YouTube had to upgrade after PSY's "Gangnam Style" broke their hit counter in 2012. Once the video reached 2,147,483,647 views, the maximum positive value for a 32-bit signed binary integer in computing, the view-counter could no longer work.
Keith Richards did some studio alchemy on "Street Fighting Man," which is all acoustic except the bass.
"Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers was inspired by the Jack Lemmon movie Days of Wine and Roses.
"Heaven" by The Psychedelic Furs sounds upbeat, but is about an impending nuclear bombardment.
On Metallica's "The Unforgiven," James Hetfield modeled his vocals on Chris Isaak.
The CCR song "Run Through the Jungle" is about gun control.
Starting in Virginia City, Nevada and rippling out to the Haight-Ashbury, LSD reshaped popular music.
Here's what happens when an opening act is really out of place with the headliner, like when Beastie Boys opened for Madonna.
When you free your mind, your ass may follow, but you have to make sure someone else doesn't program it while it's wide open.
The man who ran Nirvana's first label gets beyond the sensationalism (drugs, Courtney) to discuss their musical and cultural triumphs in the years before Nevermind.
When a waitress wouldn't take him home, Jack wrote what would become one of the Eagles most enduring hits.
Ozzy, Guns N' Roses, Judas Priest and even Michael Bolton show up in this Classic Metal quiz.