Prince Markie Dee of The Fat Boys co-wrote the Mary J. Blige hit "Real Love."
New Order took the title for "Blue Monday" from an illustration, which read "Goodbye Blue Monday," in the Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast Of Champions. The image referred to the invention of the washing machine improving housewives' lives.
The game Lana Del Rey sings about in "Video Games" is World of Warcraft - her ex used to play it all the time.
Musically, the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It" is based on the Christmas tune "O Come All Ye Faithful."
Don Johnson, who starred as Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice, had a #5 hit in 1986 with "Heartbeat."
Sarah McLachlan's "Possession" contains passages from letters a stalker sent her. He sued her for $250,000 and committed suicide before the trial.
The Reverend rants on psychobilly and the egghead academics he bashes in one of his more popular songs.
10 Questions for the author of Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces
How the American gangsta rappers made history by getting banned in the UK.
Go beyond The Beatles to see what you know about the British Invasion.
Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?
The (Meat)puppetmaster takes us through songs like "Lake Of Fire" and "Backwater," and talks about performing with Kurt Cobain on MTV Unplugged.
