Dig the album-cover art! Nice little illustration of a smiling '50s-style pin-up model, surrounded by a banana... and a hotdog... and a pickle... gee, it reminds us of some kind of symbolism, but we just can't quite reach for it...
When "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" climbed to #1 on the Hot 100, Katy Perry became the first woman to send five songs from one album to the top of the charts. The four previous chart-toppers from her Teenage Dream set were "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Firework" and "E.T."
"Come Dancing" by The Kinks was inspired by the older sister of Ray Davies, who would make guys take her out dancing and spend their money on her, only to send them home frustrated with just a peck on the cheek.
"I'll Melt With You" by Modern English is about a couple who melt together because a nuclear bomb drops.
The opening line in "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths is "I am the son and the heir," not "I am the sun and the air."
The Frozen song "Let It Go" was recorded in 42 different languages for the movie's foreign releases. This earned it an entry in the 2016 Guinness World Records publication for "Most Languages Featured on a Single."
"Video Killed The Radio Star" by Buggles was the first video to air on MTV when the network started broadcasting on August 1, 1981.
Can you be married in one country but not another? Only if you're part of a gay couple. One of the first famous singers to come out as a lesbian, Janis wrote a song about it.
Into the vaults for Bruce Pollock's 1984 conversation with the esteemed bluesman. Hooker talks about transforming a Tony Bennett classic and why you don't have to be sad and lonely to write the blues.
The original voice of Snap! this story is filled with angry drag queens, video impersonators and Chaka Khan.
Dean's saga began with "Ariel," a song about falling in love with a Jewish girl from New Jersey.
Jon Fratelli talks about the band's third album, and the five-year break leading up to it.
