Mariah Carey's "My All" is about her affair with New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.
The "Electric Avenue" in the Eddy Grant song is a real street. It got its name because it was the first street in London with electric lights.
Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" spent 24 weeks on top of the country chart- the most ever until Sam Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road" was #1 for 34 weeks. The record was previously held by Eddy Arnold's "I'll Hold You in My Heart (1947-48), Hank Snow's "I'm Moving On" (1950-51) and Webb Pierce's "In the Jailhouse Now" (1955), which each led for 21 weeks.
"Only Wanna Be With You" by Hootie & the Blowfish is a tribute to Bob Dylan, but Dylan sued them over it for using lyrics from his song "Idiot Wind."
"The House Of The Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, either about a brothel or a prison.
KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" was inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe's photograph of Patti Smith on the cover of her album Horses.
Billy Joel and Hall & Oates hated making videos, so they chose a director with similar contempt for the medium. That was Jay Dubin, and he has a lot to say on the subject.
A popular contemporary folk singer, Williams still remembers the sticky note that changed her life in college.
On Glen's résumé: hit songwriter, Facebook dominator, and member of Styx.
Dan cracked the Top 40 with "Ritual," then went to India and spent 2 hours with the Dalai Lama.
Lita talks about how they wrote songs in The Runaways, and how she feels about her biggest hit being written by somebody else.
Jim talks about the impact of "The Middle" and uses a tree metaphor to describe his songwriting philosophy.