Matthew Hopkins as portrayed by the American actor Vincent Price (1911-93) in the 1968 British period film Witchfinder General. Price is best known as a horror actor, and was cast equally as the hero or the villain of the piece. With his distinctive and at times wantonly sinister voice, it should have surprised no one that he was recruited to do the voice over on Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Bono came up with the idea of focusing on a soldier's last thoughts as he dies from his wounds in the U2 song "White As Snow" after reading William Golding's 1956 novel Pincher Martin.
One of Tom Petty's most personal songs is "Room At The Top," which he stopped performing because it brought back painful memories.
Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves had both gone through divorces when they wrote and recorded the wrenching duet "I Remember Everything." It was the first #1 Hot 100 hit for each of them.
Katherine Heigl played Josh Kelley's love interest in the video for his 2005 song "Only You." They met on the shoot, became a real-life couple, and got married two years later. That's good casting!
Billy Idol got the title for "Rebel Yell" from a brand of whiskey he saw members of The Rolling Stones drinking.
"Mr. Roboto" by Styx was written by their keyboard player, Dennis DeYoung, who used Japanese words and imagery to create an allegory about censorship.
Andrew Farriss on writing with Michael Hutchence, the stories behind "Mystify" and other INXS hits, and his country-flavored debut solo album.
Taylor talks about "The Machine" - the hits, the videos and Clive Davis.
In the name of song explanation, Al talks about scoring heroin for William Burroughs, and that's not even the most shocking story in this one.
Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Mila Kunis and John Malkovich are just a few of the film stars who have moonlighted in music videos.
A renowned guitarist and rock revivalist, Dave took "I Hear You Knocking" to the top of the UK charts and was the first to record Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk."
Are classic songs like "Over The Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in the public domain?