The pair put out hit song after hit song, including "It's Gonna Work Out" and "Poor Fool." Tina and Ike worked with record producer Phil Spector. The duo covered "Proud Mary," announcing their entrance into the pop world. But underneath all that success was a marriage that was becoming a nightmare.
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Armstrong described Capone as "a nice, little cute fellow, like some professor who has just come out of college to teach." But Louis would eventually find himself with other dangerous players in the seedy criminal underworld of the Roaring Twenties.
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The Village People made some of the happiest music ever, with hits like "Y.M.C.A." Here are the tragic stories of the individuals behind the Village People.
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It seems to be a common situation within the world of A-list celebrities: lots of rock stars want to be movie stars, and lots of movie stars want to be rock stars. It turns out that even Keanu Reeves couldn't resist the urge to walk off the soundstage and onto the arena stage.
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Polyandry, when a woman takes two or more husbands, has been found in many cultures throughout history. In the 18th and 19th century, for instance, women in China ruled the roost and sometimes took more than one husband. Who knew the 1800s could be so progressive?
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A concert ought to be a fun night out, but occasionally, the entertainment fades and tragedy emerges. Here are several times fans died at concerts.
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Generations have given rap their own spin, evolving their techniques and the sound of the music in the process. Can it really be fair to compare the early innovators to those more technically advanced who emerged decades later, thanks to the influence of those that came before them?
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Dave Grohl has managed to use his success to move around into oceanfront properties, including his new house in Hawaii during the pandemic.
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Led Zeppelin was set to play a show in Copenhagen, Denmark. They'd made an important Danish enemy in the past: Eva Von Zeppelin.
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Although the broadcast honored the truly big names in country music who died this year, such as Charlie Daniels, Mac Davis, and Kenny Rogers, the show failed to mention three other legends that country music lost in 2020: John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Billy Joe Shaver.
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The multi-talented singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers worked in the music business for over six decades, achieving international success with hits like "Lucille," "Islands In The Stream," and of course, his iconic single, "The Gambler." This is how Kenny Rogers' music career started.
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The Bee Gees are musical legends who made their mark in the 1970s, becoming prime artists of the disco era. This is the tragic real-life story of the Bee Gees.
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Kelly, born George Kelly Barnes in 1895, started his life of crime as a bootlegger. He was the last person you'd think would become a criminal. Born to a relatively wealthy family in Memphis, Tennessee, he attended Mississippi State University (some records said he went to Mississippi A&M).
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As Karen Carpenter struggled to overcome her eating disorders, she found love -- or so she thought.
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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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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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Huey Lewis & the News were the kings of music for a few precious years in the 1980s. Here's a look at the real-life story of Huey Lewis.
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Musician Lenny Kravitz is known for producing several hit albums such as Are You Gonna Go My Way. Here are just a few fascinating facts about his life.
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John Phillips lead the iconic '60s group Mamas & the Papas. Underneath all the glitz and glamour, however, was immense turmoil, pain, and a lot of darkness.
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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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