At the time of their formation in 1986, Buffalo, New York-based band the Goo Goo Dolls, like many budding rock acts, were so eager for a record deal they were pretty much willing to sign any contract, no matter how detrimental it was to band members.
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1997's Titanic, starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, was a phenomenon upon release. But nothing is perfect, except perhaps Leo's hair. Despite Cameron's eye for detail, there are still a few things wrong with the film. Here are things Titanic got wrong about the real-life disaster.
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His time as a rapper was quite short-lived -- only one album, 2003's Be A Man -- but that effort was packed with enough of his classic swagger to fill a lesser man's entire career. The title track addresses his rivalry with Hulk Hogan, "one of the most well-built matches in WWE history."
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As Limp Bizkit accepted the Best Rock Video at the MTV Music Awards, RATM bassist Tim Commerford crashed the stage, climbed a 20-foot fake palm tree, and refused to come down.
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Of all the stories about the Grateful Dead, perhaps is none more completely wholesome than the one about how they saved a little yogurt company and brought into the mainstream the food that supplies us with both calcium and healthy bacteria.
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Notably, Bowie himself doesn't appear on the album art -- a career first for the stylish artist, according to The Guardian. But anyone familiar with Bowie's wit would not be surprised to discover that Blackstar's art was full of symbolism -- as well as a number of Easter Eggs for fans to discover.
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Before they were the ZZ Top hitmakers of "Sharp Dressed Man" and "La Grange," they were passing themselves off as The Zombies, bassist Dusty Hill recalled in 2016.
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When Wells was 16, she met an assistant to Berry Gordy Jr. of Motown Records, who brought her in to present a song she'd written for Jackie Wilson. Motown signed her and she recorded the song, "Bye Bye Baby," herself. She paired up with Smokey Robinson, and the result was a string of hits.
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When bands break up, it's usually because the members got into a fight or there were creative differences between the group and their management. But there are those few instances when bands fragment because they thought they weren't successful. The Zombies believed that when they broke up in 1967.
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Music and television changed forever in 1981, when MTV began broadcasting over America's nascent cable television systems. The very first music video played on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. This is what it was really like to be the first music video on MTV.
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Credited with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer rightfully holds a rarefied place in literary history. But, much like the fictional events in those epic poems, Homer might not have existed.
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Actress and humorist Carrie Fisher had an incredibly unusual life story. As the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher earned an iconic role in the original Star Wars trilogy. But behind Princess Leia was the tragic story of drug addiction, bipolar disorder, and sour marriages.
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Yes, it's probably exactly what you suspect: Indy 500 racers pee in their suits. But you would too if you were as short on time as they are during a race. A pit crew is forced to change all the car's tires in a little as six seconds, so where do you expect the driver to find time to get to a toilet?
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Had Chuck Norris actually been married to his Total Gym co-spokesperson Christie Brinkley, as the internet likes to tell you, it would have been pretty awkward when his real wife, Gena, had a cameo in one of their exercise equipment infomercials in 2009.
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Petty's friendship with Harrison actually goes much deeper than just making music. The two forged a deep, lasting friendship from the moment they first met, almost like brothers. Petty's biographer said that "no matter how corny it might sound, they were kind of falling in love with each other."
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Destiny's Child as most people know it, comprised of Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, started off with different members. One of those former members is LaTavia Roberson. Roberson joined Destiny's Child in the '90s, when it was still called Girl's Tyme.
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Before the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, there were few people in this world closer to him than bandmate Dave Grohl and Cobain's wife, Courtney Love. Who knows how close Grohl and Love were to each other before Cobain's passing? But after Cobain's death, things got pretty heated.
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names were being entered into the Hall of Fame left and right, but not the "Macho Man." For years, there was speculation over why Savage had been kept out. Savage left the WWE and hopped over to the WCW in 1994, and many believe it was the drama surrounding the wrestler's exit that kept him out.
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Lots of bands have that one guy they'd rather you forget, and Bon Jovi is no exception ... well, until very recently. For over a decade, at the height of their fame, the band with some of the biggest hairdos in pop music was living on a prayer that no one would notice the old guy among their ranks: Hugh McDonald.
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Chuck Norris is known for many things. He's Walker, Texas Ranger. He was a world-class martial artist who acted in movies with the famed Bruce Lee. The guy created his own martial arts style and his own fighting league. He's something else, too.
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If you know anything about the crazy life of Rick James, who reached super-stardom in the 1980s with hits like "Give It to Me, Baby" and "Super Freak" (and also once caught himself on fire while smoking crack), you won't be surprised to hear that he once physically attacked Carlton.
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Osbourne met Thelma Riley in 1971 at a nightclub just as his band, Black Sabbath, was really taking off. They soon married and, according to Osbourne, "we had two children, Jessica and Louis. We bought a house for 20,000 pounds, I thought, 'I have arrived.' Not realizing it was a giant mirage."
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While in the Great White North, James got by gigging on the drums for jazz bands and immersed himself in a new world of sex, drugs, and music. This is where he began the transformation that would end in the controversial character that the public came to know and love as the flammable Rick James.
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Michael Musto wrote in a 2017 Village Voice article that White admitted that Arthur "was not fond of me." it was White's positive attitude that caused Arthur to become angry at her. "Sometimes if I was happy, she'd be furious," White said about her costar, a woman she often found reserved.
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A classic example of the comedic double act, straight man Bud Abbott and funny man Lou Costello starred in two movies a year at the peak of their popularity, and went on to influence generations of comedians who followed along after them.
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Will Lee, the actor who played kindly grocery store owner Mr. Hooper, had died in December 1982. The show's producers were left with a conundrum: How do they address Mr. Hooper's absence from the show to the children who depend on seeing him there?
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You're five to eight times as likely to die in a BASE jumping incident than you are in a skydiving accident. The mortality rate averages one death out of every 2,317 jumps, says the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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