the success of Damn The Torpedoes made MCA want Hard Promises to be part of their new marketing program, in which records expected to sell particularly well would be priced a dollar more. "Superstar pricing" meant that Hard Promises would sell for $9.98 instead of the then-standard $8.98.
Read MoreThe story of Mac Miller is one we've heard too many times in too many different ways. A young talent finds fast fame and fortune, only to die young. It's a sad tale in some ways, and a story of accomplishment in others. In Mac Miller's 26 years on this Earth, he got a great a deal done.
Read MoreThe band has been up and down and traveled some rocky roads, but all that time, bassist Cliff Williams stuck it out. Until that time he didn't in 2016, anyway. Why, after everything the band had gone through, did Williams decide to step away from the gig? He had his reasons, and it wasn't easy.
Read MoreGiven that the Euthanasia Coaster is designed to kill every one of its passengers, a natural first question is, "Who is the target audience for this thing?"
Read MoreWatts had strangled his wife and children, then he took their bodies out to an oil well, where he buried his wife and hid the girls' bodies in oil tanks.
Read MoreThe cosplayer inside the foam was none other than David Joyner, a man with a list of credentials that either makes him the worst's most interesting man, or the world's best cautionary tale about overly diversified resumes.
Read MoreKnown for its synths and happy tunes, it's surprising to know that so many of the musicians who made such happy disco magic didn't have altogether happy lives.
Read MoreMötley 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.
Read MoreYou'd think with the level of fame Lee amassed in geek and mainstream culture, the end of his life would've been pretty grand. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. His last days were filled with tragedy.
Read MoreThe story of Baby Doe Tabor isn't your typical rags-to-riches-to-rags Wild West story. This is the tragic and scandalous story of 'Baby Doe' Tabor.
Read MoreBoybands come and go, but while they're around, there's always intense debate about them. What's their best song? Who's the best singer? Who's the hottest member? At the risk of inciting a throng of angry millennial fangirls, people even fight about the least popular members.
Read MoreAfter he graduated, he taught high school for three years. "First day, I'd tell the class all I knew," he told The Saturday Evening Post, "and there was nothin' left to say for the rest o' the semester." He was born to perform, though, and he created a road show with his wife, Barbara Edwards.
Read MoreIn a career filled with legendary performances, Michael Jordan's "flu game" is one of his most well-known and well-loved. During Game 5 of the 1997 NBA finals, Jordan was sick to his stomach and reported feeling "really tired and very weak," and asked coach Phil Jackson to use him "in spurts."
Read MoreIn the early morning hours of February 4, 2018, Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson asked his Uber driver to pull over. He wasn't feeling well and needed to get some air. In a tragic turn, Jackson and driver Jeffery Monroe were struck by a drunk driver who had swerved onto the shoulder.
Read MoreA pioneering dancer with an outsized personality, Isadora Duncan's bizarre life was rife with tragedy.
Read MoreCharismatic actress and singer Annette Funicello was an incredible phenomenon in the 1950s and 1960s, yet there are things that her fans may not know about her. This is the untold truth of Annette Funicello.
Read MoreSpeaking to StarWars.com, Hyneman said he researched possible new careers and made a list of his interests. And he didn't just make a pros and cons list; he actually went to a library and studied up on what these different jobs entailed. He landed on special effects, particularly animatronics.
Read MoreIrwin got his start early. At six, he received a 12-foot scrub python as a pet. He named it Fred. Strange gift? Not really, since both his parents, Lyn and Bob Irwin, were naturalists, and the Crocodile Hunter spent lots of time with them looking at wildlife as he grew up.
Read MoreIndian cobras are "large highly venomous snakes," one of the "'big four' species that inflict the most snakebites on humans in India." Native to southeast Asia, they are "can be found throughout India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and southern Nepal," often near water. But Missouri? Not so much.
Read MorePoison as a means of murder is as old as history, but we've also employed it for a heap of other purposes. Here are some bizarre historical uses for poison.
Read MoreThe most fashionable cemeteries out there with lots of famous residents can get millions of visits, and each seems to have adopted specific graveside rituals.
Read Moreone former Broncos staffer called the holier-than-thou persona "the most self-centered humble guy I've ever met." This attitude quickly turned his teammates and coaching staff against him. Tebow was so full of himself that he began to charge $50,000 to speak at churches.
Read MoreUpon leaving the military Hendrix performed as a session musician under the name Jimmy James, but it was while fronting his own group, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in 1966 in New York, that Hendrix had a fortunate meeting that would forever change the course of his musical career.
Read MoreHalloween hasn't always been trick-or-treating and parties. Here are some of the strange and bizarre ways Halloween has been altered through history.
Read MoreIn October 1993, movie fans were treated to The Nightmare Before Christmas, and no Halloween since has been complete without at least one re-watch.
Read MoreThe hot evolutionary question at the moment is, "why do so many creatures evolve into crabs?" It's a query that suggests many more questions: What do you mean, so many creatures? Do different animals evolve into the same thing? Could it happen again? What is so special about crabs?
Read MoreWhile we rightly celebrate Einstein as the foremost practitioner of modern physics, we must also acknowledge that he's a human being who's done some terrible things. Although a genius, he was not a good husband who may have contributed to a system that denied his wife respect as a scientist.
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