Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" is based on the song "It's A Hard Knock Life" from the Broadway play Annie.
John Fogerty was not born on the bayou - he's from Berkeley, California. He got the idea for the song when CCR was on tour in Louisiana.
Ozzy Osbourne's "Shot In The Dark" is titled after a Pink Panther movie.
New Order took the title for "Blue Monday" from an illustration, which read "Goodbye Blue Monday," in the Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast Of Champions. The image referred to the invention of the washing machine improving housewives' lives.
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" was Michael Jaskson's attack on the tabloid press: "They eat off of you, you're a vegetable."
Jack White titled "Seven Nation Army" after how he would mispronounce "Salvation Army" when he was little.
His keyboard work helped define the Muscle Shoals sound and make him an integral part of many Neil Young recordings. Spooner is also an accomplished songwriter, whose hits include "I'm Your Puppet" and "Cry Like A Baby."
As Procol Harum's lyricist, Keith wrote the words to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." We delve into that song and find out how you can form a band when you don't sing or play an instrument.
Stage urinals, flute devices, and the real Aqualung in this Fact or Fiction.
When a song describes a wedding, it's rarely something to celebrate - with one big exception.
One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.
Just how much did these monsters of rock dabble in the occult?
