There are few original indie rock bands that inspire as much fandom, nostalgia, and adoration as the Pixies. Part of their mystique is of course the reportedly deep, jealousy-fueled rivalry between frontman and guitarist Charles Thompson IV aka Black Francis and bassist and vocalist Kim Deal.
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Here is the story of famous albums like Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever, and Boston's debut album that almost got shelved.
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In 1986, The Clash definitely ended in whimper. Thirteen years afterwards, Joe Strummer, their lead singer and rhythm guitarist, would give various interpretations regarding what happened to the band. "When The Clash collapsed," he explained, "we were tired."
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It looked like Grohl was destined for music before he ever tried out for Nirvana. Or did it?
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In 1966 and 1967, Robert Plant had been the singer for the band Listen; they were still under contract with CBS Records. Writing for his new band, which was signed with Atlantic Records, would count as a breach of contract. The result: He remained anonymous on an album that would make his career.
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Tragically, feuds and shifting careers have led Simon & Garfunkel to reunite and break up many times over.
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Petty didn't find modern music appealing at all and was disappointed by what he discovered. For him, classical legends were inspirational. The turning point for the singer was meeting musical icon Elvis Presley as a 11-year-old.
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Barry White had a successful career and is often remembered for his love ballads, but his life wasn't easy. This is Barry White's tragic real-life story.
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Blindness wasn't the only hardship Ray Charles faced. This is his tragic real-life story.
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From a very young age, Grammy-award winning guitarist Eric Clapton was known as an above-average student with a penchant for art.
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Tracii Guns was hanging around stage before a gig for his band, L.A. Guns, when another young man performed a mic check. "Oh s---," Guns recalled thinking to AL, "who is this guy?"
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Petty, who grew up in Gainesville, Florida, went to a local music store to learn to play the guitar. There he met a teacher: Don Felder, future Eagles member.
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Country superstar Tammy Wynette's real-life story was riddled with the tragedy of four failed marriages and chronic abdominal health problems.
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DJ Jam Master Jay was integral to early hip-hop as part of Run-DMC, but he was shot to death in 2002 in a case that went unsolved until 2024.
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Although Steven Adler was the classic drummer of Guns N' Roses, he wasn't the original. That honor goes to Rob Gardner.
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With The Runaways dissolved, Joan Jett's instincts reached out for another band. An ad reading "Joan Jett wants three good men" appeared in the classifieds and when Lee Crystal, Gary Ryan, and Ricky Bird made it through auditions, the first iteration of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts was formed.
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It was love at first note when Rick James heard R&B singer Teena Marie wailing in the Motown Records L.A. headquarters.
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When a van in which she was a passenger accidentally struck and killed a Honduran boy who shared her last name, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes saw a connection.
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Ah, the good old days of MTV, back when music was music, and MTV played and showed plenty of it. Those days are gone. Here's why.
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When singer Thom Yorke calls one of the band's own songs the most "hopeless" out of anything they've ever written, that's a sign that there's some seriously heavy, tragic, and horrifically mournful music at hand.
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While countless naysayers of the post-grunge four-piece will rip apart their music, others will point out a less-frequented topic of debate in the Nickelback sphere: the fact that many of their songs sound almost exactly the same.
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The last 12 months of Bob Marley's life were marked by his deteriorating health due to melanoma and the release of his final album "Uprising."
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Loretta Lynn has gone through a lot, and her career has been massively successful. As such, her net worth is frankly massive. Here's how much she's worth.
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The Pawn Stars have had some very rare and expensive items come and go through their historic shop in Las Vegas, and some of their most valuable commodities have come in the form of band memorabilia. Here's some of the most expensive band memorabilia seen on Pawn Stars.
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The early seventies marked a joyous time for Eagles member Joe Walsh. He married then-Boston University student Stefany Rhodes, welcomed oldest daughter Emma Kristen in 1971, and moved west to Boulder, Colorado a few short months later ... However, a terrible death would soon shake the household.
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Myland's contributions to Grateful Dead came to a screeching halt when he passed away after a 1990 tour finale at the World Music Theater.
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Most of us have "the one that got away," and apparently, even rockstars do, too. For Stevie Nicks, the one that got away was Eagle's frontrunner, Joe Walsh.
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