The Fab Four were a global sensation, with millions of people in love with their music. Young people everywhere knew the lyrics to Beatles songs by heart. But a few choice words from members of the famous band didn't strike the right chord with some people.
Read MoreMar-a-Lago is President Donald Trump's primary residence, a resort club for the extremely wealthy, and an estate with more history than you might expect.
Read MoreThe creature is part of the Oviraptoridae family that roamed the Asian and American continents over 60 million years ago. With the discovery of Anzu, scientists have been able to fill in evolutionary gaps within the Oviraptorid evolutionary tree. In the world of paleontology, this is a big deal.
Read MoreStranger Things is, in many ways, a love letter to the 1980s, but while it's known for its attention to detail, the show gets things both right and wrong.
Read MoreWhile a car is coveted, the prize isn't always what it seems. This is true of The Price Is Right. Winning such a big price is thrilling; recipients jump up and down, scream, and then race down to jump behind the wheel of their new ride. But once the lights dim, that dream can become less exciting.
Read MoreSome 23 labels in total rejected her self-titled album. "No one was willing to take a chance on a female rocker, especially one with a look and sound as androgynous as Jett's." Undaunted, Jett and Laguna formed their own independent label, Blackheart Records, and released the album themselves.
Read MoreTrent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails didn't always deal well with that fame, and ultimately, it was the fame that led both to a situation that could've killed Reznor, and to none other than David Bowie saving Reznor's life.
Read MoreLong before the word "branding" was used to describe the click-boosting tactics of Instacelebs, it was used by cowherds to keep track of field-roaming cattle (a funny comparison, to be sure). And we mean "long before," as in pre-written language scrawled on cave walls thousands of years ago.
Read MoreMembers of Scotland's Primal Scream were no strangers to drug use themselves, but what they saw when touring with synth-pop megastars Depeche Mode changed them forever.
Read MoreThe popular folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel was formed in the late 1950s and continued on to have a successful career for the next 15 years. The precocious duo were just 16-years-old when they signed to the record company Big Records. This is how Simon & Garfunkel got their start.
Read MoreRadiohead wouldn't have made it that far if their third album, OK Computer, hadn't turned into a massive critical cultural staple. Recording OK Computer wasn't easy, though, since Thom Yorke was creeped out through the whole thing. That's what you get when you record an album in a haunted mansion.
Read MoreDolly PParton is one of 12 children, all of whom have their own story to tell.
Read MoreSkaggs' best year came in 2018, with a 4.02 ERA and an 8-10 record. In the following year, he nearly matched his personal wins record with seven by late June, and, soon after pitching against Oakland, Skaggs and the rest of the team headed for Dallas for a four-game series against the Texas Rangers.
Read MoreBattleBots is back for a brand-new season of total robot destruction. The wildly popular Discovery Channel show returns with 60 teams hailing from all corners of the globe to bash, saw, burn, chop, and stomp their way to victory. Here's what you need to know about the BattleBots Season 5 premiere.
Read MoreUltimately, they have sold more than 100 million records together and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. But after each reunion, the two would squabble and go their separate ways, doing their own projects and not speaking for months -- or years -- at a time.
Read MoreFrau Perchta's role in Christmas, though, has changed over the years. It turns out that she tends to be most active between Christmas and the Epiphany, so people believed she's more of a holiday thing. Frau Perchta preyed on lazy people year-'round before becoming a general threat against children.
Read MoreHe excelled on the football field as his team's offensive tackle. While he was known as a "gentle giant" off the field, in his football pads and helmet he let a more aggressive personality come through, a "formidable, intimidating figure" whose large size made it hard for opponents to get past him.
Read MoreHis most recent claim breaks out of the human realm and into the supernatural. In an interview with The Mirror in 2016, Meat Loaf shocked the reporter with a frank proclamation that he could see the spirits of the dead.
Read MoreAllmusic immortalized the artist by claiming, "it is no exaggeration to say that the sound of mainstream pop/rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro." Via Toto and countless others, Porcaro made his name as one of the top pop-rock drummers of the generation.
Read MoreWe've got Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Resort, and others, including smaller theme parks like Florida's Epcot Center and Animal Kingdom. So when is enough enough for these guys? Well, back in 2000, they actually tried to nick an idea for an entire theme park.
Read MoreCountry music legend Waylon Jennings died in 2002, but his life was almost cut short much earlier. In 1959, Jennings was almost on the infamous February 3rd flight that crashed and tragically killed everyone on board. This is the story of the plane crash that could have killed Waylon Jennings.
Read MoreFrank Sinatra was the kind of talented singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but he wasn't always known as the Sultan of Swoon, and it turns out, before he hit it big, he looked to another famous entertainer as a source of inspiration. This person was Frank Sinatra's inspiration.
Read MoreJulius Caesar is the most famous Roman who ever lived, but he tends to be more famous for some things than others. Caesar is remembered as a general and a politician, but not as a priest, a title that Caesar held multiple times. Let's look inside Julius Caesar's connection to priesthood.
Read MoreIf you think life is easy as one of the turn of the century's biggest pop stars and who married the world's top soccer player, think again. Apparently quite a few people out there are against the whole Girl Power thing, because Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, has had several brushes with danger.
Read MoreFolk-rock group Simon & Garfunkel met early success with their song "Hey, Schoolgirl," breaking the Top 50 in 1957 when they were 15-year-olds living in the New York City borough of Queens. They would reunite several times but behind all the music making were strife and breakups.
Read MoreThe Cars were among the most successful bands to come out of the New Wave scene. Ric Ocasek is typically considered the frontman, but he and Benjamin Orr shared the role of lead singer. Did this make them close friends or breed contempt? It turns out it was a little bit of both.
Read MoreWe know they brought gifts, but most people aren't too familiar with the characters beyond that. When you hear the visitors mentioned in Christmas carols -- for instance, "We Three Kings," posted on YouTube -- they're often described as being, well, kings who follow a star from far off lands.
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