U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from Batman Forever was nominated for both a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and a Razzie for Worst Original Song.
Every film star mentioned in Madonna's "Vogue" has since died. The last was Lauren Bacall, who passed away in 2014.
"Fight The Power" was written for the Spike Lee movie Do The Right Thing. It opens the film and serves as the motif.
Bob Seger's song "Beautiful Loser" was inspired by book Leonard Cohen published in 1966 called Beautiful Losers.
Neil Young rarely allows his songs to be sampled, but he let the Canadian group Redlight King use "Old Man" in their 2011 song, also called "Old Man."
The inspiration for Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" came when he was worrying about his girlfriend, who was out at bars all day while he was home writing songs.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
Tom talks about the evolution of Cinderella's songs through their first three albums, and how he writes as a solo artist.
Are classic songs like "Over The Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in the public domain?
Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump.
Was "Pearl" Eddie Vedder's grandmother, and did she really make a hallucinogenic jam? Did Journey have a contest to name the group? And what does KISS stand for anyway?
The longtime BS&T frontman tells the "Spinning Wheel" story, including the line he got from Joni Mitchell.