Janet Jackson wrote the lyric to "Nasty" in response to random guys calling her "baby."
"Wanted Dead Or Alive" by Bon Jovi got the Unplugged craze going when Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora performed it with just their acoustic guitars at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.
John Mellencamp considers "Pink Houses" an "anti-American song," laying bare the struggles of the poor and working class.
When the Velvet Underground song "Heroin" got screechy, Maureen Tucker stopped drumming, figuring it would bust the take, but her bandmates kept going. You can hear it at the 5:20 mark.
The video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans" features YouTube stars Chris Crocker, The Chocolate Rain Guy, The "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" Banana, and the Star Wars kid.
The Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" was written by the Motown team of Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland. The phrase "Sugar pie, honey bunch" was something Dozier's grandfather used to say when he was a kid.
A talk with Martin Popoff about his latest book on Rush and how he assessed the thousands of albums he reviewed.
On Glen's résumé: hit songwriter, Facebook dominator, and member of Styx.
How the American gangsta rappers made history by getting banned in the UK.
"Mr. Jones" took on new meaning when the song about a misguided view of fame made Adam famous.
Starting in Virginia City, Nevada and rippling out to the Haight-Ashbury, LSD reshaped popular music.
A look at the good (Diana Ross, Eminem), the bad (Madonna, Bob Dylan) and the peculiar (David Bowie, Michael Jackson) film debuts of superstar singers.