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45 Years Later, A Cult Sci-Fi Anthology Film Is Still A Glorious Mess

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"I swear to God I turned the radio off because I got sick of hearing us every 20 minutes!" The story of how Pyromania sold 100,000 copies a day and turned Def Leppard into superstars

Def Leppard made an album so huge that only Michael Jackson’s Thriller prevented it from reaching No.1 in America

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“She Was So Cute Before”: How Plastic Surgery Changed The Jackson Family Over The Years

Here's how the Jackson family has transformed through the years after plastic surgery.

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Why Paris Jackson Now Believes Disturbing Allegations Against Her Dad

The 28-year-old is said to be close to the Cascio family, whose four children accused her father of predatory behavior.

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"Parents come up to me and instead of going, ‘Oh you’re not a good role model because you talk about sex’, they say the opposite!" How Halestorm's breakthrough anthem smashed some silly taboos in rock 'n' roll

Believe it or not, a lot of modern mainstream rock had become a little prudish by around 2009. Halestorm helped change that

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"I said, 'This is our last show.' He said OK. We never, ever talked about why it was so easy to break up the band." The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band, and where it all went wrong

Two million sales. A dizzying rise. And a cataclysmic fall

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"They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story

Reflecting on both success and rancour, identical twins Michael and Jay Aston look back on their time in the band – and at each other’s throats

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20 Celebrity Couples Were Never Supposed To Last But They Did

“We didn't think we'd make it, but we did.”

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“I don’t think Janis was living a life with the inevitability of death. She was getting cleaner and stronger”: The turbulent story of how Janis Joplin tried and failed to get off the rock’n’roll rollercoaster

In 1966, a strung-out Janis Joplin returned to her home town in Texas, intent on leading a normal life

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"We have our own airport and our own postage stamp!" Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine look back at 60 wild years of Scorpions

How Scorpions went from being called ‘the worst German import since the V2 bomb’ to much-loved rock royalty

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“The bar owners pulled guns on us. It was over whisky and disrespect. We were 22 and hard as steel”: The incredible story of the forgotten Detroit hellraisers who blazed a trail for Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and The Stooges

Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels are one of the great lost American bands of the 60s

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Paris Jackson questions how Michael Jackson’s estate is being run in new court filing

Paris Jackson has taken a major step in her ongoing battle with the people running her late father Michael Jackson’s estate

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"The 80s were our most successful period, but soulless, shallower, and less musically rewarding": How Heart made their rock'n'roll dreams come true and the price they paid

How "Little Led Zeppelin" became global stars and carved out a place for women in rock along the way

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“I just had to sit there, drink a bit, have a cigarette, wink at the band”: Why David Bowie ditched promoting Low and instead became Iggy Pop’s keyboard player

Bowie put helping his Berlin flatmate Iggy Pop first, with promo for one of his greatest ever albums falling by the wayside

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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“It’s just a little bit embarrassing that it became as big a hit as it did”: The joyful REM classic that many believe contains a darker meaning

The song was inescapable in the early 1990s, yet the shifting dynamics and sunny lyrics of REM's upbeat smash continue to provoke questions about its subtext

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What These 35 Celebs Looked Like In Their 20s, Before They Became Legends

Some of the faces on TV and the big screen are veterans, legends, and household names — and for good reason. They’ve been acting for decades, carving out reputations that their greying hair and mature features testify to. Names like the multi-genre Meryl Streep, funnyman Steve Martin, and the deep,…

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“They said, 'how can you possibly do this, Brian?' I said, 'something got inside of me - I had to do something'”: Unpicking the Beach Boys' classic that confirmed Brian Wilson’s creative genius

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense the positive or negative energies of humans

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How visionary Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson changed music – and my life

Brian Wilson, leader, songwriter and producer of the Beach Boys, has passed away at age 82.

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“When asked about his family, Jim would often explain that his parents – still very much alive – were dead”: How The Doors’ Jim Morrison went from from drunken teen rebel to leather-clad 60s rock god

Drunkenness, arrests, ambition – Jim Morrison’s wayward childhood paved the way for the future

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“Van Halen were opening for us and they were killing us every night. But they were making us be a better band”: How Journey found Steve Perry and made Infinity, the album that set them on the road to superstardom

Journey were a noodling jazz-rock band with a cult following – until they discovered Steve Perry and made 1978’s Infinity

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The man Neil Peart called his "six favourite drummers": Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“Just like that it came to him”: Why Fleetwood Mac’s most iconic riff is one of music’s greatest ever moments

That thrilling and inspired John McVie bassline steered the band to create one of its most captivating songs

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“We went down the sheep-dip in the 80s. They douse you with pesticide, and then you’re lucky to make it out alive”: The rollercoaster story of Heart, the 70s rock icons who survived MTV, grunge and each other

Ann and Nancy Wilson look back over the rise, fall and resurrection of Heart

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