Kesha (known at the time as Ke$ha) was still pretty wild when she released her song "Crazy Kids" in 2012. It's about one of her birthday parties that got a little out of hand.
"The Way We Were" was the first of five #1 singles by Barbra Streisand. She is the only artist ever to receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy, and also record a #1 single and album.
Gwen Stefani wrote the early No Doubt song "Just a Girl" as a message to her overprotective father.
The riff for The Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" was pinched from a very unpunk song, the ABBA ballad "S.O.S."
The Annie Lennox hit "No More I Love You's" is a cover, originally sung by a man.
The game Lana Del Rey sings about in "Video Games" is World of Warcraft - her ex used to play it all the time.
One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.
A popular contemporary folk singer, Williams still remembers the sticky note that changed her life in college.
Armed with a childhood spent devouring books, Mike Scott's heart was stolen by the punk rock scene of 1977. Not surprisingly, he would go on to become the most literate of rockers.
The co-writer/guitarist on many Alice Cooper hits, Dick was also Lou Reed's axeman on the Rock n' Roll Animal album.
You know the scenes - Tom Cruise in his own pants-off dance off, Molly Ringwald celebrating her birthday - but do you remember what song is playing?
