In "People Like Me" he sings about how he and his cousin accidentally exploded a small bomb they found at school.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

On April twentieth an oil drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and sank about eighty kilometers from the Louisiana coast.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

One United States soldier,however, was killed the next day when a cannon exploded as Anderson's men prepared to leave the fort.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

And in April of nineteen eighty-six, a bomb exploded at a West Berlin discotheque popular with American troops.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

A passenger in a car threw a grenade that exploded as a crowd demonstrated against the Yemeni government.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

The satellite that Schirra and Stafford were supposed to chase apparently exploded after it was launched.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

But a few months before the election, a labor dispute exploded into an important campaign issue.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

One hundred sixty-seven men were killed when the structure exploded after a gas leak.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Then,on July thirteenth, the angers and fears of working men in New York exploded.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The Deepwater Horizon, an oil and gas drilling rig, exploded on April twentieth.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

On January twenty-eight nineteen eighty-six, shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take off.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

The Horizon Deepwater oil drilling rig exploded and sank last week.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The number two oxygen tank in the service module had exploded.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Their first launch had been cancelled because the target satellite exploded.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

He and two other men were killed when the gun exploded.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

In nineteen fourteen, Europe exploded into the First World War.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

However,the target a satellite apparently exploded after it was launched.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The attempt failed. The rocket exploded during the launch.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

South Carolina exploded with excitement at the news.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Huge amounts of shells and gunpowder were exploded.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

It looked like a far-away star had exploded.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The bomb exploded with a blinding flash.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The first atomic bomb has been exploded.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

After fires exploded across European Russia, burning 2,000 homes and killing 52 people, city officials sent out a work crew.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

North Korea on Monday exploded a nuclear device and tested a series of missiles in defiance of the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

That is where the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, exploded and sank in late March, killing 46 sailors.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

McNair and the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger died when the orbiter exploded shortly after liftoff.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02