If you want to excel in your field of study, it's a good idea to take a close look to folks who've been knocking it out of the park for years. And if you're trying to become a better martial artist, there are worse places to look than to Donnie Yen Ji-dan.
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John Denver was actually Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., while Doris Day was born Doris Kappelhoff. It should come as no surprise, then, that when Johnny Cash first signed with Sun Records, they were skeptical about the "Cash" moniker.
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After weeks of speculation, on March 24th, 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo would be postponed until 2021. The move came in response to concerns regarding the continuing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If you're looking for uncompromising country music, you could do a lot worse than picking up a Merle Haggard record. From "Sing Me Back Home" to "Mama Tried" to "Misery and Gin," the Hag gave the world some of the greatest classics of the genre ...
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Carlos Santana has not led an easy life. From his difficult youth playing guitar in seedy Mexican bars to a bad bout of tuberculosis when he was 19, things could have gone very badly for him. Thankfully, things smoothed out over time. Here's how much money he's accumulated.
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In 1975, Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel quit the band. Here's why.
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The rock supergroup The Traveling Wilburys featured George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lyne. Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. That's rock-and-roll heaven right there. Country music got the jump on them, though, with Highwayman, the debut album of The Highwaymen in 1985.
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Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most famous composers ever, but his life was full of heartbreak and loss. Here are some of the unhappy details of the tragic real-life story of Beethoven.
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When Kenny Rogers died March 20, 2020, at the age of 81, he'd had a good run in several aspects of show business. Among the lesser known of his contributions may be the fact that he helped the Eagles get their start.
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2020 has had an incredibly rough start, thanks in no small part to the novel coronavirus. But in March 2020, to the joy of ears everywhere, a diamond shined through that roughness — specifically, a Neil Diamond.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she felt freer in prison than she did growing up with her mother. This is the story of her tragic childhood.
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Johnny Cash's met his first wife, Vivian Liberto, shortly before he shipped out to Germany with the Air Force. According to SFGate, they exchanged some 10,000 pages of love letters during his enlistment. They married when he returned in 1954.
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"Free Bird" has become a running joke to request the song at concerts. During Skynyrd's concerts, the song might last an extra 5 minutes, or slightly more than a ding-a-length. It didn't start off that way, though. So how did "Free Bird" become a run-on song?
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Lee was born in San Francisco, but moved to Honk Kong with his family when he was three years old. When he was 18, he returned to the US. Why? Well, the story goes...
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If there's one band that's synonymous with the heavy metal genre, it's Metallica, and not just because they have the word "metal" in their very name. Here's how precious, monetarily speaking, their metal is.
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Among the many public events and groups impacted by the pandemic, the novel coronavirus has struck the international athletic community, causing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to announce postponement of the 2020 Summer Games and Paralympics, originally scheduled for Tokyo, Japan.
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Billy Joel has been around for a long time, and written enough hits that even if you've never paid attention to the guy, you probably recognize at least half a dozen of his tunes. But while songs like "Piano Man" are part of our everyday life, it seems he hasn't been up to much in recent years.
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Elon Musk has opinions. Recently, the Tesla founder expressed his opinions about the current coronavirus pandemic on Twitter. He thinks that it's, and this is a quote, "dumb." That statement might have had to do with what it did to his bank account.
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Johnny Cash, or J.R. Cash, as he was born, had a widely varied career. Most associated with show business, he was also an ordained minister, dealing with the Ring of Fire on multiple fronts.
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Truly, there have been very few people who can even think of attempting to do what Bruce Lee did in his specialized art of ... cha-cha dancing. Wait, hold on. What?
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With millions of people confronting the prospect of unexpected expenses and unprecedented levels of unemployment, you might be asking yourself: How is billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doing financially, during all of this?
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Mick Fleetwood liked doing drugs, and in the late 1970s it was possible to afford thousands of dollars worth of cocaine in any given month just by being the drummer from Fleetwood Mac. He would end up bankrupt because of it. This is the stunning amount of money Mick Fleetwood blew on drugs.
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Don't watch these movies with your parents. None of you will have a good time.
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The Romanovs were assassinated in 1918, but that’s just the final act of their heartbreaking story. From troubled romances to major health issues, here’s the tragic real-life story of the Romanovs, the last imperial rulers of Russia.
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What if Bruce Lee had a temper? Imagine how horrifying a guy with his skillset would be, should he have a propensity for temperamental outbursts. That's scary, and also worthy of further investigation.
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After the stock market plunge of early 2020, how is Bezos faring?
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If you're not familiar with the name Randy Rhoads, chances are you've still heard him play. Rhoads was the virtuoso guitar player who shredded on Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo records, and a major part why the Ozzman managed to pick himself up from the slump he'd been in ...
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