The Styx concept album Paradise Theatre was inspired by a Robert Addison serigraph of the same name.
Ed Sheeran's first single was "The A Team," a song about a drug-addicted prostitute.
Katy Perry's breakout hit, "I Kissed A Girl," was surprising to those familiar with her past: Her parents were pastors and she started off singing Christian music.
Angus Young created the distinctive opening guitar part for AC/DC's "Thuderstruck" by playing with all the strings taped up except the B. He learned the studio trick from his older brother George Young, who was the rhythm guitarist for The Easybeats.
Adele isn't a ghost when she sings, "Hello from the other side" - it means the "other side of becoming an adult."
Mary J. Blige introduced three new words with her hit "Family Affair": hateration, holleration and dancerie.
Bob Seger's "Against The Wind" has the famous mind-bending line, "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Seger was going to cut it, but his Eagles buddies Glenn Frey and Don Henley told him it was the best line in the song.
An Electronic music pioneer with Asperger's Syndrome. This could be interesting.
The Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist in the early '90s, Gilby talks about the band's implosion and the side projects it spawned.
Writing great prog metal isn't easy, especially when it's for 60 musicians.
Dave explains how the video appropriated the meaning of "Runaway Train," and what he thought of getting parodied by Weird Al.
The Prince-penned "Manic Monday" was the first song The Bangles heard coming from a car radio, but "Eternal Flame" is closest to Susanna's heart, perhaps because she sang it in "various states of undress."
Can you name Def Leppard's only #1 hit in America? Get rocked with this adrenalized quiz.