The B-52's picked chose the location of their song "Private Idaho" because the state had a reputation for being wacky and mysterious. The title was a play on the phrase "Private Eye."
Alicia Keys wrote "If I Ain't Got You" just after she'd heard the news that Aaliyah had passed away. in a plane crash.
The name "Schoolhouse Rock," which was a series of educational cartoons, was a play on "Jailhouse Rock," the title of an Elvis Presley song.
"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.
It took John Fogerty just 20 minutes to write "Fortunate Son" for Creedence Clearwater Revival's Willy And The Poorboys album..
KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" was inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph of Patti Smith on the cover of her album Horses.
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."
Stage urinals, flute devices, and the real Aqualung in this Fact or Fiction.
Charlotte was established in the LA punk scene when a freaky girl named Belinda approached her wearing a garbage bag.
These overtly religious songs crossed over to the pop charts, despite resistance from fans, and in many cases, churches.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
