Pete Townshend wrote the lyrics for "My Generation" during a train ride from London to Southampton on his 20th birthday.
Stephens Stills played timbales on the Bee Gees hit, "You Should Be Dancing." He was in the next door studio laying down a Crosby, Stills and Nash album and could hear Saturday Night Fever being recorded. Stills recognized its potential to be a monster hit and he wanted to contribute.
Ed Sheeran thought he wrote the x track "Photograph" on 6th Street in Denver, so he got a tattoo saying 6 ST. But when he returned it turned out the street was actually 6th Avenue.
"Zombie" by The Cranberries is about an IRA bombing in England that killed two children.
Michael Jackson's 1995 song "You Are Not Alone" was the first single in US history to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #1
A talk with Martin Popoff about his latest book on Rush and how he assessed the thousands of albums he reviewed.
Was Long Tall Sally a cross-dresser? Did he really set his piano on fire? See if you know the real stories about one of rock's greatest innovators.
Did they really trade their guitarist to The Doobie Brothers? Are they named after something naughty? And what's up with the band name?
On Glen's résumé: hit songwriter, Facebook dominator, and member of Styx.
The trail runs from flying saucer songs in the '50s, through Bowie, blink-182 and Katy Perry.
How well do you know your protest songs (including the one that went to #1)?
