Richard Harris, who played Professor Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies, had a hit in 1968 with "MacArthur Park."
When Adele needed to cry during the filming of the video for "Hello" she played Labrinth's 2014 single "Jealous." "You could play it at my kid's birthday and I'd burst into tears," she said.
The original "Enter Sandman" lyric was about crib death, with the "sandman" killing a baby.
A perfume called Wonderstruck was named after a line in Taylor Swift's song "Enchanted": "I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home."
"You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals was the first hit song to use the word "frenemies" in the lyrics.
Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" opens with the South African female singer Letta Mbulu saying the Swahili phrase "Naku penda piya-naku taka piya-mpenziwe." There was some geographic liberty here, as Swahili is not spoken in the West African nation of Liberia.
When Dave recorded the first version of the song with his group the Blasters, producer Nick Lowe gave him some life-changing advice.
Switchfoot's frontman and main songwriter on what inspires the songs and how he got the freedom to say exactly what he means.
The longtime Eagle talks about soaring back to his solo career, and what he learned about songwriting in the group.
Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?
Jon Fratelli talks about the band's third album, and the five-year break leading up to it.
