When "When I Think of You" hit #1, Janet and Michael Jackson became the first siblings with chart topping solo hits in the United States.
"Paranoid" reflects a feeling Black Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler often felt after using drugs.
The B-52's picked chose the location of their song "Private Idaho" because the state had a reputation for being wacky and mysterious. The title was a play on the phrase "Private Eye."
"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring was inspired by the Robert Ludlum novel The Bourne Identity, not by the TV show.
Lionel Richie hosted the American Music Awards the night he recorded "We Are The World."
Billie Jean, Delilah, Sara, Laura and Sharona - do you know who the girls in the songs really are?
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.
We ring the Hell's Bells to see what songs and rockers are sincere in their Satanism, and how much of it is an act.
A top New York studio musician, Ralph played guitar on many '60s hits, including "Lightnin' Strikes," "A Lover's Concerto" and "I Am A Rock."
Was Long Tall Sally a cross-dresser? Did he really set his piano on fire? See if you know the real stories about one of rock's greatest innovators.
A song he wrote and recorded from "sheer spiritual inspiration," Allen's didn't think "Southern Nights" had hit potential until Glen Campbell took it to #1 two years later.