Tom Hardy played both Ronald and Reginald Kray in the 2015 movie Legend. There's also a British movie called The Krays where the brothers are played by Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet.
Bob Seger got inspired to write "Night Moves" after watching the movie American Graffiti, which showed young people growing up in his "neck of the woods."

Before the game when he hit a famous shot to win a playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Michael Jordan was listening to Anita Baker's "Giving You The Best That I Got."

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."

Phil Collins' "I Missed Again" was originally "I Miss You, Babe," and was a very somber song about his recent divorce. Collins decided to lighten it up and inject some humor into the song.

The Ricky Martin song "She Bangs" found new life when William Hung performed it so horribly on a 2004 episode of American Idol that it went viral.

"Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" by Aerosmith was inspired by Vince Neil from Motley Crue.
Lots of life lessons in these Eagles lyrics - can you match them to the correct song?
The Christian rapper talks about where his trip to Haiti and his history of addiction fit into his songs.
The king of Christian worship music explains talks about writing songs for troubled times.
When Judd Apatow needed under-appreciated rockers for his Knocked Up sequel, he immediately thought of Parker, who just happened to be getting his band The Rumour back together.
When you free your mind, your ass may follow, but you have to make sure someone else doesn't program it while it's wide open.
A talk with Martin Popoff about his latest book on Rush and how he assessed the thousands of albums he reviewed.