Badfinger were supposed to be the next Beatles. Instead, they paid a tragic price for having bad, unscrupulous management.
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Career Killers
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How a 2007 Wendy’s ad and subsequent lawsuit broke up Violent Femmes.
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(Legal) Career Killers: Michael Jackson v. Sony and the People of the State of California.
How a chain-reaction of events in the early 2000s led to Michael Jackson’s downfall.
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(Legal) Career Killers: R. Kelly and RICO, The Mann Act, Sex Abuse Laws, Child Pornography, Child Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor Laws…
R. Kelly seemed untouchable. But then “Surviving R. Kelly” hit the airwaves.
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(Legal) Career Killers: The Lovin’ Spoonful, Buffalo Springfield and Pot Busts.
Remember when marijuana was seen as a dangerous, illegal gateway drug? It helped kill two seminal 60s bands.
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George Michael was on the verge of being the biggest pop star in the world — until his lawsuit against Sony.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on Don Henley?
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Biz Markie’s career never recovered after a copyright lawsuit over sampling.
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“Be Here Now” was a perfect disaster in many ways.
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Nothing splits up a band faster or more effectively than money.
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We’ve seen several careers come to an end on (or above) the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards.
Lou Pearlman was one of the most influential music moguls of his time. And one of the biggest fraudsters.
How the Mann Act took down the “Father of Rock & Roll.”
When Michelle Branch was arrested in August for assaulting her husband, Patrick Carney of the Black Keys, it raised so many questions: “Wait, she …
Lip syncing and not performing on albums are nothing new. But when Milli Vanilli did it, people lost their minds.