"Today" by Smashing Pumpkins is sarcastic in the line "today is the greatest day." Lead singer Billy Corgan wrote it about the crippling depression he was battling following the band's first big tour.
Sting wrote "Fields of Gold" after buying a house near a barley field and enjoying the majestic sunsets.
Fifth Harmony was going to call their song "Work," but they changed it to "Work from Home" when Rihanna released a song with that title.
A one-ton bell was custom made for AC/DC's "Hell's Bells." The recording was slowed to half speed to make it sound like a more ominous two-ton bell.
"Centerfield" was the first song enshrined in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
The opening lines to "Free Bird," "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" came from the girlfriend of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins, who asked him that question during an argument.
Jim talks about the impact of "The Middle" and uses a tree metaphor to describe his songwriting philosophy.
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
How Bing Crosby, Les Paul, a US Army Signal Corps Officer, and the Nazis helped shape rock and Roll.
The top Contemporary Christian artist of all time on song inspirations and what she learned from Johnny Carson.
