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The Cracked Guide To The Grateful Dead, Part 4: The Harsh 80s
If you ever wish for rock-and-roll superstardom on a monkey's paw, pay heed to the story of The Grateful Dead.
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6 How 15 Famous Musicians Responded to Weird Al's Parodies
No one wants to earn the wrath of Prince, lest he rain down purple vengeance upon you.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Cracked Guide To The Grateful Dead, Part 3: The Dead Hit The Road
Could you live out of your car just to attend every concert by your favorite band? The Dead Heads sure managed it.
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The Cracked Guide To The Grateful Dead, Part 2: The Seventies Get Wild, Man
Going into the 70s, The Dead started recording songs that belonged on the radio. The concerts, meanwhile, belonged on the moon.
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- By Jordan Hoffman
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The Cracked Guide To The Grateful Dead, Part 1: The 1960s
America's greatest jam band: the music, the culture, and the solo that goes on so long everyone forgets what song this was supposed to be.
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15 Witchy Facts About Stevie Nicks
She’s lived enough for several of the lives she believes she’s had.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The U.S. Military Used 'Danger Zone' To Annoy An Actual Dictator
'Danger Zone,' and also Rick Astley.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Ways the ‘80s Changed Music
A number of technological and cultural breakthroughs in the ‘80s ripped genres apart, created others from scratch, and ensured for the rest of our lives that great artists also had to be hot.
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Stephen King And The Simpsons' Matt Groening Were In A Rock Band
Sometimes, Bruce Springsteen sand with them. Other times, Richard Belzer.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Bizarro Details of the Recordings of Famous Songs
Recording a hit song is a serious and expensive endeavor, except when it involves a bunch of celebrities with god complexes and alarming blood alcohol levels, which is usually.
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Doctor Strange Once Got Sued By A Christian Singer
Amy Grant said they stole her image. She was right.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Coachella Reveals Danny Elfman Is Covered In Tattoos And Ripped
This hunk is the dude who wrote the Simpsons theme song?
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- By Eli Yudin
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15 Cringiest Lyrics of the 2000s
Ahhh, the time of unattractive hats and celebrity sex tapes.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Mapping Hip Hop: 15 NYC Spots Where the Movement Was Shaped
Hip hop is one of the few truly American art forms, and just about the only one white people haven’t successfully stolen.
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15 Details Of Kurt Cobain's Death That Take The Weird To Eleven
It turns out he did have a gun.
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