Neil Diamond originally wrote "I'm A Believer" for the Country artist Eddy Arnold. He was surprised when record executive Don Kirshner passed it instead to The Monkees.
Lily Allen wrote "Something's Not Right" for the soundtrack of the Peter Pan prequel, Pan. The song was inspired by the heartache that Allen experienced after suffering a miscarriage when she was six months pregnant with her first child by husband Sam Cooper in 2010.
"Kashmir" is the only Led Zeppelin song to use outside musicians, as it needed strings and horns.
An unknown Ke$ha sang on Flo-Rida's #1 hit "Right Round," but refused to appear in the video because she wanted to make a name for herself.
Snap! was two German producers. When they needed a rapper, they found one on the American army base there and had him rap on "The Power."
Weird Al Yankovic proposed a parody of "Black Or White" called "Snack All Night," but Michael Jackson asked him not to.
Into the vaults for this talk with Bolton from the '80s when he was a focused on writing songs for other artists.
Stage urinals, flute devices, and the real Aqualung in this Fact or Fiction.
The man who ran Nirvana's first label gets beyond the sensationalism (drugs, Courtney) to discuss their musical and cultural triumphs in the years before Nevermind.
A band so baffling, even their names were contrived. Check your score in the Ramones version of Fact or Fiction.
Is "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" about Vietnam? Was John Fogerty really born on a Bayou? It's the CCR edition of Fact or Fiction.
On Glen's résumé: hit songwriter, Facebook dominator, and member of Styx.