INXS rebounded from a creative lull with their 10th album, 1997’s Elegantly Wasted — only to see it all come crashing down due to a
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By 1982, country music legend Johnny Cash had nothing much left to prove. The youngest inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame a few

During the past 40 years there’s been no shortage of jabs aimed at Motorhead’s fifth studio album. Conventional wisdom has long held that Iron Fist,

Metallica were eager to flex their brawny, return-to-roots thrash attack across much of 2016’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct, but on the groovy, stomping “Now That We’re Dead,”

Queen released one of the most divisive hits in their vaunted catalog on April 19, 1982, the racy dance track “Body Language.” They’d enjoyed massive

Marilyn Manson was notorious decades before being accused of serial abuse of women. His songs and stage performances were so horrific in the public imagination

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