Rod Stewart wrote "Maggie May" about the woman who deflowered him when he was 16.
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.
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.
Elton John's "Rocket Man" is based on a Ray Bradbury story called The Rocket Man published in 1951.
Al Green wrote the lyrics for “Let's Stay Together” in five minutes after Willie Mitchell gave him a rough mix of a tune that he and drummer Al Jackson had developed.
Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?
The guy who brought us "Stacy's Mom" also wrote the Jane Lynch Emmy song and Stephen Colbert's Christmas songs.
Billie Jean, Delilah, Sara, Laura and Sharona - do you know who the girls in the songs really are?
Emilio talks about what it's like to write and perform with the Tower of Power horns, and why every struggling band should have a friend like Huey Lewis.
One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.
