"Paranoid" reflects a feeling Black Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler often felt after using drugs.
Snap! were two German producers. When they needed a rapper, they found one on the American army base there and had him rap on "The Power."
Sheriff had been disbanded for years when "When I'm With You" hit #1 in America thanks to rediscovery by radio stations. The group never re-formed and never made a video for the song.
Shaggy wrote his swaggering hit "Boombastic" after learning what "shag" means in the UK.
In 2010, the biggest-selling song in the UK was "Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem.
He's a singer and an actor, but as a songwriter Paul helped make Kermit a cultured frog, turned a bank commercial into a huge hit and made love both "exciting and new" and "soft as an easy chair."
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.
The in-depth discussion about the making of Jesus Christ Superstar with Ted Neeley, who played Jesus in the 1973 film.
The Garbage drummer/songwriter produced the Nirvana album Nevermind, and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Siamese Dream.
Martyn talks about producing Tina Turner, some Heaven 17 hits, and his work with the British Electric Foundation.
An Electronic music pioneer with Asperger's Syndrome. This could be interesting.
