Pink wrote "Just Give Me A Reason" about how one partner can feel jilted over something trivial, like how her boyfriend passes her the butter.
The Fratellis song "Chelsea Dagger" was named for their lead singer's wife - it was her burlesque name.
What #1 hit is built on a sample of another #1 hit? "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G., which gets its groove from "Rise," a chart-topper for Herb Alpert in 1979.
"Human" by The Killers was the most streamed song on Spotify in 2008, the year that the music streaming service was launched.
The "Ms. Jackson" in the OutKast song is Erykah Badu's mother. Andre 3000 had a child with Badu, and felt she was portraying him as a lousy dad.
Dokken frontman Don Dokken explains what broke up the band at the height of their success in the late '80s, and talks about the botched surgery that paralyzed his right arm.
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.
The man who brought us "Red Skies" and "Saved By Zero" is now an organic farmer in France.
Songs where something goes horribly wrong (literally or metaphorically), and help is needed right away.
Kristian talks songwriting technique, like how the chorus should redefine the story, and how to write a song backwards.
