MTV reversed the word "joint" in Tom Petty's "You Don't Known How It Feels" so it was unintelligible, but gave the video a VMA anyway.
45% of the royalties for "Somebody That I Used To Know" go to the estate of the Brazilian classical guitarist Luiz Bonfá, whose song "Seville" Gotye sampled.
Billy Idol's "Eyes Without A Face" has a gruesome inspiration. It's based on a 1959 French movie about a surgeon who abducts young women and removes their facial features.
Bruce Springsteen originally wrote "Fire" for Elvis Presley in 1977, and even sent him a demo. Sadly the King died before he ever heard it, and it was left to the Pointer Sisters to record the song.
"Reasons" by Earth, Wind & Fire is a popular wedding song, but it's actually about a one-night stand.
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is an English version of a Zulu hunting song from the 1930s.
A drummer for one of the most successful metal bands of the last decade, Chris talks about what it's like writing and performing with Slipknot. Metal-neck is a factor.
The former Dead Kennedys frontman on the past, present and future of the band, what music makes us "pliant and stupid," and what he learned from Alice Cooper.
One of the most popular classical vocalists in the land is lining up a trip to space, which is the inspiration for many of her songs.
Find out how God and glam metal go together from the Stryper frontman.
The original voice of Snap! this story is filled with angry drag queens, video impersonators and Chaka Khan.
