Lou Pearlman was one of the most influential music moguls of his time. And one of the biggest fraudsters.
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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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“Be Here Now” was a perfect disaster in many ways.
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We’ve seen several careers come to an end on (or above) the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards.
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How an iconic, generation-defining song helped break up the band that recorded it.
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The Cars tried to go back-to-basics with “Door to Door.” Instead, they broke up for decades.
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Was Billy Idol ahead of his time with “Cyberpunk”? Of course. But that doesn’t mean the album is good or deserved to be successful.
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When done right, concept albums can be career enhancing. Or they can be disasters.
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In the early 00’s, Jessica Simpson was a superstar. Before the end of the decade, she was finished as a musician.
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How do you replace the irreplaceable? You don’t — but INXS sure tried.
Michelle Branch has always had a strong following. Too bad contract law has always been stronger.
Lip syncing and not performing on albums are nothing new. But when Milli Vanilli did it, people lost their minds.
Limp Bizkit were everywhere in the late 90s/early 00s. Then they fell off the face of the earth.
For most of the 1980s and early 90s, Mötley Crüe were riding high — both literally and figuratively. The band recorded and toured relentlessly, …
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