The Real Reason Billy Joel Lost All Of His Money
You might expect Billy Joel wouldn't have to worry about his finances all too much. But the Piano Man once sang a song of financial woe.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of John Belushi
John Belushi lived a short but eventful life filled with both overwhelming success and heartbreaking tragedy. This is the tragic real-life story of John Belushi.
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The Eagles' Don Henley Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
Don Henley might look more like friendly uncle than one of the greatest rock stars of all time, but rest assured, the man is most definitely a rock star.
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Joe Elliott From Def Leppard Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
Hard rock giant Def Leppard has been chugging away since 1977. Through all of it, singer Joe Elliot has been standing at the forefront of his group. Here's how much money he is now worth.
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The Truth About Kurt Cobain's Solo Project
In one of his last interviews with Rolling Stone, Kurt Cobain intimated that Nirvana may have started its downward trajectory — that after a couple more albums, the band would probably dissolve, because the same people completing the same jobs is rather limiting.
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The Tragic Story Behind Robert Kennedy's Death
To some in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) seemed the country's last chance at a promising future. Here's the tragic truth about his untimely death.
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Whatever Happened To The Woman From Van Halen's Hot For Teacher Video?
Music videos were amazingly effective for selling recordings. Some had practically nothing to do with the song itself and some made at least a passing attempt at a narrative. Also, an excuse for the band to hang out with very attractive other people. Like in "Hot for Teacher."
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The Untold Truth Of The 1969 Berkshire UFO Sighting
The Reed family faced decades of terrifying instances of lost time and alien abduction. This is the untold truth of the 1969 Berkshire UFO sighting.
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The Truth About Tupac And Biggie's Notorious Beef
The beef between 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. (Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace) is not only the most well-known and well-documented in rap history, it has come to embody the West Coast-East Coast hip-hop rivalry that took off in the 1990's.
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What Life Was Really Like For Slaves In America
The anodyne thing to do would be to pretend this article exists in a vacuum, but out of respect for your intelligence as a reader, the moment at hand should be acknowledged.
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Here's How Pearl Jam Got Their Name
There is one enduring mystery about Pearl Jam, though: What, exactly, is up with the name? You can sort of understand where band names like "Nirvana" or "Alice in Chains" are coming from, but "Pearl Jam" just seems like Eddie Vedder and his cohorts picked two random words from a dictionary.
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The Famous Jingle You Didn't Know The Rolling Stones Wrote
The Rolling Stones formed in 1962, and before all of their success in writing some of the best rock and roll songs to date, they actually wrote a jingle for a cereal commercial.
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What Happens To Your Body When You Compulsively Lie
We all have had an occasion to lie -- sometimes about cherry trees, like George Washington, and other times, just to be polite. There is a difference between social niceties and pathological lying, though. But where is the line, and what happens when we cross it?
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The True Story Behind Nosferatu
Few horror movies are as iconic as F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film Nosferatu, but the movie was a nightmare to make. This is the true story behind Nosferatu.
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The Truth About Bob Dylan's Relationship With The Beatles
It was springtime in 1964, the Beatles were on a tour of France, and they heard Dylan's album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his second studio album, for the first time. And liked it. A lot.
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The Ugly Truth About Mount Rushmore
Since before the United States was knee-high to a bald eagle, one person's majestic monument has been another's symbol of suffocating tyranny.
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Why Frances Bean Cobain Got A Restraining Order Against Courtney Love
Frances Bean Cobain, by name and birthright, is the royal princess of the kingdom of flanel. She's the daughter of Kurt Cobain, legendary frontman of Nirvana, and Courtney Love, the multimedia proto late-stage Randy Quaid of the nineties. After Kurt's death, Frances was raised by a single mother...
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Whatever Happened To Tracy Chapman?
Tracy Chapman is well regarded as a thoughtful, introspective singer-songwriter, producing tracks like "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason." So what happened?
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The Untold Truth About The Gilgo Beach Murders
The Gilgo Beach Killer may have been responsible for 10 or more murders, and his identity remained a mystery for decades.
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What Really Happens To Your Body When You Take A Polygraph Test
Although they lack the pizzazz of lightsabers, polygraphs — better known as lie detectors — work on the equally fantastical premise that a machine can definitively say whether the subject of the test is lying or not ... and the Supreme Court ruled against them in 1998.
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The Real Reason The Tron Trilogy Never Got Finished
Tron: Legacy should've been a huge hit. It had everything that its target demo of nerdy dudes were looking for. Then, the unthinkable happened.
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This Is What Erykah Badu Does For A Living Today
R&B diva Erykah Badu still commands a presence. Despite the fact she's still actively making and performing music, though, she's also working a relatively normal job — namely, Badu is a doula.
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The Real Meaning Behind Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear The Reaper'
We can all be grateful to Blue Öyster Cult for a couple of things. Umlauts and cowbell. But when it comes to their timeless classic "Don't Fear the Reaper", what does the song actually mean?
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The Untold Truth Of David And Goliath
You probably remember the basics: David, a shepherd boy with a heart of gold and God on his side, accepts the call to battle Goliath, a pretty big guy.
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The Truth About Chuck Berry's Time In Prison
A bit of music history was made October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri. That was the day that Charles Edward Anderson Berry -- you probably know him as Chuck -- entered the world and began a life journey that would alter popular music as we know it. But his youthful innocence would soon fade.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Scottie Pippen
Scottie Pippen repeatedly rose to basketball's highest peak, but he had a very rough life. Here's the tragic story of Scottie Pippen.
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Here's How Free Bird Became A Concert Tradition
If you've ever been to a concert and in between a song break or a lull in the show, heard someone shout from the back of the crowd, "Free Bird!", there's actually a fascinating history behind it.
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