She walked out of a Dallas hotel with 36 cents and a fuel card, kept only her name in the divorce, and spent eight years rebuilding to Private Dancer. The exact arithmetic of rock’s greatest comeback.
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They met backstage in Shreveport in August 1980 and married eight months later. What the Van Halen-Bertinelli marriage survived, what it couldn’t, and why it never really ended.
Corgan re-recorded most of the bass himself and regretted the cost forever; Wretzky played it live a thousand nights. The honest answer to alt-rock’s most awkward credit question.
Recorded in secret during chemotherapy with a downtown jazz band, released on his 69th birthday, decoded two days later – Blackstar as the most deliberate farewell in music.
A bullet in Jacksonville ended Mac Rebennack’s guitar career at 19 – and sent him back to the piano, the persona, and the half-century reign of the Night Tripper.
A teenage roadie from Aberdeen drew KISS on the Melvins’ Dodge van in shoplifted Sharpie. The mural, the van, and the apprenticeship that produced Nirvana.
Ziggy was retired on stage; the Thin White Duke had to be escaped. The story of Bowie’s darkest character – built in Los Angeles, disowned in Berlin.
At 19 he refused a producer, played every credited instrument, and made Warner print five unprecedented words on the sleeve. The debut album as ultimatum.
A 1993 ‘soundtrack’ with one song in the actual programme, buried by its own label – and the record Bowie kept calling his favourite. The case for his least-heard album.
Born in Kirriemuir, made in Fremantle, immortalised in bronze on top of a Marshall amp – why a Western Australian port town built a statue of AC/DC’s wildest son, and why it works.