Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, who steadied the Texas band for five decades, died on August 17 at age 77. The long... read more
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John Lennon wrote "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" about Richard Cooke, a hunter he met at the Maharishi's camp in India. Cooke hasn't shot anything since the camp, except with his camera - he became a freelance photographer for National Geographic.
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Dubbed the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," R&B singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige shook up the genre with her Puff Daddy-produced debut, What's the 411?, and her breakthrough single, "Real Love."
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Into the vaults for Bruce Pollock's 1984 conversation with the esteemed bluesman. Hooker talks about transforming a Tony Bennett classic and why you don't have to be sad and lonely to write the blues.
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This song starts in Boston with a tea party and takes us to the other end of the American Revolution.
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Nirvana, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen are among those who wrote songs with cities that show up in this quiz.
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Does he have beef with Gaga? Is he Sean Lennon's godfather? See if you can tell fact from fiction in the Elton John edition.
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This song introduced me to reggae. I joke that this song contains one of the biggest mysteries in rock/pop music: Who shot the deputy? ("I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.") "Every time I plant a seed, he says 'kill it before it grows,'" I've always taken that as very violent and hateful....