"Come Dancing" by The Kinks was inspired by the older sister of Ray Davies, who would make guys take her out dancing and spend their money on her, only to send them home frustrated with just a peck on the cheek.
Lady Gaga says that "Poker Face" is about her personal experience with bisexuality; being with a man but thinking about a woman.
The CCR song "Run Through the Jungle" is about gun control.
Walk The Moon vocalist Nicholas Petricca got the idea for "Shut Up and Dance" when he and his girlfriend were taking forever to get drinks at a Los Angeles club bar. Petricca was getting frustrated, so his girlfriend told him to, "Shut up and dance with me!'"
Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult wrote "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" after he was diagnosed with a heart condition and started thinking about his own mortality.
Desmond Child thought Gavin Rossdale was singing "Kiss The Rain" on the Bush song "Glycerine." When he found out the truth, he wrote a song called "Kiss The Rain" for Billie Myers.
What are the biggest US hits with French, Spanish (not "Rico Suave"), Italian, Scottish, Greek, and Japanese titles?
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."
Wilder's hit "Break My Stride" had an unlikely inspiration: a famous record mogul who rejected it.
How well do you know this shock-rock harbinger who's been publicly executed hundreds of times?
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.
