After Cher revived "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" in 1990, Salt-N-Pepa released "Shoop" and Whitney Houston had a #1 hit with "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)."
Dan Tyminski, the singer on Avicii's "Hey Brother" is the same guy who sang lead vocal on "A Man Of Constant Sorrow" in the movie O’ Brother, Where Art Thou.
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1994, beating out Neil Young's "Philadelphia," which was also written for the movie Philadelphia.
Drake's "One Dance" was the first ever song to rack up one billion streams on Spotify.
The electronic instruments in "Atomic Dog" represent the coming computer age, which is balanced by the instinctual dog, who barks and pants throughout the song.
"November Rain" by Guns N' Roses has a literary influence: The lyric is based on a story called Without You by Del James.
These Three famous songs actually describe how they were written - late into the evening.
Songs where something goes horribly wrong (literally or metaphorically), and help is needed right away.
How did The Edge get his name? Did they name a song after a Tolkien book? And who is "Angel of Harlem" about?
Are classic songs like "Over The Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in the public domain?
If counterpoint and polyrhythms are your thing, you might love these guys. Even by Progressive Rock standards, they were one of the most intricate bands of the '70s. Then their lead singer gave us Bon Jovi.
Not everyone can be a superhero, but that hasn't stopped generations of musicians from trying to be Superman.
