
Shaggy wrote his swaggering hit "Boombastic" after learning what "shag" means in the UK.

A one-ton bell was custom made for AC/DC's "Hell's Bells." The recording was slowed to half speed to make it sound like a more ominous two-ton bell.

Salt's "mighty good man" in the Salt-N-Pepa "Whatta Man" video is played by Tupac Shakur.

The Hall & Oates hit "Everything Your Heart Desires" has no rhymes.

"I Fought The Law" was a hit for The Bobby Fuller Four in 1965. The Clash released their version in 1979, changing the lyrics "I left my baby" to "I killed my baby."
A Soul Train dancer takes us through a day on the show, and explains what you had to do to get camera time.
Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?
A top session musician, Carol played on hundreds of hits by The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Frank Sinatra and many others.
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.