"I'll Melt With You" by Modern English is about a couple who melt together because a nuclear bomb drops.
The "Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen" intro in Def Leppard's "Rock Of Ages" is something their producer Mutt Lange came up with when he got tired of counting them "1, 2, 3, 4..."
Michael Stipe hadn't finished the lyrics when R.E.M. recorded "Radio Free Europe." He calls the vocal "complete babbling."
The songwriting team Leiber and Stoller wrote "Hound Dog" for a blues singer named Big Mama Thronton, who first recorded the song in 1953. Elvis covered it in 1956, and it became his biggest hit.
"Brad Paisley's "River Bank" was inspired by his childhood growing up 500 yards from the Ohio River.
"Stay" by Shakespears Sister is based on a 1953 B-movie called Cat-Women Of The Moon.
Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath explains the meanings behind some of their biggest songs and names the sci-fi books that have influenced him.
An original member of Depeche Mode, Vince went on to form Erasure and Yaz.
Medley looks back on "Unchained Melody" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" - his huge hits from the '60s that were later revived in movies.
The king of Christian worship music explains talks about writing songs for troubled times.
A Soul Train dancer takes us through a day on the show, and explains what you had to do to get camera time.
The "A Thousand Miles" singer on what she thinks of her song being used in White Chicks and how she captured a song from a dream.