Diane Warren originally wrote Aerosmith's hit tune "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" for Celine Dion.
"I Won't Back Down" is a very personal song for Tom Petty. "I thought it wasn't that good because it was so naked," he said.
At 9:57 Dabid Bowie's "Blackstar" is the longest song ever to reach the Hot 100.
All The Young Dudes "carry the news" because it was intended for a David Bowie concept album where Ziggy Stardust spreads the news in a world with electricity.
"One Week" by Barenaked Ladies was a #1 hit in America - for exactly one week in 1998.
"The Long and Winding Road" became The Beatles' last US #1 song on June 13, 1970.
When Judd Apatow needed under-appreciated rockers for his Knocked Up sequel, he immediately thought of Parker, who just happened to be getting his band The Rumour back together.
When a song describes a wedding, it's rarely something to celebrate - with one big exception.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai were two of Graham's co-writers for some '80s rock classics.
The Def Leppard frontman talks about their "lamentable" hit he never thought of as a single, and why he's juiced by his Mott The Hoople cover band.
One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.
