"Reasons" by Earth, Wind & Fire is a popular wedding song, but it's actually about a one-night stand.
Kung Fu was big in 1974, with movies by Bruce Lee and a TV series called Kung Fu. Carl Douglas brought it to the dance floor that year with "Kung Fu Fighting," a #1 hit.
The moans of pleasure in the Guns N' Roses song "Rocket Queen" are authentic.
Lily Allen wrote "Something's Not Right" for the soundtrack of the Peter Pan prequel, Pan. The song was inspired by the heartache that Allen experienced after suffering a miscarriage when she was six months pregnant with her first child by husband Sam Cooper in 2010.
The New Year's Eve favorite "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish song that roughly translates to "Days Of Long Ago."
"Paranoid" reflects a feeling Black Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler often felt after using drugs.
The man who created Yacht Rock with "Sailing" wrote one of his biggest hits while on acid.
In this quiz, spot the artist who put Romeo into a song lyric.
Todd Rundgren explains why he avoids "Hello It's Me," and what it was like producing Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell album.
Scaramouch, a hoople and a superhero soundtrack - see if you can spot the real Queen stories.
What are the biggest US hits with French, Spanish (not "Rico Suave"), Italian, Scottish, Greek, and Japanese titles?
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."