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Culture

The Bee Gees' perfect harmonies and humor charmed Johnny Carson in acoustic performance

The Gibb brothers found a deeper level of emotion in "Massachusetts."

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Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, in a 'party piece' joke gone wrong, once set a bandmate on fire

"I felt bloody awful. We still play jokes on each other. Not quite as severe as that. I learned my lesson."

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Culture

Freddie Mercury's final performance in 1988 was the operatic moment he waited his life for

It was the culmination of an incredible career that ended far too soon.

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Culture

The Bee Gees' blissful a cappella 'How Deep Is Your Love' might beat the classic original

Those harmonies never sounded better.

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In 1999, Genesis revamped a '70s classic with Peter Gabriel. It remains sadly overlooked.

The song still feels like a gorgeous glimpse of what could have been.

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Culture

Radiohead's Thom Yorke was so inspired by Queen as a kid, he tried to build his own guitar

"I didn't have any proper tools. I just had a f***ing hacksaw and brass thingies to smooth the edges.”

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Culture

The Bee Gees honored The Beatles with stunning covers medley in 1973

The Gibb brothers were highly influenced by the Fab Four.

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Culture

After Conan O'Brien lost 'The Tonight Show,' Robin Williams gifted him an 'absurd' pick-me-up

"I just couldn't believe that he was thinking about me."

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Culture

Jack Black recalls his absurd, aborted plan to audition for 'SNL' as a superhero

"It was a combination of The Hulk...maybe it was just The Hulk"

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Culture

When 'The Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley danced to obscure prog-rock on his hit sitcom

He was an enormous prog fan.

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Culture

John Lennon had a UFO sighting so vivid, he referenced the phenomenon in a song

"It wasn’t a helicopter, and it wasn’t a balloon, and it was so near."

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Nirvana's subversive performance on a teen pop show is one of the funniest TV-music moments ever

Obvious miming and deep-voiced weirdness.

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Family

An 8-year-old ordered 70,000 lollipops on his mom's phone. Here's how she got out of the mess.

"I just panicked, and when I saw what the number was, I just about fainted."

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Culture

David Gilmour's guitar strap broke during 'Comfortably Numb.' He handled it masterfully.

Grace under pressure.

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Culture

Jack White's old garage-punk band recorded a single and hid 100 vinyl copies inside furniture

"[W}e really went to great lengths to make sure possibly no one would ever hear our record!"

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Culture

Watch John Stamos improvise a wild drum part to a 2000s nu-metal hit he's never heard

You'll never see the Full House star the same way.

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Culture

Rush's Neil Peart, after suffering two tragic losses, grieved during a profound motorcycle trip

The drummer told his bandmates, "Consider me retired."

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