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79 Of The Most Interesting Facts You Will Likely End Up Thinking About For Days

Not all screen time is brain-rotting and unproductive. Sometimes it can enrich our knowledge through easily digestible facts. Enter the Genuine History Instagram page, which has no shortage of tidbits of trivia that could be your next dinner conversation topic. Here are some of the best posts from the page.

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“Dave had a beat-up, noisy cassette of Steve Vai. We listened together in some garage with the tape player on the fender of a car. I said to Dave, ‘That’s the guy’”: How David Lee Roth put Van Halen behind him with one of rock's greatest supergroups

In late 1985, Diamond Dave's Hollywood dreams were dashed – but with some help from Vai, Billy Sheehan, and Gregg Bissonette, he firmly established himself as a superstar in his own right

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“A full circle moment after all these years of making music side-by-side”: Billy Idol and Steve Stevens inducted into Guitar Center’s Hollywood Rockwalk

They’ll be be among some prestigious players on Sunset Boulevard

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"If one were to cut the crap from The Clash's final album, it could be released as a seven inch single, with no B-side." Ten forgettable punk albums with one killer song

Each of these thoroughly mediocre punk albums features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

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"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army

In 1989, Billy Idol desperately need a break from his troubles in Los Angeles, but things went from bad, to worse, and then to much, much worse

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Billy Idol thought his career might only last six months, but why?

Billy Idol has reflected on his unlikely rise in the music industry after winning an AMA.

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Billy Idol honoured with lifetime achievement award for 50 year music career: ‘We thought it may only last about six months’

‘I’ve been able to live my dream, and it’s really all because of you,’ Idol told fans at the 2026 American Music Awards

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BTS have picked up three gongs at the American Music Awards in Las Vegas.

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Billy Idol honoured for 50-year rock career he thought would last six months

The Rebel Yell singer received a lifetime achievement accolade to a standing ovation at the American Music Awards in Las Vegas.

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How to watch the ‘American Music Awards’ 2026 — stream the ceremony as Taylor Swift leads nominations

Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Bad Bunny, Bruno Mars and more are nominated for the "American Music Awards" this year — find out who wins by watching along live.

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"I learned this note-for-note because it really touched me emotionally; it was so vulnerable." The eight songs that fuelled Steve Stevens' teenage rock'n'roll dreams

Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens recalls the songs that rocked his world during his formative years

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“The original idea was Steve Stevens, but he was busy with Billy Idol”: How Steve Vai ended up joining David Lee Roth's post-Van Halen band – thanks to Billy Sheehan

While Vai wasn’t his original choice, the Sheehan-Vai dynamic proved strong enough to outlast Roth’s project

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“Bob Rock said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m gonna help you become a guitar hero.’ And he did!” Billy Duffy on how The Cult made their most challenging hit single

The guitar icon explains how tours with Billy Idol and Guns N' Roses shaped their 1989 hit, Fire Woman

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"Jaw-dropping from start to finish, Offering is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of album." A heartfelt salute to Axe's forgotten blue-collar gruntrock party classic

Revisiting one of melodic rock's greatest long-lost albums

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“It’s like… what do you do after that? I need a drink”: Sabrina Carpenter sings Like A Prayer with Madonna at Coachella, as Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Billy Idol, Steve Stevens, Zara Larsson and SZA also deliver second weekend cameos

Coachella’s second half definitely wasn’t a B-side

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