Neil Young later apologized for "Southern Man," calling it "accusatory and condescending" in its portrayal of the American South.
Chaka Khan's hit "I Feel For You" was written and originally recorded by Prince four years before she covered it.
The Hollies' 1967 hit "Carrie Anne" is about the British singer-actress Marianne Faithfull, but with "Marianne" changed to "Carrie-Anne" to disguise it. Faithfull dated Allan Clarke of The Hollies.
The Ricky Martin song "She Bangs" found new life when William Hung performed it so horribly on a 2004 episode of American Idol that it went viral.
The first Huey Lewis & the News hit, "Do You Believe In Love?," is a cover of a song Mutt Lange wrote three years earlier called "We Both Believe In Love."
Jo Dee Messina's 1996 country classic "Heads Carolina, Tails California" was inspired by a book released the previous year called Border Music by Robert James Waller, where the main character flips a coin to decide his next destination.
Into the vaults for this talk with Bolton from the '80s when he was a focused on writing songs for other artists.
When singers started spoofing their own songs on Sesame Street, the results were both educational and hilarious - here are the best of them.
Billy Joel and Hall & Oates hated making videos, so they chose a director with similar contempt for the medium. That was Jay Dubin, and he has a lot to say on the subject.
When you have a song called "Fire," it's tempting to set one - these guys did.
His keyboard work helped define the Muscle Shoals sound and make him an integral part of many Neil Young recordings. Spooner is also an accomplished songwriter, whose hits include "I'm Your Puppet" and "Cry Like A Baby."
The Christian rapper talks about where his trip to Haiti and his history of addiction fit into his songs.