"All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey was the first ringtone certified Gold.
When The Kinks released "Lola," most people didn't realize it was about a transvestite.
"Love Is A Battlefield" was written as a ballad, but Pat Benatar's guitarist/husband turned it into an uptempo song.
Steve Perry wrote "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" with the opening lyrics, "You make me weep, I wanna die," after seeing his girlfriend kissing another man.
"Cruise" climbed from 6-5 on the Hot 100 in its 34th week. In doing so it set a record for the slowest ascent to the Top 5 in the chart's history, which was beaten by Imagine Dragon's "Radioactive" 42-week clamber to #4 three weeks later.
Zac tells the story of Hanson's massive hit "MMMbop," and talks about how brotherly bonds effect their music.
How a goofy detective movie, a disenchanted director and an unlikely songwriter led to one of the biggest hits in pop history.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
The king of Christian worship music explains talks about writing songs for troubled times.
A talk with Martin Popoff about his latest book on Rush and how he assessed the thousands of albums he reviewed.
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.