Music: Musician Facts, Trivia, Quizzes, Brain Teasers & More

When the free-spirited world of music collides with the highly controlled, advertiser-driven world of television.

Washington Post reporter Geoff Edgers has crafted an oral history of the making of the groundbreaking song and video.

These photos were never intended to be famous album artwork, but that's exactly what they became.

Edie Sedgwick, seen here with Andy Warhol, was one such muse.

From Edie Sedgwick to Courtney Love, these famous muses inspired some of the most enduring songs in music history, including "Femme Fatale" by the Velvet Underground and Nico and many others.

The classic novel's 600 pages were condensed into a terrifying, two-hour performance.

The lavish Liberace truly did laugh all the way to the bank. But there’s a lot more to Lee—as his friends called him—than rhinestone costumes and his love of candelabra on pianos.

The 'Top Gun' tune hit a bit of turbulence.

Every great song has to start somewhere.

The Carpenter family band is about to go on tour.

He was also president of the Procrastination Club of America.

An eye-opening look at Wagner's 'Tannhäuser.'

“There's a new tortilla chip called SalsaRio Doritos," Crooned the Waits impersonator. "It's buffo, boffo, bravo, gung-ho, tallyho but never mellow.”

Hey, hey, they’re back.

So that's why Mambo No. 5 is still stuck in your head.

The ghostly reason behind why the classic song sounds the way it does.

"That's my pig," Roger Waters told Coachella attendees as the inflatable swine drifted off into the desert.

The shock rockers' "overnight" success was a long time coming.

With the 20th anniversary of his show (September 10) just in the rear-view mirror, here are 10 of fictional Not That Bad Records' greatest hits from the not-actually-real album "Soundtrack of Science."