Guitarist-singer-songwriter Glenn Frey was always an essential piece of the Eagles puzzle, and whenever he wasn't out Eagles-ing, his solo career was also a force to be reckoned with. But what about his net worth?
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Bruce Dickinson was not exactly the first person to hold the Maiden microphone. That honor belongs to Paul Di'Anno, who sang on the band's first two records. Here's why he left.
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Genesis wasn't Phil Collins' first drumming audition, and Collins certainly wasn't the first drummer Genesis auditioned. But he had a secret.
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Green Day may technically be affiliated with punk, but their bank accounts are a lot closer to the wealthy businessmen that the movement likes to criticize. Let's see just how much the members of Green Day are really worth.
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John Panozzo started drumming at age 8, tutored by an uncle who helped shape a style that eventually resulted in Styx, a legendary arena-rock band of the 1970s and '80s.
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Marvin Gaye gifted the world with so much in his short tenure on Earth. Most would say he owed us nothing else -- but maybe not the IRS.
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Bret Michaels is a rock star, and a Rock of Love. But has he turned all the glam metal into precious metals and cash? How much is he really worth?
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With Angus Young's horn signs and the band's copious "Hell's Bells" imagery, it's easy to believe that the biggest controversies regarding AC/DC might have been of the devil-worshiping variety. Back in the day, it seems that one of the most curious things about the band was ... their name.
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After his passing, Yoko Ono is reported to have had her husband John Lennon's body cremated. But where are his ashes scattered?
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Ready for a stunning revelation? Make sure you're sitting down, not operating heavy machinery, and preferably barefoot because this news would knock your socks off so fast you'd suffer third-degree friction burns. Okay, you ready? Sometimes famous musicians abuse drugs. Including Slash.
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Phil Collins should need no introductions, but in case you've managed to avoid his name, including his work with Genesis, here's how he became the singer.
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Regardess of everything else Lennon was (and he was a lot), there's one thing he certainly was: Filthy rich.
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Six years isn't such an age gap in a relationship, married or otherwise, ahead or behind. It maybe gets a little more problematic when the groom is 21 and the bride is 15. Somehow, Loretta Webb and Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn made it work.
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Scott Weiland was a charismatic frontman who played a huge part in the Stone Temple Pilots' success, but eventually parted ways with his most famous band. What could have prompted him to do so? What was the real reason Scott Weiland left Stone Temple Pilots? Let's find out!
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Everybody has known that one couple, maybe from high school: They're together, they broke up, they made up, they broke up ... Maybe we kind of expect it with, well, art people. Like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
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Why did John Cena, now ten years deep in an iconic career as the guy you get to cameo when you can't afford The Rock, give up on dropping sick beats? Theories have been floated for years, the most prominent of these being that his debut album, You Can't See Me, was simply too good for the world.
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From hip-hop stars to opera singers and everyone in between, quite a few influential and popular musicians have contracted the coronavirus.
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Freddie Mercury was a verbal virtuoso -- one of his many talents. Here are some of his most inspiring, and just plain entertaining quotes.
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Bill Withers, who gave us such classic songs as "Lean on Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine," was a 32-year-old laid-off factory worker when he got two letters: one from the factory, inviting him back to work, and the other from The Tonight Show, inviting him to appear. He chose correctly.
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You know the blonde, spiky hair, you know the sneer. It's Billy Idol, and though the 1980s are long over, he's still around. But what about his money? Is that still here?
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There are precious few statements that all music fans can wholeheartedly agree on, but it's probably fair to say that "Jimi Hendrix was a very good guitarist" is one of them. But would he live long enough to see the fruits of his success?
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There are a couple of schools of thought concerning the events which led Chuck Berry to hit Keith Richards so hard that his life Jumpin' Jack Flashed before his eyes. Here they are.
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The Doobie Brothers have had a truly glorious and long-lasting career that's made doubly more impressive by the fact that it's been in the highly volatile world of rock 'n' roll. But has it left anything in the musicians' pockets, or has the rock star life left them penniless?
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The list of musicians who died in plane crashes includes solo icons but also partial or entire bands. Here are plane crashes that nearly wiped out entire bands.
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It would be easy to assume that Ringo Starr decided to leave the Beatles due to ego. Shockingly, it wasn't ego that drove Ringo to leave the Fab Four mid-recording session on August 22nd, 1968. To hear it described by those involved, it was the opposite: he didn't feel good enough.
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Benjamin Franklin is generally considered a somewhat eccentric genius. The man's accomplishments span several different fields... including music.
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Take a moment to let the following sentence sink in: One time, Keith Richards fired a guy for doing too many drugs. That man was Brian Jones.
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