Eric Clapton was lusting after George Harrison's then-wife. They eventually married, years after this Derek and the Dominos song came out.
They really did find her name and number on the wall, so they wrote about it. Still, to this day, people with the associated number get prank called.
The location of a 1970 college campus shooting that left four dead gave this CSNY hit its title.
Despite its apparent patriotic image, further review of this Bruce Springsteen title track tells a different tale about how disillusioned a Vietnam vet returning home can become.
R.E.M. sang about Andy Kaufman, and the song lent its title to his biopic.
U2 was inspired by the suicide of INXS singer Michael Hutchence to write this, which consists of Bono speaking to Hutchence from beyond the grave.
Many years after the narrator of this J. Geils Band song graduates high school, he finds his crush posing in a dirty magazine.
It took Shawn Colvin until she was in her 40s to strike a hit, but she did about a girl who commits arson to escape her demons.
Lee Greenwood's patriotism will always carry him through, so he sings.
Metallica makes nightmares come to life.
Paul Simon claimed that the opening line to this hit reflects his habit of writing songs in his bathroom.
Sometimes, Shinedown says in 2009, you have to chase your dreams no matter what.
In this Green Day song, the pain of losing one's father never goes away.
George Strait lives in Tennessee for a very specific reason.
This Don McLean standard follows a turbulent decade in society, starting from the day of a famous plane crash.
Musical Youth covered a song about drugs making it about going hungry. Didn't exactly work out as planned.
Usher drew from personal experience in co-writing this song about a love triangle he creates.
Justin Timberlake made Britney Spears learn the hard way about what happened at the end of their relationship.
When this song was first written by one of the members of The Knack, the title girl was a minor.
A war starts over red balloons, so says Nena.
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