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.
"Soul Man" was a new term when the song was written in 1967. As defined by Sam & Dave, the "soul man" was a farmer "comin' to ya on a dusty road."
Jack & Diane started off as an interracial couple; Mellencamp took race references out of the song at the request of his record company.
Beyoncé married Jay-Z five months before releasing "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," a song she sang in character as her alter-ego, Sasha Fierce.
The evolution of the symbol that was Prince's name from 1993-2000.
With Bernie Taupin, Martin co-wrote the #1 hits "We Built This City" and "These Dreams." After writing the Pretty Woman song for Go West, he had his own hit with "In the House of Stone and Light."
Don breaks down "Hotel California" and other songs he wrote as a member of the Eagles. Now we know where the "warm smell of colitas" came from.
The 10 biggest "retirement tours" that didn't take.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
How a country weeper and a blues number made "rolling stone" the most popular phrase in rock.