"I Got You Babe" made Sonny Bono the only person to perform on a #1 hit and also get elected to congress.
"St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" was not written for the movie, but for Rick Hanson, a wheelchair athlete whose 1985 "Man In Motion" tour logged 24,856 miles on his wheelchair in 34 countries while raising $26 million for spinal cord research.
Hozier's "Take Me to Church" drew inspiration from the atheist writer Christopher Hitchens. He called it "a bit of a losing your religion song."
Kenny Loggins co-wrote the Doobie Brothers hit "What a Fool Believes," which is about a guy who just can't accept that an affair from long ago was meaningless to her.
Johnny Cash promised to stay true to his first wife in "I Walk The Line," but when the song became a hit he found himself on the road, having an affair with June Carter, who became his second wife.
"Stand By Me" was a hit for Ben E. King when it was released in 1961, and again in 1986 after it was used in the movie of the same name.
Graham Nash tells the stories behind some of his famous songs and photos, and is asked about "yacht rock" for the first time.
In 1986, a Stephen King novella was made into a movie, with a classic song serving as title, soundtrack and tone.
We've heard of artists putting their hearts into their music, but some take it literally.
How a gym teacher, a janitor, and a junkie became part of some very famous band names.
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.
