The night was October 16, 1966, and the venue was the much-beloved Fillmore West concert venue in San Francisco. Also soon-to-be-much-beloved was the new woman singing lead for Jefferson Airplane, a former floor model for the I Magnin department stores named Grace Slick.
Read More1865 saw the first Wild West showdown, in which gambler Davis Tutt bet on himself to beat "Wild Bill" Hickok and lost his life. But for prospectors, the West was plenty wild long before Hickok busted a cap in Tutt's butt.
Read MoreSteve Perry fronted Journey to its greatest commercial success in the '80s, catapulting the band to arena rock stardom through the likes of "Open Arms" and "Don't Stop Believin'." However, by 1987, despite the triumph of Raised by Radio tour, the band went on hiatus for nearly ten years.
Read MoreThe beef between 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. (Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace) is not only the most well-known and well-documented in rap history, it has come to embody the West Coast-East Coast hip-hop rivalry that took off in the 1990's.
Read MoreDon Henley might look more like friendly uncle than one of the greatest rock stars of all time, but rest assured, the man is most definitely a rock star.
Read MoreHard rock giant Def Leppard has been chugging away since 1977. Through all of it, singer Joe Elliot has been standing at the forefront of his group. Here's how much money he is now worth.
Read MoreIn one of his last interviews with Rolling Stone, Kurt Cobain intimated that Nirvana may have started its downward trajectory — that after a couple more albums, the band would probably dissolve, because the same people completing the same jobs is rather limiting.
Read MoreThere is one enduring mystery about Pearl Jam, though: What, exactly, is up with the name? You can sort of understand where band names like "Nirvana" or "Alice in Chains" are coming from, but "Pearl Jam" just seems like Eddie Vedder and his cohorts picked two random words from a dictionary.
Read MoreThe Rolling Stones formed in 1962, and before all of their success in writing some of the best rock and roll songs to date, they actually wrote a jingle for a cereal commercial.
Read MoreWe all have had an occasion to lie -- sometimes about cherry trees, like George Washington, and other times, just to be polite. There is a difference between social niceties and pathological lying, though. But where is the line, and what happens when we cross it?
Read MoreIt was springtime in 1964, the Beatles were on a tour of France, and they heard Dylan's album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his second studio album, for the first time. And liked it. A lot.
Read MoreFrances Bean Cobain, by name and birthright, is the royal princess of the kingdom of flanel. She's the daughter of Kurt Cobain, legendary frontman of Nirvana, and Courtney Love, the multimedia proto late-stage Randy Quaid of the nineties. After Kurt's death, Frances was raised by a single mother...
Read MoreAlthough they lack the pizzazz of lightsabers, polygraphs — better known as lie detectors — work on the equally fantastical premise that a machine can definitively say whether the subject of the test is lying or not ... and the Supreme Court ruled against them in 1998.
Read MoreR&B diva Erykah Badu still commands a presence. Despite the fact she's still actively making and performing music, though, she's also working a relatively normal job — namely, Badu is a doula.
Read MoreWe can all be grateful to Blue Öyster Cult for a couple of things. Umlauts and cowbell. But when it comes to their timeless classic "Don't Fear the Reaper", what does the song actually mean?
Read MoreA bit of music history was made October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri. That was the day that Charles Edward Anderson Berry -- you probably know him as Chuck -- entered the world and began a life journey that would alter popular music as we know it. But his youthful innocence would soon fade.
Read MoreScottie Pippen repeatedly rose to basketball's highest peak, but he had a very rough life. Here's the tragic story of Scottie Pippen.
Read MoreMick Jagger is a lot of things. As the singer of the Rolling Stones, he is the voice of legendary hits like "Sympathy for the Devil," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and "Gimme Shelter." He's also reportedly ... an enemy of the Queen?
Read MoreThe Wild West was a bit more nuanced than tough, no-nonsense dudes talking some god-fearin' sense into a wild and unforgiving land. Here's what life was really life for explorers.
Read MoreAll airplanes must eventually touch down and refuel, before charting a new course. Such was the case with Jefferson Airplane, which became "Jefferson Starship."
Read MoreDespite Fiona Apple's stunning success, her childhood was anything but easy.
Read MoreIt's been just six years since the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Andrew Garfield's turn as New York's favorite webhead is already buried in the subconscious of the memories of filmgoers, who are now five movies deep in a new new Spider-Man's story. Why?
Read More"Robert Smith is famous for three things: wearing make-up, having big hair, and writing and singing some of the loveliest songs in the English language," TimeOut London wrote about the vocalist in 2018. But personally, Smith wasn't always a huge fan of the style.
Read MoreBack in March, some envisioned a world in which we resorted to toilet paper as the base of our bartering. Now, however, NPR reports that a new fashionable shortage has arrived, meaning we will monetize... Well, money. Specifically coins.
Read MoreIf you could see one band reunite again, which would it be? For many people, the answer would be the Beatles. America almost had its chance to, on none other than Saturday Night Live.
Read MoreDuct tape — or as its commercially known, Flex Tape — can do many things. Flex Tape even has commercials talking about everything it can stick together. And while it's true some things can be fixed with duct tape... don't believe everything.
Read MoreHe comes from the land down under, does Buddy Murphy. The Australian native, born Matthew Adams, originally wrestled in his home country under the name Matt Silva. Now he's climbing the ranks in the WWE.
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