The Tom Petty Song That Was Inspired By Prince
Many people may not know that Petty was greatly influenced by Prince and the musical risks he took throughout his career. In fact, Prince inspired one of the more popular songs Petty wrote.
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Here's How ZZ Top's Dusty Hill Shot Himself In The Stomach
"I don't believe in regrets at all," said ZZ Top bassist and singer Dusty Hill. It's a heck of an attitude, and likely something that served him well when -- speaking of agonizing -- he accidentally shot himself in the ZZ Middle with a derringer.
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Tony Iommi Almost Wasn't A Part Of Black Sabbath. Here's Why
Though Ozzy Osbourne commands the face of Black Sabbath, it's Tony Iommi who has always been there, with band members circulating around him like planets around the sun. Just as many can't imagine "Iron Man" or "Paranoid" without Osbourne's croon, imagine it without Iommi's guitar. You can't.
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The Real Reason The Police Broke Up
Remember when the Beatles broke up? Well, it was a huge thing at the time, the end of an era, as well as a creative partnership that had entertained and inspired not only audiences but other musicians throughout most of the sixties. Fate took its own sweet time with the Police, too.
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The Reason Alex Van Halen Sued His Ex-Wife
Divorces are often messy, especially when money, and rock 'n roll get involved.
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One Of The Decade's Highly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Is Now On Netflix
Guess what? Cloud Atlas has come to Netflix.
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This Is Keith Richards' Favorite Drug
If you have the money to spend and you want a fine wine, you go to a respected sommelier. Looking for the apex of vehicular reliability? You might ask a renowned engineer, mechanic, or one of those Top Gear guys.
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The Real Reason K-Pop Stars Earn So Little Money
The starving artist stands as a trope, embodying any hope for earning anything with a creative or entertaining pursuit. The world expects these vocations not to make money. However, calling them "slave contracts," the term for a type of contract that's rife in the K-pop industry, is troublingly on the nose.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk is an icon, the first non-incumbent openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. Here's the tragic story of Harvey Milk.
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The Real Reason Michael McDonald Became The Voice Of The Doobie Brothers
Michael McDonald was part of Steely Dan for a period in the 1970s, providing backing and lead vocals, as well as keyboards, for performances and recordings. In 1975, The Doobie Brothers came calling.
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The Beatles Hit Song That John Lennon Couldn't Stand
The Beatles wrote some of the best songs in music history. Everyone has their favorite and least favorite tunes — even the band members.
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The Real Reason Grace Slick Became The Singer Of Jefferson Airplane
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.
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What Life Was Like For Prospectors In The Wild West
1865 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.
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The Real Reason Steve Perry Left Journey
Steve 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.
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The Truth About Tupac And Biggie's Notorious Beef
The 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.
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The Eagles' Don Henley Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
Don 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.
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Joe Elliott From Def Leppard Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
Hard 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.
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The Truth About Kurt Cobain's Solo Project
In 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.
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Here's How Pearl Jam Got Their Name
There 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.
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The Famous Jingle You Didn't Know The Rolling Stones Wrote
The 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.
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What Happens To Your Body When You Compulsively Lie
We 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?
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The Truth About Bob Dylan's Relationship With The Beatles
It 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.
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Why Frances Bean Cobain Got A Restraining Order Against Courtney Love
Frances 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...
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What Really Happens To Your Body When You Take A Polygraph Test
Although 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.
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This Is What Erykah Badu Does For A Living Today
R&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.
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The Real Meaning Behind Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear The Reaper'
We 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?
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The Truth About Chuck Berry's Time In Prison
A 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.
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