more brave than me
more blond than you
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Etta James was a gospel prodigy. In 1954, she moved to Los Angeles to record "The Wallflower." Her career had begun to soar by 1960, due in no small part to songs like "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "At Last."
Poison lead singer Bret Michaels wrote "Every Rose Has its Thorn" in response to a failed love affair with his girlfriend, Tracy Lewis.
The film Trainspotting concerns the adventures of a group of young, nearly criminal, drug-addicted Scottish friends.
"Your Mama Don't Dance" was a hit 1972 song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina.
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Due to the title cut, this was a huge seller when it originally came out.
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April 18, 1975: Alice Cooper's first TV special, Welcome To My Nightmare: The Making Of A Record Album, airs on US television.
In 1975, Alice Cooper went solo and recorded the album of his career. By the time Alice Cooper released Welcome To My Nightmare in February 1975, he was already one of the most famous rock celebrities on the planet.
March 15, 1963: Bret Michaels, lead singer of Poison, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Born Bret Michael Sychak on March 15, 1963, in Butler, Pennsylvania. At the age of 6, Michaels was diagnosed with diabetes. Throughout his career, he has taken insulin and measured his blood sugar levels to manage his illness.
Bret Michaels
December 24, 1818: A church choir in Austria introduced a new Christmas song for their Midnight Mass: "Stille Nacht!" better known as "Silent Night."
On Christmas Eve in 1818, a preist named Joseph Mohr asked his friend Franz Xaver Gruber, an organist and teacher, to compose a melody to a poem he had written two years earlier. Happy with the results, Mohr included the song in a short ceremony following Christmas Mass that same evening.
