Tina Turner hated "What's Love Got To Do With It" but when her manager convinced her to record it anyway, it became her big comeback hit.
Alicia Keys got a huge break when Oprah had her perform her debut single, "Fallin'," on her show.
Elton John didn't win a Grammy until 1986, when he got one for singing on "That's What Friends Are For."
"Girl Crush" by Little Big Town came from the hashtag #girlcrush, which its co-writer, Lori McKenna, spotted on Instagram.
"Here Comes Your Man" is the closest the Pixies came to a hit in America. It was rumored to be about a drug dealer, but Black Francis says it's just a story about some hobos who travel by train and die in an earthquake.
Iggy Pop wrote "Lust For Life" with David Bowie, who came up with the music on a ukulele.
A popular contemporary folk singer, Williams still remembers the sticky note that changed her life in college.
Known in America for the hit "If You Leave," OMD is a huge influence on modern electronic music.
Devo founders Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale take us into their world of subversive performance art. They may be right about the De-Evoloution thing.
Oliver Leiber talks about writing and producing hits for Paula Abdul, and explains his complicated relationship with his father, the songwriter Jerry Leiber.
The Yardbirds drummer explains how they created their sound and talks about working with their famous guitarists.
The Reverend rants on psychobilly and the egghead academics he bashes in one of his more popular songs.