"Killing An Arab" by The Cure was inspired by Albert Camus' book The Stranger.
Sleigh bells aren't very punk, but they play throughout the Stooges classic "I Wanna Be Your Dog."
"Tammy" by Debbie Reynolds was the only US #1 single by a female act between July 1956 and February 1958.
Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" was the first #1 hit created entirely in Pro Tools.
The EMF song "Unbelievable" samples the raunchy comic Andrew Dice Clay saying, "What the f--k was that!"
Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is a country reworking of J-Kwon's hip-hop hit "Tipsy," with the setting changed from a club to a dive bar.
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.
Elvis, Little Richard and Cheryl Cole have all sung about Teddy Bears, but there is also a terrifying Teddy song from 1932 and a touching trucker Teddy tune from 1976.
Are classic songs like "Over The Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in the public domain?
Lita talks about how they wrote songs in The Runaways, and how she feels about her biggest hit being written by somebody else.
Richard explains how Joe Walsh kickstarted his career, and why he chose Hazard, Nebraska for a hit.
The stories behind the biggest hit songs about trucking.