"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" was Michael Jaskson's attack on the tabloid press: "They eat off of you, you're a vegetable."
The UK band The Lightning Seeds of "Pure" fame got their name from a misheard line in Prince's "Raspberry Beret," mistaking "thunder drowns out what the lightning sees" for "thunder drowns out the lightning seeds."
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."
The Nicolette Larson hit "Lotta Love" was written by Neil Young, who recorded a very different version of the song.
The James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" is not romantic: it's a about a creepy subway encounter with an ex.
"You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals was the first hit song to use the word "frenemies" in the lyrics.
Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust.
Lita talks about how they wrote songs in The Runaways, and how she feels about her biggest hit being written by somebody else.
The Garbage drummer/songwriter produced the Nirvana album Nevermind, and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Siamese Dream.
In this quiz, spot the artist who put Romeo into a song lyric.
The hitmaking songwriter/producer Sam Hollander with stories about songs for Weezer, Panic! At The Disco, Train, Pentatonix, and Fitz And The Tantrums.
Fishbone has always enjoyed much more acclaim than popularity - Angelo might know why.