René was already managing a popular French singer, Ginette Reno, when Céline’s brother sent him a demo tape of a song Celine wrote with her mother.After also hearing her perform in...
Little Richard performed the ceremony for her wedding
She asked the singer to perform the wedding. Apparently he tripped getting to the podium and according to Lauper's husband, Wallace, the first thing...
She rose to fame as the lead singer of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and became considered the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll for hits such as "I Love Rock 'N' Roll." Her teacher once threw her out of her voice...
Marvel once did a comic book based on Cheap Trick. The comic book featured storylines based on some of the groups song lyrics. One of the more bazaar storylines has Rick Nielsen as the son of Ozzie &...
Def Leppard is actually in the Guinness Book of World Records for a feat that seems almost impossible to accomplish. When midnight hit on Oct. 23, 1994, Def. Leppard was already on stage playing in Tangiers,...
The fan base of Aerosmith band is called ‘The Blue Army’. The band had itself coined this name for their fans. Here ‘Blue’ represents the colour of denim jeans and denim jackets...
There is a character in the 1968 Jane Fonda sci-fi flick Barbarella named Dr. Durand Durand. This is where the group got their name. None of the Taylors Are Related. Andy John Taylor, Andy Taylor, and...
Stewart and Lennox were a couple while they were bandmates in a group called The Tourists from 1977-1980. Soon after forming Eurythmics in 1980."Eurythmics" is a real word - it is the art of interpreting...
They named their band at first "Forever Young" and changed it to "Alphaville". Together the three wrote Forever Young and recorded their first demo of the name “Forever Young”. On the surface,...
Baltimora was an Italian music project active in the 1980s by pop producer Maurizio Bassi, although for the music video and TV appearances, Jimmy McShane from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, lip-synched...
3.5 million people applied for tickets to their 1977 London tour dates.
If you managed to score tickets to those U.K. gigs forty years ago, you were in luck. Tickets for the two shows at the Royal Albert...
Born in Gary, Indiana, their address was 2300 Jackson Street.They were the first to have their own cartoon. The Jackson 5ive was a Saturday morning cartoon series produced in part by Motown Productions...
American singer and composer who became one of the highest charting singers in the late 1950s. He also hosted the show The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom. His book Twixt Twelve and Twenty was a bestseller in...
Jonathan King, signed the group to UK Records and came up with their name. King went to sleep that night and had a dream about a band on his label made number one on the album and singles charts simultaneously...