Pete Townshend wrote the lyrics for "My Generation" by The Who during a train ride from London to Southampton on his 20th birthday when he was thinking about "trying to find a place in society."
"Mercedes Boy" by Pebbles is about a real guy she fell in love with - they both drove Mercedes when she wrote it.
The Mary J. Blige song "No More Drama" samples the theme to the appropriately dramatic soap opera The Young And The Restless.
Yoko Ono has always denied requests to cover "Imagine" with the line "no religion, too" omitted or changed.
Billy Joel is surprised that "Piano Man" is so successful. He called it "an old, long song about a guy at a depressing piano bar."
"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" was first recorded in 1934 by Eddie Cantor, but in 1962 it was one of the first hits for The Four Seasons, who became one of the most popular groups of that decade.
Tom stopped performing Thompson Twins songs in 1987, in part because of their personal nature: "Hold Me Now" came after an argument with his bandmate/girlfriend Alannah Currie.
One of the most popular classical vocalists in the land is lining up a trip to space, which is the inspiration for many of her songs.
An interview with Dr. John Covach, music professor at the University of Rochester whose free online courses have become wildly popular.
Jon Fratelli talks about the band's third album, and the five-year break leading up to it.
Gramm co-wrote this gorgeous ballad and delivered an inspired vocal, but the song was the beginning of the end of his time with Foreigner.
In this talk from the '80s, the Kansas frontman talks turning to God and writing "Dust In The Wind."