On May 27, 2018, Snoop Dogg helped make what Guinness called the "world's largest paradise cocktail," otherwise known as a gin and juice. The stunt took place at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival in Napa, California, where Snoop performed.
The closing lyrics in "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies are "Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie," which refers to a soccer tournament in Ontario.
David Byrne says "Road To Nowhere" is about "how there's no order and no plan and no scheme to life and death and it doesn't mean anything, but it's all right.
Meghan Trainor and her producer Kevin Kadish wrote "All About That Bass" for another artist to record, but after Epic Records boss LA Reid heard Meghan play a demo of the song on a ukulele, he signed her to his label and told her she should sing it.
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is based on billboards John Lennon and Yoko Ono posted two years earlier declaring "War Is Over! If You Want It."
Katmandu, the capital of Nepal, was the archetype for faraway mysticism when Bob Seger wrote a song about it in 1975.
The melody to "Yesterday" came to Paul McCartney in a dream, but the lyrics he had to write consciously. His first attempt at the title was "Scrabble Eggs."
Devo founders Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale take us into their world of subversive performance art. They may be right about the De-Evoloution thing.
One of the most dynamic bass player/songwriters of his time, Chris is the only member of Yes who has been with the band since they formed in 1968.
The Evanescence frontwoman on the songs that have shifted meaning and her foray into kids' music.
Billie Jean, Delilah, Sara, Laura and Sharona - do you know who the girls in the songs really are?
Here's what happens when an opening act is really out of place with the headliner, like when Beastie Boys opened for Madonna.
An interview with Dr. John Covach, music professor at the University of Rochester whose free online courses have become wildly popular.