May 26, 1975
After OutKast sang "Shake it like a Polaroid picture," on "Hey Ya," Polaroid issued the statement, "Shaking or waving can actually damage the image."
Two tears roll down Sinead O'Connor's face. toward the end of the video for "Nothing Compares 2 U." They were shed because she associated the song's lyrics of love and loss with her mother, who was killed in a car accident in 1985.
Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" is based on the book of the same name by William Burroughs.
An Allen Ginsberg line from his poem Howl inspired "Machinehead" by Bush: "Machine says I saw the best minds of my generation."
The Strokes admitted to purloining Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "American Girl" for their hit "Last Nite."
The song "Sadeness" by Enigma (the one with the chanting monks), got its name from the French novelist Marquis de Sade, who believed sex had to be painful in order to be pleasurable - thus the word "sadism."
The outlaw country icon talks about the spiritual element of his songwriting and his Bob Dylan mention.
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
Famous songs that lent their titles - and in some cases storylines - to movies.
One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.
Do their first three albums have French titles? Is "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" really meaningless? See if you can tell in this Fact or Fiction.
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."
