When the Elvis stamps came out in 1993, lots of folks used them to mail letters with bad addresses so they would be Returned To Sender.
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" is Stevie Wonder's tribute to Bob Marley, released less than a year before Marley died.
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Phil Rizzuto is the announcer on Meat Loaf's "Paradise By the Dashboard Light." Rizzuto used to broadcast games for his former team, the Yankees.
Michael Jackson wrote the Diana Ross hit "Muscles," which he named after his pet boa constrictor.
The death of John Lennon was an influence on the Stevie Nicks hit "Edge Of Seventeen." He's the one with the "words of a poet and voice from a choir."
The country sweetheart opines about the demands of touring and talks about writing songs with her famous father.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?
Call us crazy, but we like it when an artist comes around who doesn't mesh with the status quo.
In the name of song explanation, Al talks about scoring heroin for William Burroughs, and that's not even the most shocking story in this one.
Faith No More's bassist, Billy Gould, chats to us about his two new experimental projects, The Talking Book and House of Hayduk, and also shares some stories from the FNM days.
