Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" is about prostitutes, but it was still used in the movie Rugrats In Paris.
Props to Aretha Franklin: her song "Respect" introduced the term "propers" as a sign of proper respect.
Tired of X-Factor winners getting the UK Christmas #1, British Facebook users staged a successful campaign to download "Killing In The Name" by Rage Against The Machine enough times to boost the song to the top in 2009, blocking the X-Factor single by Joe McElderry.
Jethro Tull lead singer Ian Anderson wrote "Aqualung" after looking at pictures of homeless men that his wife took. She got a co-writing credit on the song.
"Piano Man" was inspired by Billy Joel's time playing at a piano bar in Los Angeles. The "real estate novelist" was a guy who always talked about writing a book, but spent all his spare time in the bar.
The trail runs from flying saucer songs in the '50s, through Bowie, blink-182 and Katy Perry.
Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?
Smith breaks down some of his worship tracks as well as his mainstream hits, including "I Will Be Here For You" and "A Place In This World."
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.
Go beyond The Beatles to see what you know about the British Invasion.
The Winger frontman reveals the Led Zeppelin song he cribbed for "Seventeen," and explains how his passion for orchestra music informs his songwriting.
