One of the first hit songs used in a major marketing campaign was "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones. Microsoft paid $3 million to use it in commercials for Windows '95.
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was supposed to be titled "In The Garden Of Eden," but someone in the studio wrote down the title phonetically, and it stuck.
The Black Eyed Peas shot the video for "Just Can't Get Enough" in Japan just a week before a devastating earthquake hit the country.
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.
Members of the San Francisco 49ers, including Dwight Clark, Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott, sang backup on "Hip to Be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News.
Jack White titled "Seven Nation Army" after how he would mispronounce "Salvation Army" when he was little.
The Sevendust frontman talks about the group's songwriting process, and how trips to the Murder Bar helped forge their latest album.
A big list of musical marriages and family relations ranging from the simple to the truly dysfunctional.
MTV, a popular TV theme song and Madonna all show up in this '80s music quiz.
Charlotte was established in the LA punk scene when a freaky girl named Belinda approached her wearing a garbage bag.
The drummer and one of the primary songwriters in Grand Funk talks rock stardom and Todd Rundgren.
With the rise of Kindie rock, more musicians are embracing their inner child with tunes for tots - here, we look at pop stars who recorded kids' albums.