How a Victorian thatcher named Lot Long became the anonymous stick man on Led Zeppelin IV, and what his image really says about the band.
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Janis Joplin turned self destruction into a career move. Behind “10 years of superhypermost” was a haunted young woman the press barely understood.
In 1989 Jon Bon Jovi ducked out of the New Jersey tour, ran to Vegas with his high school sweetheart, and nearly torched his pin up rock god image.
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons tried to trademark the classic rock-on hand gesture. Here is what he filed, why it blew up, and what it says about rock culture.
On May 12, 2022, James Hetfield told 60,000 Metallica fans he felt too old and insecure to play. That crack in the armor may be his most metal act yet.
In 1969 Newsweek crowned Janis Joplin rock’s first female superstar. Decades later, her raw, “nothing held back” voice is still the benchmark modern singers fear and chase.
Brian Jones lived sex, drugs and rock and roll before it had a name. How the doomed Rolling Stones founder became rock’s first modern star.
How Keith Richards and Bill Wyman went from unlikely bandmates to estranged colleagues who still built the Rolling Stones’ heartbeat.
How Brian Jones, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and Roger Daltrey turned The Rolling Stones’ ill-fated Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus into a surreal snapshot of rock’s dark turning point.
Inside Jim Morrison’s notorious 1969 Miami concert – the chaotic night that turned a rock show into a criminal case and nearly ended The Doors.