It really was so easy for Linda Ronstadt to score a hit with her Buddy Holly cover of "It's So Easy." She would sometimes change the lyric to: "It's so easy to have a hit, all you have to do is recycle it."
"Unchained Melody" first appeared in a 1955 movie called Unchained. The Righteous Brothers recorded it in 1965, and their version was resurrected in the 1990 movie Ghost.
The idea for "The Man Comes Around" came to Johnny Cash from a dream he had where he was in Buckingham Palace and the Queen said to him, "Johnny Cash, you're just like a thorn tree in a whirlwind."
Songwriter Wayne Carson came up with "Always On My Mind" on the phone to his wife when he was apologizing to her for being stuck at the office.
"I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock Of Seagulls ends with an alien abduction.
The stories behind "Shine," "December," "The World I Know" and other Collective Soul hits.
The Evanescence frontwoman on the songs that have shifted meaning and her foray into kids' music.
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
Billy Joel and Hall & Oates hated making videos, so they chose a director with similar contempt for the medium. That was Jay Dubin, and he has a lot to say on the subject.
The Creed lead singer reveals the "ego and self-fulfillment" he now sees in one of the band's biggest hits.
