Bruce Springsteen is one of the world’s biggest Elvis fans Bruce and the E Street Band had just wrapped up another one of their four-hour extravaganzas, this one in Memphis in 1976. A wired-up Bruce...
Live Aid
"That's the greatest Queen moment of all time," the band's famous performance at London's Live Aid charity concert in 1985. "Freddie was actually told he couldn't sing – he had throat nodules....
Aritha Franklin developed a fear of flying and would only tour where she could travel by bus. In 1994, she charted in the Top 40 with “A Rose Is Still a Rose” and reprised her role in “Blues...
In October 1994, Houston attended and performed at a state dinner in the White House honoring newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela and Mandela wipied the tears of an emotional Houston on...
In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Diana Ross the most successful female music artist in history due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any...
CCR starting in 1968, most of their songs were written, produced, arranged, and sung by John Fogerty. He carried a notebook full of phrases that he wanted to convert into songs, including "Bad Moon Rising,"...
He was born with the boring name of Arnold Dorsey to a British dad and Indian mom in 1936, and today the Hump man commands the respect and admiration of millions.
His Father wanted him to be an engineer
Born...
Jim Reeves went to the University of Texas on an athletic scholarship where he was a Base Ball pitcher, He eventually joined a semi-pro team.
After his short-lived baseball careers Jim Reeves was...
Born Alan Eugene Jackson
He prefers sad songs
Chocolate is his weakness
He Wasn’t A Big Fan Of Music Growing Up
He Had An Unusual Pet when he was young, A squirrel monkey
He Once Worked in a...
Born Neil Leslie Diamond
Diamond was considering the names “Ice Charry” and “Noah Kaminsky” for his stage names before he decided on Neil Diamond. We’re glad he stuck with...
Harrison was deported from Germany for being underage.
In the very early days of Beatlemania, screaming fans turned up to Harrison's house in Liverpool and were greeted by the man himself – but...
Born Neil Leslie Diamond
Diamond was considering the names “Ice Charry” and “Noah Kaminsky” for his stage names before he decided on Neil Diamond. We’re glad he stuck with...
Born Barbara Joan Streisand
Streisand’s first show was in 1960, and she still performs today. The Queen of the Divas is, for all intents and purposes, ageless.
Barbra Streisand Was the First Woman...
Donna Summer’s actual name was LaDonna Adrian Gaines
Summer was inspired to write her hit, “She Works Hard for the Money,” after seeing a sleeping bathroom attendant. She then wrote...
They Are the Most Successful Australian Act in the United States
Bee Gees Didn’t Always Get Along
Maurice Gibb was a champion paintball player with his own team called The Royal Rat Rangers.
The...
Pictured here is Carrie Fisher, widely adored as Princess Leia and celebrated as an author. But outside of her career, she had quite an interesting personal life full of many star-studded romances. She...
Here's a photo you may not have seen, it is from the batch of photos taken (but not chosen) from the photo shoot for AC-DC’s Highway to Hell album cover back in 1979. The Australian hard rock...
Pictured here are award-winning actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford taking a break while filming Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid back in 1969. This American Western directed by George Roy Hill...
Actress Natalie Wood was just 16-years old when she co-starred with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause back in 1955. The film is widely regarded as a groundbreaking attempt to portray “the moral...
Pictured here is one of the last living people of the film industry's Golden Age, the Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas along with his son the actor Michael Douglas. The duo were on the set of Cast a Giant...