Bruce Sprinsteen said "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" was "the best love song I ever wrote."
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.
R.E.M. got the title "Shiny Happy People" from a Chinese propaganda poster.
In 2010, the biggest-selling song in the UK was "Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem.
The original "Enter Sandman" lyric was about crib death, with the "sandman" killing a baby.
The bedrock of David Guetta's Nicki Minaj-featuring single "Hey Mama" is a sample of "Rosie," a 1940s prison recording from folk archivist Alan Lomax that songwriter Esther Dean first showed the French DJ on YouTube.
Wilder's hit "Break My Stride" had an unlikely inspiration: a famous record mogul who rejected it.
Kristian talks songwriting technique, like how the chorus should redefine the story, and how to write a song backwards.
When you have a song called "Fire," it's tempting to set one - these guys did.
Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?
Webb talks about his classic songs "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman" and "MacArthur Park."
Charlotte was established in the LA punk scene when a freaky girl named Belinda approached her wearing a garbage bag.