The Styx concept album Paradise Theatre was inspired by a Robert Addison serigraph of the same name.
U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from Batman Forever was nominated for both a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and a Razzie for Worst Original Song.
Meghan Trainor wrote "Lips Are Movin" in just eight minutes with her writing partner Kevin Kadish.
"Kashmir" is the only Led Zeppelin song to use outside musicians, as it needed strings and horns.
"99 Luftballons" by Nena is about a Cold War scare when balloons showed up on radar and were mistaken as a nuclear threat.
"Paper Planes" was inspired by M.I.A.'s hassles trying to get a visa to enter America.
The voice is that says "here we go" in the AJR song "Bang!" belongs to Charlie Pellett, the announcer on the New York City subway ("stand clear of the closing doors, please").
The renown rock singer talks about "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."
Fishbone has always enjoyed much more acclaim than popularity - Angelo might know why.
The story of the legendary lupine DJ through the songs he inspired.
The former Metallica bassist talks about his first time writing a song with James Hetfield, and how a hand-me-down iPad has changed his songwriting.
The man who created Yacht Rock with "Sailing" wrote one of his biggest hits while on acid.
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."
