The Truth About Keith Richards' Batmobile
Acid and presumably other drugs were brought along for Richards' journeys thanks to a hidden compartment installed specifically for stashing illicit substances.
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The Truth About The Black Sox Scandal Of 1919
The Black Sox Scandal ushered in a new era in professional baseball. Here is the truth of the Black Sox Scandal of 1919.
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The Untold Truth Of Boy George
Boy George has been in the public eye for many years as the lead singer of Culture Club and a solo artist. Here is more about the life of Boy George.
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This Is What Happened To Tony Iommi's Fingers
Iommi is generally considered one of the best rock guitarists of all time, a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Those are crazy feats when you consider he's missing a couple crucial body parts needed for that whole guitar playing thing: Iommi is sans the top ⅓ of two fingers on his right hand.
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The Original Machine Gun Kelly Wasn't A Musician
Kelly, born George Kelly Barnes in 1895, started his life of crime as a bootlegger. He was the last person you'd think would become a criminal. Born to a relatively wealthy family in Memphis, Tennessee, he attended Mississippi State University (some records said he went to Mississippi A&M).
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Why Ringo Starr Was Hospitalized For A Year When He Was A Kid
To top it all off, after six months he was finally on the mend, and got so excited one day that he fell out of bed "and ripped open all these stitches in my stomach," requiring doctors to "dive in again and sew me up." All told, young Ringo ended up staying in the hospital for a year.
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The Tragic Death Of Pantera's Vinnie Paul
Pantera wasn't exactly known for its luck. Sure, the band was famous and all, but their story is full of tragedy and loss. Their legacy is a mix of headbanging metalheads rocking to their tunes and of news headlines breaking stories that fans never wanted to hear.
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The Unexpected Keanu Reeves Thriller That's Dominating Netflix
Let's be clear: Knock Knock is disturbing and excessively anxiety-inducing, as one Twitter user reports, but not necessarily because of its horror elements. Without spoiling the plot, the most messed-up things about Knock Knock are its believable parts, not its camp.
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The Tragic Death Of The Allman Brothers Band's Berry Oakley
Allman Brothers Band bassist Berry Oakley undoubtedly helped to define the Georgia-based band as a force to be reckoned with in the early 1970s. After the death of Duane Allman, Oakley never recovered. A year after his death, Oakley got into a similar accident and died.
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The Surprising Reason Dollywood Doesn't Have Recycling
Visitors to the theme park have noticed there weren't any recycling bins. Does Dolly Parton not recycle? Does she not see how important the environment is? Calm down. Our queen isn't doing the environment dirty. Dollywood is actually very green. The park uses a different method of saving the planet.
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The Truth Behind Alice Cooper And The Chicken Incident
We're talking about the time Alice Cooper bit the head off of a live chicken in front of his fans. Crazy, right? There's only one problem with that popular tale: It isn't true. But take heart. The real story isn't any less gruesome, and it does involve a chicken. So, here's what really happened.
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Times Disney Movies Were Historically Accurate
Disney movies aren't known for their historical accuracy. But there are rare times when Disney movies have been historically accurate.
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The Amazing Life Of Comedy Legend Dan Aykroyd
Behind Dan Aykroyd's amazing impersonations and sketches is the story of a musician and writer with intense fascinations with UFOs, ghosts, and police.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of The Last Member Of The Yahi
In his lifetime, Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, watched his people be wiped off the Earth. This is the last member of the Yahi's tragic life story.
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The Truth About Alex Trebek's Wrestlemania Appearance
Alex Trebek, the longtime host of Jeopardy! has died at 80 years old, according to a statement on the show's official Twitter account. One organization that posted a remembrance to him was the WWE, as Alex Trebek once hosted Wrestlemania.
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This Was The Game Show James Holzhauer Was On Before Jeopardy
James Holzhauer appeared on The Chaser in 2014, about five years before he landed on Jeopardy!, and did pretty well for himself. From the beginning, Holzhauer was a quiz show master. Questions are thrown at him rapid-fire, and Holzhauer knocks them out of the park, one after the other.
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The Tragic Death Of The Dynamite Kid
Thomas Billington, aka the Dynamite Kid, found fame wrestling as part of the British Bulldogs in the 1980s. Sadly, things wouldn't end well for the wrestler.
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A Look Into Keith Richards' Incident At The Playboy Mansion
Richards and saxophonist Bobby Keys "played it a little far" when they stole their tour doctor's bag and snuck off to the bathroom at the Playboy Mansion.
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The Tragic Death Of Johnny Thunders
"He was walking death," Joe Perry said of Thunders' lowest point in the 1980s. "Every time I ran into him, he was desperately trying to get from hour to hour. You'd hear that he'd tried to clean up, and then he'd be back living on the street again."
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This Is How Ghost Hunters Got Its Start
For the moment, let us put aside the mountain of evidence -- that's right: real, tangible, plentiful evidence, not electromagnetic blips -- that Ghost Hunters is totally fake, and focus on the show's origin story. It starts, as all good ghost stories do, with a skeptic who started seeing things.
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The Odd Story Behind Randy Travis's First Marriage
When Frank told his wife to choose between him and Randy, Lib and Randy moved to their own place. As Lib told People, "I never spoke to the man again. Randy might have given me the courage to leave a bad situation, but Randy did not break up the marriage."
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What You Don't Know About The Black Crowes
Robinson had been telling the crowds, "This is live rock 'n' roll being brought to you commercial free." The company running the tour, Lone Wolf Productions, saw it as a slam against Miller Beer, the tour's corporate sponsor, so they fired the band.
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Inside Keith Richards' Surprisingly Nerdy Childhood
There's a reason for the saying, "the only two things to survive a nuclear war would be cockroaches and Keith Richards." Since one might think there's nothing about Keith Richards that could possibly shock anyone now, it's particularly surprising to learn that he had an extremely nerdy childhood.
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What Really Happened To Fetty Wap's Eye?
An accident in his early childhood left him in the hospital for "six or seven months." In fact, despite rumors that the 29-year-old was shot in the eye, Wap actually attributes the loss of his left eye to a childhood disease, congenital glaucoma.
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This Is Why Kenny Rogers Didn't Drink Alcohol
Music history is full of performers who were far too wasted to give the people what they paid to see, but Kenny wasn't one of them. Just like the card player of his most famous song, Rogers knew when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, and when it came to booze, he decided to just never ante up.
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The Strange Urban Legend About Rod Stewart
Stewart himself didn't address the wild story at all for many years. Maybe he figured his career was doing fine in spite of some people's beliefs about his leisure-time activities. And publicity is publicity, no matter what. Spell the name right, right?
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The Tragic Death Of The Hilton Sisters
They'd sing, play music, and go through a number of routines to keep the eyes looking their way. This would lead to a couple of stints in Hollywood before their death in the late 1960s. Unfortunately, the Hilton sisters didn't reach fame by living easy lives, and their deaths were equally tragic.
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