Don McLean's "American Pie" starts in mono and gradually goes to stereo. It isn't full stereo until the end of the song, which is over 8 minutes long.
The Split Enz song "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" is about the journey explorers made from Europe to colonize Australia and New Zealand, where the band is from.
The "Don't Stop Believin'" resurgence started when the Journey song was used in a roller skating scene of the 2003 movie Monster.
Shaggy wrote his swaggering hit "Boombastic" after learning what "shag" means in the UK.
"Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty is set in Los Angeles, as he mentions Reseda, Mulholland and Ventura Boulevard.
Tim McGraw recorded "Live Like You Were Dying" just two weeks after his own father passed away.
The Reverend rants on psychobilly and the egghead academics he bashes in one of his more popular songs.
When a waitress wouldn't take him home, Jack wrote what would become one of the Eagles most enduring hits.
Charlotte was established in the LA punk scene when a freaky girl named Belinda approached her wearing a garbage bag.
Christopher Cross with Deep Purple? Kenny Loggins in Caddyshack? A Fact or Fiction all about yacht rock and those who made it.
The Doobies guitarist and lead singer, Tom wrote the classics "Listen To The Music," "Long Train Runnin'" and "China Grove."
Greg talks about writing songs of "universal truth" for King Crimson and ELP, and tells us about his most memorable stage moment (it involves fireworks).