"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" was written by Boy George about his relationship with Culture Club's drummer Jon Moss.
Ian Anderson wrote "Aqualung" after looking at pictures of homeless men that his wife took. She got a co-writing credit on the song.
Blur's "There Are Too Many of Us" was inspired in part by a siege in an Australian chocolate café that Damon Albarn witnessed, which resulted in the death of the gunman and two hostages.
McCartney wrote his duet with Stevie Wonder, "Ebony and Ivory," after a marital tiff with Linda. He told Mojo magazine : "It was like, 'Why can't we get it together- our piano can.'"
Jay-Z did the rap on "Crazy In Love" at the last minute. He and Beyoncé had started dating and the Texan songstress asked him to get on the song the night before she had to turn in her album.
The song "Sadeness" by Enigma (the one with the chanting monks), got its name from the French novelist Marquis de Sade, who believed sex had to be painful in order to be pleasurable - thus the word "sadism."
The leader of the Modern A Cappella movement talks about the genre.
Untangling the events that led to the "Stairway To Heaven" lawsuit.
Famous songs that lent their titles - and in some cases storylines - to movies.
The '70s gave us Muppets, disco and Van Halen, all which show up in this groovy quiz.
An interview with Dr. John Covach, music professor at the University of Rochester whose free online courses have become wildly popular.
The rock revolutionist on songwriting, quitting smoking, and what she thinks of Rush Limbaugh using her song.
