If what you get equals what you give away, you might as well give it all away. That's the concept behind "Give It Away" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
UB40's cover of Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine" was a minor hit when first released in 1983, but it went to #1 five years later when radio stations in Phoenix started playing it.
"Total Eclipse Of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler is a tribute to the vampire movie Nosferatu, depicting an immortal "love in the dark."
Psy's "Gangnam Style" refers to a section of Seoul, South Korea, that is very fashionable. The guy in the song has all the right moves and loves the ladies.
Avril Lavigne's 2011 song "Darlin" was written much earlier; she says it's the second song she ever wrote, composed when she was an unsigned 15-year-old living in Napanee, Ontario. The song reflects those years when she was "trying to figure it all out."
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo wrote "Beverly Hills" after seeing a photo of the group Wilson Phillips and imagining what it would be like to marry someone famous.
Find out how God and glam metal go together from the Stryper frontman.
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
The longtime BS&T frontman tells the "Spinning Wheel" story, including the line he got from Joni Mitchell.
How well do you know this shock-rock harbinger who's been publicly executed hundreds of times?
Not everyone can be a superhero, but that hasn't stopped generations of musicians from trying to be Superman.
A founding member of the band War, Harold gives a first-person account of one of the most important periods in music history.