In 1939, a polka craze swept America thanks to "Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel)."
"Love Is A Battlefield" was written as a ballad, but Pat Benatar's guitarist/husband turned it into an uptempo song.
"Walking In Memphis" isn't so much about Memphis, as it is The Hollywood Cafe in Mississippi, where Marc Cohn encountered an old woman named Murial playing piano.
The drum sound on Buddy Knox's 1957 US #1 hit "Party Doll" was actually made by a cardboard box filled with cotton.
"Uncle John's Band" by the Grateful Dead was the first time the phrase "God Damn" appeared in a commercially-released song.
Katmandu, the capital of Nepal, was the archetype for faraway mysticism when Bob Seger wrote a song about it in 1975.
Some album art was at least "inspired" by others. A look at some very similar covers.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have some rather unusual song titles - see if you can spot the real ones.
Did Rivers Cuomo grow up on a commune? Why did they name their albums after colors? See how well you know your Weezer in this Fact or Fiction.
For songwriters, Johnny represents the American man. He has been angry, cool, magic, a rebel and, of course, marching home.
Tyler talks about his true love: songwriting. How he identifies the beauty in a melody and turns sorrow into art.
Country songs with titles so bizarre they can't possibly be real... or can they?