Mary J. Blige introduced three new words with her hit "Family Affair": hateration, holleration and dancerie.
Billy Joel wrote "We Didn't Start The Fire" after a 21-year-old told him, "everyone knows that nothing happened in the '50s."
Lady Gaga says that "Poker Face" is about her personal experience with bisexuality; being with a man but thinking about a woman.
The actor Dan Aykroyd sang on "We Are The World." LaToya Jackson did too, so we know they weren't all that picky.
"I Got You Babe" made Sonny Bono the only person to perform on a #1 hit and also get elected to congress.
The idea for "The Man Comes Around" came to Johnny Cash from a dream he had where he was in Buckingham Palace and the Queen said to him, "Johnny Cash, you're just like a thorn tree in a whirlwind."
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
Justin wrote the classic "Nights In White Satin," but his fondest musical memories are from a different decade.
One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.
How a country weeper and a blues number made "rolling stone" the most popular phrase in rock.
Eddie (played by Johnny Depp in the video) found fame fleeting, but Chuck Berry's made-up musician fared better.
When televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart took on rockers like Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica, the rockers retaliated. Bono could even be seen mocking the preachers.