When Adele needed to cry during the filming of the video for "Hello" she played Labrinth's 2014 single "Jealous." "You could play it at my kid's birthday and I'd burst into tears," she said.
One of the first hit songs used in a major marketing campaign was "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones. Microsoft paid $3 million to use it in commercials for Windows '95.
The first Huey Lewis & the News hit, "Do You Believe In Love?," is a cover of a song Mutt Lange wrote three years earlier called "We Both Believe In Love."
Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" was inspired by the tribes that came together at New York dance clubs.
When The Kinks released "Lola," most people didn't realize it was about a transvestite.
"Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel was the unlikely choice for a torture scene in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs.
Tyler talks about his true love: songwriting. How he identifies the beauty in a melody and turns sorrow into art.
On "Life Is A Highway," his burgeoning solo career, and the Rascal Flatts song he most connects with.
The revered singer-songwriter talks inspiration and explains why she put a mahout in "Drop the Pilot."
The Celtic music maker Loreena McKennitt on finding musical inspiration, the "New Age" label, and working on the movie Tinker Bell.
A top country songwriter, Barry talks about writing hits for Little Big Town, Tim McGraw and Jason Aldean.
Chris Stein of Blondie shares photos and stories from his book about the New York City punk scene.
