When you've joined the wrong band.
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George Harrison’s final letter was to Mike Myers, expressing his appreciation for the Austin Powers films.
Mike got it the day George died.
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Today in 1993 - 29 years ago - MTV aired Nirvana's "Unplugged" session for the first time.
Unlike many artists who appeared on the show, the band filmed their entire 14-song performance in one take.
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"The minute I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show—and it's true of thousands of guys—there was the way out. There was the way to do it. You get your friends and you're a self-contained unit. And you make the music. And it looked like so much fun." - Tom Petty
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Which band or musician have you been a fan of the longest?
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In 1994, Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan decided to invest $100,000 in a few local companies near Seattle.
He chose Starbucks, Microsoft, and Amazon.
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What is your favorite debut album of all time?
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What's a great song from an artist that has performed on SNL?
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Geologist finds a rare formation inside a rock that looks exactly like Cookie Monster on Sesame Street.
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I can relate to Hayden
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I'll be on NEWSTALK 1010 at 9:00pmET tonight to discuss the greatest gifts for the holidays I got as a kid. Hint: It'll have this on it. Listen live: iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010
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When Eminem was in rehab, Elton John would call him weekly to check he was doing ok.
Elton himself beat an addiction to cocaine and alcohol in the 1990s.
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
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Beyoncé can run a mile while singing.
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Comedia Ward Anderson has a wonderful cartoon series called That Christmas Show and it's available to stream now!
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Kim Simmonds, who led the blues rock band, Savoy Brown, since its formation in the mid-’60s, has died at the age of 75. Kim released over 47 albums through 2016. He was also a painter; the cover of his solo album, Out of the Blue, featured his original art, and he will be missed.
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Love this!
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65 years ago today, Elvis Presley's Elvis' Christmas Album, which includes his version of "White Christmas," hits #1 on the Hot 100. It goes on to become the best-selling holiday album of all time.
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On this day in 1966, Jimi Hendrix released his first single, "Hey Joe." It was also the first song, by coincidence, that Jimi played onstage when his future manager Chas Chandler was in the audience.
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My SiriusXM show: Interviews with Noah Wylie, actor, Leverage: Redemption; Rap star Desiigner; Roz Weston, author, A Little Bit Broken; Paul Gorman, author, Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press! Sat 8am + 4pm, Sun 12pm (all ET), Channel 167 + on the app anytime!
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Fleetwood Mac has released The Alternate Collection features alternate versions of their six biggest albums: 'Fleetwood Mac', 'Rumours', 'Tusk', 'Fleetwood Mac Live', 'Mirage' and 'Tango In The Night'.
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It’s difficult to make a cover sound like a unique production that does justice to its origins, but Moore Ave have done just that with Sublime's “Santeria.”
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Synth explorer, producer extraordinaire, and versatile vocalist Lady Charles, revisited “Flower Boy,” a retro ode from the retired band, Sparklesaurus.
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Wham!'s "Last Christmas" didn't hit #1 on the UK Charts when released in 1984. It was blocked by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" a song that George Michael is also on.
He donated all the profits of Wham!'s song to famine relief in Africa just the same.
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The term "candle in the wind" came from record label president Clive Davis, who used the phrase to describe singer Janis Joplin after her death in 1970.
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During filming of Home Alone, Joe Pesci tried to stay as far as possible from Macaulay Culkin on set so that Culkin would actually be scared of him.
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The sound of the typewriter on Dolly Parton's "9 To 5" is actually her nails clicking together. She credits "Nails by Dolly" in the album liner notes.
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What artist or band has never had a bad album?
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A Charlie Brown Christmas singlehandedly killed off the aluminum tree for the holidays. Sales for trees with fake green needles soared by the 1970s.
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What’s your favorite TV show without actually saying its name?
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Don't act like I'm tough to shop for.
You know where the record store is.
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Lady Gaga's “Bloody Mary” leaps into the top 40 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart thanks to TikTok activity surrounding The Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday.
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Most No. 1s, Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay:
18, Shinedown
17, Three Days Grace
13, Five Finger Death Punch
13, Van Halen
12, Godsmack
11, Disturbed
11, Foo Fighters
11, Metallica
10, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)
10, Volbeat
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