The Split Enz song "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" is about the journey explorers made from Europe to colonize Australia and New Zealand, where the band is from.
If you have a whole day to kill, you can check out the full version of Pharrell Williams' "Happy" music video, the world's first 24-hour music video.
"Take Me Home Country Roads" is set in West Virginia, but John Denver had never been there when he recorded the song. The country roads represent a sense of belonging.
There really is a China Grove (in Texas), but Tom Johnston didn't know about it when he wrote the Doobie Brothers song.
"You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals was the first hit song to use the word "frenemies" in the lyrics.
The motto for Boys Town, which was a Nebraska home for troubled youth, inspired the song "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" by The Hollies.
Rufus Wainwright on "Hallelujah," his album Unfollow The Rules, and getting into his "lyric trance" on 12-hour walks.
With his X-wife Exene, John fronts the band X and writes their songs.
Despite appearances on Carson, Leno and a Pennebaker film, Williams remains a hidden treasure.
On Glen's résumé: hit songwriter, Facebook dominator, and member of Styx.
Doors expert Jim Cherry, author of The Doors Examined, talks about some of their defining songs and exposes some Jim Morrison myths.
Howard explains his positive songwriting method and how uplifting songs can carry a deeper message.