because it was a duet with Paul McCartney and thus guaranteed airplay.
Avril Lavigne said her Goodbye Lullaby track "Darlin" was "probably" the second song she ever wrote. The Canadian composed it when she was an unsigned 15-year-old living in Napanee, Ontario.
The "All I Want" singer went through a long depression, playing some shows when he didn't want to be alive.
A top session musician, Carol played on hundreds of hits by The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Frank Sinatra and many others.
Tyler talks about his true love: songwriting. How he identifies the beauty in a melody and turns sorrow into art.
Are classic songs like "Over The Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in the public domain?
Lots of life lessons in these Eagles lyrics - can you match them to the correct song?
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.