Radiohead's "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" is about the last surviving World War I veteran to fight in the trenches.
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.
Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds says their 2012 hit "Radioactive" is "a song about having an awakening; kind of waking up one day and deciding to do something new, and see life in a fresh way."
The phrase "Mamma Mia" was big in 1976. It was the name of a popular Abba song, and also showed up in the lyrics to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
The 1986 Kenny G instrumental "Songbird" owes much of its success to VH1, which launched a year earlier and played the video to death.
"Stay" by Shakespears Sister is based on a 1953 B-movie called Cat-Women Of The Moon.
Did Eric Clapton really write "Cocaine" while on cocaine? This question and more in the Clapton edition of Fact or Fiction.
Known in America for the hit "If You Leave," OMD is a huge influence on modern electronic music.
Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?
Kooper produced Lynyrd Skynyrd, played with Dylan and the Stones, and formed BS&T.
The top chant artist in the Western world, Krishna Das talks about how these Hindu mantras compare to Christian worship songs.
