more brave than me
more blond than you
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After the official disbandment of the Alice Cooper Band in 1975, Cooper returned with Welcome To My Nightmare, an album that took his musicality to new and unexpected heights.
November 10, 2008: Coldplay was the biggest-selling act of 2008 at the World Music Awards held in Monaco and won the Rock Act Of The Year award.
September 5, 1981: Stevie Nicks went to Number 1 on the US album chart with Bella Donna.
Though Stevie Nicks begin recording Bella Donna in the waning days of 1980, the seeds for her debut solo album were planted years before.
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| Stevie Nicks |
Cooper and his band recorded "Billion Dollar Babies" at a mansion they rented out to record the album in Greenwich, Connecticut, which is a very wealthy suburb of New York City.
June 25, 1988: Prince peaked at Number 8 on the US music chart with "Alphabet Street" from his Lovesexy album.
"Alphabet Steet," the first single from Prince's 1988 album, was the LP's only top 10 single.
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| Prince Lovesexy cover |
May 30, 2009: Eminem entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at Number 17 with "Beautiful."
"Beautiful" is the fourth and final single from Eminem's album Relapse.
May 12, 1998: Matchbox 20 released the single "Real World."
Matchbox 20's "Real World" was initially ineligible to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 due to not receiving a physical release in North America.
July 3, 1982: Jennifer Holliday enters the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "And I Am Telling You (I’m Not Going)" from Dreamgirls.
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls.
March 22, 1980: Pink Floyd topped the Hot 100 with "Another Brick In The Wall (part II)" for the next four weeks.
English rocker William Broad, better known to the world as Billy Idol, was no less than the spiky-haired, bleach-blond, sneering face of the '80s.
November 10, 1983: Billy Idol releases the LP Rebel Yell.
Years before Nirvana or Green Day supposedly broke punk rock to the mainstream, a peroxide-spiked British singer dubbed Billy Idol arguably accomplished the same feat with Rebel Yell.
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| Billy Idol |
“Mony Mony” means nothing; literally nothing. But to Billy Idol , “Mony Mony” always meant sex. That’s because when young William was 14, he lost his virginity in a public park via a tumble with a more experienced partner.
Bob Dylan‘s second album of 1965, Highway 61 Revisited, would be a historic break: For the first time, none of the tracks would feature just him and his guitar.
There really was a Leroy Brown. After Jim Croce got done with college, he signed up for the National Guard to avoid getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. At his South Carolina base, Croce met a Leroy Brown.
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| Jim Corce |
On the morning of Saturday, July 3, 1971, Morrison died of a heart attack, brought on by drugs. So, the simple answer to how he died is a heart attack from using heroin.
