At the height of the grunge era, David Lee Roth released a new-sound record boasting more mature and introspective lyrics. Would America embrace the older and wiser Diamond Dave?
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(Legal) Career Killers: No Stay of Execution for Death Row Records Thanks to Criminal Probes and Bankruptcy.
A fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas had serious consequences for Death Row Records.
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Rock stars like writing about young or underage girls. But what happens when you cross the line from fantasy to reality?
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Andrew Ridgeley finds out that it’s not so easy without George Michael by his side.
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Kevin Federline was good at dancing, marrying well and being a WWE heel. But a rapper? Not so much…
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Remember David Spade’s “look children, it’s a falling star” joke about Eddie Murphy on SNL?
This time, the falling star is Justin Timberlake.
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Thanks to whoever thought my retro-review of Chinese Democracy was worth linking to in Wikipedia. Hopefully they’ll start citing my “Career Killers” series more.
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Lip syncing and not performing on albums are nothing new. But when Milli Vanilli did it, people lost their minds.
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Nothing splits up a band faster or more effectively than money.
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Gary Barlow was supposed to be the next George Michael. Compared to Robbie Williams, he might as well have been Andrew Ridgeley. What happened?
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How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.
The sequel to Gigli that no one wanted.
Career Killers — Mass Murderers Edition: How Dr. Dre Killed a Bunch of Careers
Dr. Dre’s 1992 classic, The Chronic, did more than make him a megastar. It also fundamentally changed music.
Be Here Now was a perfect disaster in many ways.
We’ve seen several careers come to an end on (or above) the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards.