In 2014, actual Monkee Mickey Dolenz was a guest on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast and when the topic came up, he confessed, "I just made a joke. 'Everybody auditioned for the Monkees, Stephen Stills, Paul Williams and Charlie Manson!' And everybody took it as gospel. And now it's an urban myth!"
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Rogers shared that he had been offered other endorsement deals, including commercials for cigarettes, beer, and liquor, but he'd turned them down, which is ironic, considering one of his signature songs, "The Gambler," features characters indulging in both whiskey and cigarettes.
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In a post about the new music from SOAD's website, the band writes, "These two songs ... speak of a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon our cultural homelands of Artsakh and Armenia." They say that the "corrupt regimes" of Turkey and Azerbaijan are committing "genocidal acts with impunity."
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The rockstar life was certainly thrilling at first. That amount of excitement took a massive toll after a while, driving O'Riordan to exhaustion. What few fans realize is that O'Riordan showed a preference for a slower pace, a more serene rural lifestyle, similar to the one she grew up with.
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Snuka, whose real name was James Reiher, was born in Fiji, grew up in Hawaii, and also lived in Camden County, New Jersey. After a successful stint as a bodybuilder, he started as a professional wrestler in the 1970s and made his WWE debut in 1982, helping the organization on its skyrocket rise.
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The end of the group would actually occur nearly two decades later, with the tragic death of rapper Phife Dawg, aged just 45, on March 22, 2016. At the time, the Tribe were working on their first album together in 18 years: We Got It from Here ... Thank You 4 Your Service, completed in his absence.
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This version of A Star is Born has an interesting, and unexpected, connection to Pearl Jam lead singer, Eddie Vedder. Vedder, it seems, was the inspiration for Bradley Cooper's character, as stated on the AV Club. And while Cooper was making the film, Vedder had some very specific advice for him.
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Considering Vince McMahon has harbored rivalries with everyone from Triple H (who would go on to be his son-in-law) to Bret "The Hitman" Hart to Randy Orton -- even with his own children Stephanie and Shane -- his actual childhood idol makes a lot more sense.
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The many attractions of Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, include fairway rides, a reproduction of the two-room cabin in which Dolly grew up, an entire water park, and the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary, an enormous aviary measuring 30,000 square feet
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It was "Wind of Change" that has led some to believe that Scorpions were reaching beyond mere musical expression and into the realm of politics. It wasn't just a song about envisioning a free future for all people, as the lyrics say -- oh, no. It was CIA-created propaganda.
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Gregg Allman was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2007, for which he received a liver transplant. In the following years, he would go on to suffer from liver cancer. The band continued to tour, but Gregg's worsening health problems would force them to stop in 2014.
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"Weird Al"'s career really started with "My Bologna," a parody of the Knack's hit "My Sharona," described succinctly by Rolling Stone: "accompanied only by his accordion, the song is a G-rated ode to bologna" which "launched a hugely successful career that is going strong to this day."
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According to NBC Sports, however, Coleman invested his money in development deals in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan in hopes of "trying to turn around a city in need of someone willing to make big moves there."
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Many of Hill's friends and collaborators point to one relationship which has been especially destructive since her 1990s hey-day, a relationship which came into being just as Hill was at her most vulnerable, feeling the pressures of both public life and supporting a family as a working mother.
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Some of the biggest acts around performed, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, but Dylan took a hard pass. What could have been more important?
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The legend is that Johnson entered into a Faustian pact: that his great ability as a guitarist and vocalist was down to Johnson selling his soul to the devil, a deal which took place at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in Mississippi, according to how the legend is recounted by Biography.
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In 1993, the editors of the Midnight Star interviewed "Weird Al"'s drummer, Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, asking about the significance of 27. Said Schwartz: ""There's no significance to those numbers. I asked Al, who evidently hadn't even noticed before. He hesitated, and said, '27 is a funny number.'"
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It is an idea that has captured the imaginations of cryptic-minded listeners and stoned truth-seekers for more than five decades: Paul McCartney, the principal singer-songwriter alongside John Lennon in the Beatles since their formation, is dead after a gruesome car accident around the end of 1966.
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At that point in time, few had any true understanding the mental and physical complexities of anorexia nervosa. And sadly, it took seeing the young, fragile Karen Carpenter wither and waste away before the world's very eyes that made people stand up and take serious notice of the condition.
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Kehew has the dream job of occasionally being allowed into the Warner Bros. vault where the label keeps its decades of musical recordings. The warehouse, "this Indiana Jones-sized place," is full of recordings of musicians ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Madonna to Green Day and, of course, Van Halen.
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The controversial, witty, brash, and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper was a fan favorite back when the WWE was the WWF in the 1980s and early '90s. The mouthy wrestling superstar and somewhat successful actor had a reputation for creating a scene.
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Kitt wasn't done pushing boundaries, and the following year her headstrong attitude and fearlessness in the face of power would land her in hot water with one the country's most powerful and secretive federal agencies.
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There are covers that are absurdly strange, with fans and critics alike agreeing that they flat-out shouldn't exist. Metallica's tribute to Prince in Minneapolis during the WorldWired Tour belongs in the latter category, as their cover of "When Doves Cry" made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Uncharted has occasionally veered into some pretty creepy territory, bringing our dashing hero into contact with genuine monsters and calamities beyond the scope of the natural order of things.
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Nina Simone is known as one of the most prolific vocalists and pianists of 20th-century American music. This is Nina Simone's tragic real-life story.
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These actors have never been in a good movie. In fact, many of them have been in some of the worst movies of all time.
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A Quiet Place, the sneakiest horror thriller in a long time, is downright amazing and guaranteed to make you jump more than once. But as amazing as it is, A Quiet Place has more than a few plot holes and inconsistencies. Here are dumb things in A Quiet Place that everyone just ignored.
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