
The game Lana Del Rey sings about in "Video Games" is World of Warcraft - her ex used to play it all the time.

Avril Lavigne has a perfume named after her song "Black Star." It smells much better than her Sk8er Boi scent, which reeks of Axe body spray and road grime.
The New Year's Eve favorite "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish song that roughly translates to "Days Of Long Ago."

"Kashmir" is the only Led Zeppelin song to use outside musicians, as it needed strings and horns.

"Chasing Pavements" isn't British slang - it's a saying Adele came up with when she found herself running out of a bar after a fight with her boyfriend. "He didn't chase after me! So I was running, just looking at these big wide pavements stretching in front me," she said.

The title of Florence + the Machine's "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" was inspired by the Los Angeles skyline.
The head of Drake's estate shares his insights on the late folk singer's life and music.
Here's what happens when an opening act is really out of place with the headliner, like when Beastie Boys opened for Madonna.
The stories behind the biggest hit songs about trucking.
Test your metal - Priest, Maiden, and Beavis and Butt-head show up in this one.
Switchfoot's frontman and main songwriter on what inspires the songs and how he got the freedom to say exactly what he means.
It took him seven years to recover from his American hit "Fool (If You Think It's Over)," but Chris Rea became one of the top singer-songwriters in his native UK.