"I Won't Back Down" is a very personal song for Tom Petty. "I thought it wasn't that good because it was so naked," he said.
"The Best" by Tina Turner was originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler; Turner's hit version added a bridge and a saxophone solo by Edgar Winter.
"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is the most performed holiday song of all time, according to a Top 30 list released by the performance rights organization ASCAP in December 2014.
"Who Let The Dogs Out" won a Grammy. It took the award for Best Dance Recording in 2000.
Ozzy Osbourne's "Shot In The Dark" is titled after a Pink Panther movie.
Radiohead's "Paraonid Android" was written after a confrontation in a Los Angeles bar with an irate woman.
The Celtic music maker Loreena McKennitt on finding musical inspiration, the "New Age" label, and working on the movie Tinker Bell.
Some album art was at least "inspired" by others. A look at some very similar covers.
Billie Jean, Delilah, Sara, Laura and Sharona - do you know who the girls in the songs really are?
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
The man who brought us "Red Skies" and "Saved By Zero" is now an organic farmer in France.
The Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist in the early '90s, Gilby talks about the band's implosion and the side projects it spawned.
