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Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill grew beards down to their chests. The drummer's last name was actually Beard, and he was the only one…
Deep Purple went to Switzerland to record an album and watched the casino where they planned to do it go up in flames. That…
In 1992 they were accused of satanic propaganda, and their show in Santiago never happened. Now they're heading back to the Estadio Nacional with…
On the last day of 1984, Rick Allen lost his left arm in an accident. The band waited for him, and three years later…
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In the middle of the Falklands (Malvinas) War, the dictatorship banned English-language music on the radio. Without meaning to, it opened the door for…
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