There were always two kinds of people: Those who loved The Dave Matthews Band and those who loved to make fun of those who loved them. After the 2000s, both types went quiet. The Dave Matthews Band's popularity has waned in what could be argued as a "natural course," but they didn't disappear.
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According to Rolling Stone, Wilkeson was among the most severely injured in the Skynyrd plane crash. Reports indicated he suffered massive internal injuries, as well as a smashed jaw, broken nose and facial bones, 15 dislodged teeth, six broken ribs, and a broken left arm and leg.
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Hair metal was unbelievably popular throughout the '80s, but the '90s weren't so kind. Want to know what happened to various famous '80s hair bands since?
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Tom Petty's soul is in his music, centered on authenticity. Petty radiated a "keep it real" outlook -- vinyl records, Stratocaster guitars, vintage gear.
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Mötley Crüe wouldn't be what we know and enjoy today if it weren't for guitarist Mick Mars. He's been shredding with them from the beginning and continues.
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Most popular bands have made a bad record. For Van Halen, the consensus seems to be that 1998's Van Halen III tops the worst album list. Not too surprising, really. Any sequels with a three in the name really never measure up, do they?
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When Jay-Z released 2013's Magna Carta ... Holy Grail, critics were particularly savage, as The Atlantic recounts. Pretentious, portentous "dad rap" written by a "bored first-class denizen on his fourth Bloody Mary ordering opulent, au courant, marvelously vapid beats out of a SkyMall catalog."
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"The first phone call said his son was sick," tour manager Richard Cole told Express. "And the second phone call, unfortunately, Karac had died in that time." Plant's son Karac was just five years old when he died of a stomach virus.
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With the band Lynyrd Skynyrd having so much tragedy surrounding it, it's not a far stretch to assume that the band's members each had their own tragic lives.
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By the early '60s the brothers were fighting constantly. Said Phil, "There were too many people making too much money off us, keeping us going. Things were too confused. We should have taken a long rest. But ... we couldn't."
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Axl Rose has an attitude that has put fans into a love-hate relationship with him. Rose and GNR bandmate Slash had a love-hate relationship of their own.
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There may some good news on the horizon for those of us who worried that we'd never hear another new Van Halen song again.
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The highly-publicized feud between Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys first started in 1966, when Love purportedly criticized their upcoming album Pet Sounds. While Brian Wilson and Mike Love are wildly successful musicians, ego, lawsuits, and creative disputes are at the center of a feud.
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They also sued Stapp for $1.2 million dollars in 2018, claiming he refused to tour with them to promote their 2017 album The Madness. Brother bandleaders Johnathan and Vincent Votta said they advanced Stapp $200,000 to sing, but Stapp only showed up for 18 of the 40 gigs they'd booked.
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The Violent Femmes could be considered an underappreciated band of the late '80s and early '90s, but whose innovative music gave them a cult following.
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Tensions ramped up between the two during the making of the 1980 album Women and Children First, particularly when it came to shooting the album cover and inset photos with provocative fashion photographer Helmut Newton.
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Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes climbed to fame in the 1960s with hits like "Be My Baby" and "Walking in the Rain." But her story was full of tragedy.
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The X&Y cover features a Tetris game in the middle of a dark blue background. When the album was first released, MTV said people didn't understand what was going on in the album. Was Coldplay just closet Tetris fans? The band teased that there was something deeper and people started staring.
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Sandoval, in the Refinery 29 interview, describes a highly sensitive, artistic process of crafting stories and music, saying, "We like to take our time experimenting with different ideas and creating new sounds until we feel satisfied that we've accomplished something mind-expanding."
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St. Anger was released in June 2003 and looked like it might be Metallica's final album. The band's bassist, Jason Newsted, left just before production.
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The Cranberries were one of the biggest bands of the 90s, and singer Dolores O'Riordan made the band's songs hits.
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Despite his overwhelming talent, Bobby DeBarge had a darker side that eventually made its way into the spotlight.
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Emhoff was born in Brooklyn on October 13, 1964, and moved to California as a teen. He is Jewish, which would make him the first Jewish spouse of a United States vice president. He graduated from the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law and worked as an entertainment litigator.
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As MTV reported, Manson and the other members felt they'd had enough. Manson unequivocally said the band was on a hiatus, though many thought they had broken up. Manson said recording and touring for Bleed Like Me had been difficult for all band members. They just needed time away from each other.
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Almost as famous as the bad boy's image and his music was his reputation for partying. Points in Idol's life were filled with drugs, women, and alcohol. The musician had struggles that mirror those of a number of rock stars. These struggles contributed to his horrific motorcycle accident in 1990.
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Chances are, you didn't know about Criss Angel until 2005. No one did, really. Not by name anyway. But he's been cranking out tunes longer than magic.
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Notably, Bowie himself doesn't appear on the album art -- a career first for the stylish artist, according to The Guardian. But anyone familiar with Bowie's wit would not be surprised to discover that Blackstar's art was full of symbolism -- as well as a number of Easter Eggs for fans to discover.
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