One Hit Wonders

Gary Numan originally belonged to the punk band Tubeway Army. One day when he went into the studio with them to record a new album, he found a synthesizer someone left behind from a previous session, which eventually led him to record "Cars".

Rob Parissi (of Wild Cherry) sued Vanilla Ice for his remake of "Play That Funky Music" without giving him credit and won a settlement of over $500,000.

Suzi Quatro had a recurring role on Happy Days as Leather Tuscadero.

Musical Youth's song "Pass the Dutchie" is loosely based on Mighty Diamond's song "Pass the Kouchie" (the latter is obviously a drug reference). Musical Youth insist that passing the dutchie is about passing a cooking pot, which caused a lot of skepticism. There may be some truth to this explanation, however, as a cooking pot is properly called a dutch oven.

EMF stands for "Epsom Mad Funkers" (although it was rumored to stand for "Ecstacy Mother Fuckers"). The name was shortened to EMF after the full name wouldn't fit on a poster.

Buster Poindexter is the alter ego of David Johansen, former vocalist of The New York Dolls.

One year after Baz Luhrmann scored big with "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)", Chris Rock did a parody of the song and called it "No Sex (In the Champagne Room)".

The success of "Afternoon Delight" prompted CBS to give Starland Vocal Band their own variety show, but it was cancelled after five weeks.

Starland Vocal Band originally claimed that their song "Afternoon Delight" was about a type of dessert, but the song is actually about having sex in the afternoon.

For some reason, radio stations had no problem playing Meredith Brooks' song "Bitch".

"Turning Japanese" (by The Vapors) refers to the facial expression a man gets while he is masturbating.

Modern English's song "I Melt With You" was never actually a chart hit.

MTV listed "Bittersweet Symphony" as being one of the greatest videos ever made (the video was directed by Walter Stern).