The details of Kanye West's bipolar diagnosis aren't anybody's business but his, but scattered interviews and public comments have given the public a fraction of a look at the tough position of living with both an intense personality disorder and an alien lifestyle of being a musical phenomenon.
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"Before I did the record, we went on tour with Skinny Puppy. That was the first time I played these songs live. It was a somewhat bad experience," said Trent Reznor.
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Most people don't remember watching certain animated movies as children. David Bowie, on the other hand, didn't remember recording an album as a 29-year-old.
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"Polly," which appears in the iconic Nirvana album Nevermind, is a disturbing song that's hard to forget.
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In 1985, Stones frontman Mick Jagger released his debut solo album, She's The Boss, and it nearly struck a killing blow to the band.
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Not every big rocker of the time showed up at Woodstock. Here are some musicians who turned down playing at Woodstock.
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Life for Whitney Houston — and pop music as you know it — may have gone very differently, had the musician made one different choice.
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"He saw two black dots he assumed to be Mallory and Irvine near one of the final ridges before the peak before disappearing into the clouds again. It was the last time both of them were seen alive..."
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Ledbetter, later known as Lead Belly, was born in Louisiana in the late 1880s -- into a life of violence.
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It's a tale as old as time: a young woman encounters a creepy man late at night in a big city. For Debbie Harry, of the iconic rock band Blondie, this encounter was with serial killer Ted Bundy, as Harry recalled in an interview in 1989 — the same year Bundy was executed.
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Having faced down poverty, illness, divorce, and ever-changing public tastes, Cher continues to beat the odds, winning over generation after generation of fans with her unwavering dedication and authenticity. This is Cher's tragic real-life story.
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1980 was a crucial year for John Lennon, who'd emerged from a hiatus ready to make music once again. This is what the final 12 months of his life were like.
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Dave Gahan, the illustrious singer of Depeche Mode, is without a doubt one of rock's great frontmen ... unfortunately, being a rock star can often mean living like a rock star, and Gahan certainly took part in some of the darker undercurrents of fame.
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Artists have their quirks. And some don't feel quite secure in front of all those people unless he's packing heat. And that guy would have been Elvis.
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It's not uncommon that the first musical project that a musician picks up won't be their last. Such was the case with Bruce Springsteen.
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Kris Kristofferson has had a remarkable career and a colorful life. So why did his family disown him?
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Considering that The Wall is one of THE Pink Floyd albums as well as THE concept album, you might suppose being part of the band at the time would be a generally good thing. And it might have been for Roger Waters, but for Richard Wright, Pink Floyd's keyboardist, it lead to his departure.
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The Mamas and the Papas' heyday "was two and a half years of total melodrama," according to member Michelle Phillips.
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Sometimes rebellion comes in the form of butchering the very thing that bands are being used to commodify: their own songs.
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Written during the peak of the grunge movement in the mid 1990s, Irish rock band The Cranberries' 1994 hit "Zombie" bombarded airwaves and marked a new era of success for the group.
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Rock stars are often unpredictable, but David Lee Roth has taken things to another level.
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There's no question that Lee was an extraordinary athlete, teacher, actor, and director. Dying far too young, at 32, only adds to the tragic mystique. Along with the tragedy come stories, bordering on myth, attached to a man whose reality was more than remarkable all by itself.
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On the astronomically slim chance that you're not familiar with Walpurga Hausmännin, here's the inside story, which is actually horribly tragic.
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A full eight years before the shootings at Columbine High School resulted in the deaths of 13 students in Littleton, Colorado, well before school shootings became tragically passe, and before online bullying even existed, Pearl Jam released their 1991 masterpiece "Jeremy."
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Madonna once described her early musical training, playing instruments and writing music for the first time, as "one of the happiest times of my life."
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Kris Kristofferson is one of those people, you look at his life and you think to yourself, "What can't this guy do?" But even his stellar career had its low points.
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Though they've flirted with new wave, rock, Gothic pop and even dance over the years, Depeche Mode have always sounded like themselves, thanks to singer Dave Gahan. Given their success, he must be doing pretty well, right?
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