"Veronica" was inspired by Elvis Costello's grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Mary J. Blige introduced three new words with her hit "Family Affair": hateration, holleration and dancerie.
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."
The most intense song we know that deploys a cowbell is "Killing In The Name," the most popular song by Rage Against The Machine. Their drummer kept a cowbell on his kit and used it in some of their recordings.
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo wrote "Beverly Hills" after seeing a photo of the group Wilson Phillips and imagining what it would be like to marry someone famous.
It really was so easy for Linda Ronstadt to score a hit with her Buddy Holly cover of "It's So Easy." She would sometimes change the lyric to: "It's so easy to have a hit, all you have to do is recycle it."
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Laura Nyro talks about her complex, emotionally rich songwriting and how she supports women's culture through her art.
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Writing great prog metal isn't easy, especially when it's for 60 musicians.
These overtly religious songs crossed over to the pop charts, despite resistance from fans, and in many cases, churches.
Did they really trade their guitarist to The Doobie Brothers? Are they named after something naughty? And what's up with the band name?