"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Steiner sells real estate in Georgia. That's right: you can buy land in the Peach State from a world tag team champion. He's still got the goatee, but he kicked the spandex and his iconic headgear, usually opting for the classic dad look of a pastel polo shirt and jeans (every job has its uniform).
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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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