The '60s hit "Then He Kissed Me" covered by The Beach Boys as "Then I Kissed Her."
The Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill" is about making a deal with God to switch lives with your partner so there would be no more misunderstandings.
Iggy Pop wrote "Lust For Life" with David Bowie, who came up with the music on a ukulele.
The You Me at Six song "The Dilemma" got its title from the Vince Vaughn movie of the same name.
The Spacehog song "In The Meantime" samples an obscure recording of telephone noise, which is used at the beginning of the song.
"St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" was not written for the movie, but for Rick Hanson, a wheelchair athlete whose 1985 "Man In Motion" tour logged 24,856 miles on his wheelchair in 34 countries while raising $26 million for spinal cord research.
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.
The leader of the Modern A Cappella movement talks about the genre.
A talk with Martin Popoff about his latest book on Rush and how he assessed the thousands of albums he reviewed.
The renown rock singer talks about "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."
The lead singer/lyricist of The Beach Boys talks about coming up with the words for "Good Vibrations," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Kokomo" and other classic songs.
How well do you know your protest songs (including the one that went to #1)?