At a prestigious auction at Sotheby's earlier this month, the plastic crown famously worn by the rap legend Notorious B.I.G. –- who was shot and killed in March 1997 -– was sold for the huge sum.
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Casual Kinks fans may know their greatest hits, many may not be aware that brothers Ray (lead vocals) and Dave Davies (lead guitar) certainly haven't seen eye-to-eye all the time.
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Yoko Ono looms large in most debates over the downfall of the Beatles, but a multitude of factors led to the Fab Four's split. This is the break up of the Beatles explained.
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In 1986, The Clash definitely ended in whimper. Thirteen years afterwards, Joe Strummer, their lead singer and rhythm guitarist, would give various interpretations regarding what happened to the band. "When The Clash collapsed," he explained, "we were tired."
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The tragic death of legendary singer-songwriter and Wham! member George Michael shook the world in December 2016, prompting millions of fans to mourn the world over.
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There wasn't a whole lot of time between college and fame in the comedian's life, but somehow, Tosh managed to find time for a few things before getting into comedy.
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"Trent and I met around the same time that Marilyn Manson was formed," Manson told Guitar World. "We became friends. We had a lot in common."
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Up-and-coming 22-year-old pop singer Christina Grimmie was on the fast track to stardom in 2016 -- until a crazed fan brought everything to a halt.
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When Adult Swim first started to show interest in his TV show idea, Eric Andre was on unemployment. "I had like $200 in my bank account," he told Spin. "I was flat broke."
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While Van Damme had mostly chosen to stay tight-lipped about his romance with the pop star for a long time, he finally snapped during an interview with The Guardian.
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"It's important what we do here. That's what we keep saying. We're shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can." So enthused Robert Scott, one of the co-founders of Further Future, a three day festival that takes place in the Nevadan desert.
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Byrne brought the alleged yeti finger into India, where he met with Stewart and his wife, Gloria. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any information about the conversation that preceded the eventual agreement that the Stewarts would "smuggle the finger into the United Kingdom for research."
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As you might expect, the two don't spend the weekends fishing or setting up model trains. Brandon grew up with a sex symbol mom and rocker dad who had a drinking problem. The parents had a pretty abusive relationship with each other.
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According to CNBC, Petty had a plan. He racked up over a half-million dollars in debt financing a new studio album on his own dime, then sat on it and declared bankruptcy to force MCA into voiding his contract. "If you're bankrupt, all contracts are void," Petty said later of the shrewd move.
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One inevitable truth of life: many bands split. Whether it's from fighting between members, drug or alcohol abuse, or the ever-popular "artistic differences," bands come, and go, and sometimes come back again. But New Wave legend Blondie didn't split up in 1982 for any typical reason.
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Morrissey fully supports the far-right, anti-Muslim British political party UKIP. Despite the party leaders saying absolutely ridiculous hogwash like immigrants are to blame for the country's traffic problem, as The Guardian reports, Morrissey doesn't equate supporting such idiocy with being racist.
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You might be a little sensitive, as well, if you'd been fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden before they went on to become global rock powerhouses. If, however, you ask Kurt or Chris (if you could), they might tell you that Everman was a bit too sensitive from the get-go.
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You're beginning to wonder why your fingers aren't at their peak. They're stiff. They hurt. You might be thinking, "I'm getting too old for video games," but age doesn't have a lot to do with it. Chances are, you have Nintendoitis, a repetitive stress injury.
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Being the inspiration for a children's book probably feels a lot like being a child star: You don't really understand what's going on until you're much older, and by then, the damage has been done. That was what it felt like for Christopher Robin Milne.
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Everyone loves a chance encounter between two icons, and none captures the imagination more than the story of how Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett happened to meet the young -- though already massive -- Andre Rousimoff, later known as the famous wrestler Andre the Giant.
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Ultimately drugs put him in the violent situation that took his life. On November 20, 2012, the triple champion boxer was shot in the head outside of a bar in his hometown of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, in what appeared to have been a drug-related incident.
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We gear up for parties to commemorate the two spookiest holidays of the year: Halloween and the Day of the Dead. A lot of people confuse these traditions, thinking they're basically the same holiday by two different names, and that couldn't be further from the truth.
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These bloopers will make you love wrestling even more than you do already.
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Scott had taken a break for three years before he got back to racing simply because he missed it so much. Scott was driving during the qualifying rounds for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) SuperNationals, moving at about 300 miles an hour when his Funny Car's engine exploded into flames.
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For a guy who's played some seriously terrifying roles in movies, you'd think Walken would be less scared of the physical world, but as he tells The Guardian, "I don't mind dangerous psychic things, but dangerous physical things are -- I don't even go into crowds. I don't go to the airport."
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The need for a purely American origin of baseball, which in American fashion, needs a singular American inventor, was due to a debate raging about where it was invented, if it was a British creation or American. So some men went looking. This is the wacky truth behind the creator of baseball.
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Lee actually starred in over 20 films in Hong Kong before he even turned 18, according to Cheat Sheet. Although he was born in San Francisco, California, his family moved back to Hong Kong soon after his birth, and that's where he got his early start as an actor. His first role was as an infant.
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