The moans of pleasure in the Guns N' Roses song "Rocket Queen" are authentic.
The Isley Brothers became the first group to score a Top 50 hit in six consecutive decades when their song "Contagious" peaked at #19 in 2001. Their first entry was their song "Shout" in 1959.
Shinedown lead singer Brent Smith had a band before Shinedown that was dropped by Atlantic Records, but the label offered him a development deal - that was his "Second Chance."
Angus Young created the distinctive opening guitar part for AC/DC's "Thuderstruck" by playing with all the strings taped up except the B. He learned the studio trick from his older brother George Young, who was the rhythm guitarist for The Easybeats.
Before she was famous, Lady Gaga was a staff songwriter, and wrote the song "Quicksand," which Britney Spears recorded in 2008.
The Dave Matthews Band song "Crash Into Me" seems pretty romantic, but the guy in the song is kind of a stalker. Matthews calls him "the kind of man you'd call the police on."
"Lullaby" singer Shawn Mullins on "Beautiful Wreck," beating the Devil, and his writing credit on the Zac Brown Band song "Toes."
Here's what happens when an opening act is really out of place with the headliner, like when Beastie Boys opened for Madonna.
A band so baffling, even their names were contrived. Check your score in the Ramones version of Fact or Fiction.
Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?
Switchfoot's frontman and main songwriter on what inspires the songs and how he got the freedom to say exactly what he means.
