Simon Rex from the TV show What I Like About You and Wilmer Valderrama from That 70s Show both appear in the LMFAO video for "Sexy and I Know It."
The TV show One Tree Hill got it's name from a song of the same name on U2's Joshua Tree album.
"Hangin' Tough" came at the peak of New Kids On The Block mania (1988). Their writer/producer Maurice Starr wrote it about the struggles the band faced early on. It was a #1 hit in both America and the UK.
"Video Killed The Radio Star" by Buggles was the first video to air on MTV when the network started broadcasting on August 1, 1981.
Gwen Stefani wrote the early No Doubt song "Just a Girl" as a message to her overprotective father.
Zac Hanson was just 11 years and 7 months old when "MMMbop" topped the Hot 100, making him the youngest group member to co-write and perform a US #1 single.
The Evanescence frontwoman on the songs that have shifted meaning and her foray into kids' music.
How the American gangsta rappers made history by getting banned in the UK.
When Dave recorded the first version of the song with his group the Blasters, producer Nick Lowe gave him some life-changing advice.
Famous songs that lent their titles - and in some cases storylines - to movies.
The Scorpions and UFO guitarist is also a very prolific songwriter - he explains how he writes with his various groups, and why he was so keen to get out of Germany and into England.
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."