PRINCE STORIES

'...WHEN PRINCE DIED AT 57 on April 21, 2016, the world turned purple with grief.

The unexpected passing of one of the best-selling recording artists in music history

came as a shock to those who had, in Prince’s music, found a soundtrack to their

youths, an antidote to their loneliness and permission to simply be: if the world could

embrace a man whose every fiber defied easy categorization, then it should be able to

embrace any one of us.'

'In the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon, an ode to

Hollywood glamour shot in plush, feathery black and white, Prince appears as a pianist

and hustler who falls for snooty rich girl Kristin Scott Thomas. At first, she’ll have

nothing to do with him, and Prince, wounded, decides to get the better of her.'

'That’s charisma. And the only star who had more than Elvis was Prince. His hotness

differed, of course; it came from somewhere else. Cardboard won’t cut it for him. If

Elvis was sex, Prince was a sexual orientation. His own. And it was oriented toward you.

And you. And you...'

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BLACK SABBATH STORIES

'Nowadays, of course, we’re all so jaded that a whole genre of horror films can

call themselves “torture porn” and it’s all fine and dandy, but back then it was a

wholly different story.'

'As Butler told me, “We did the first

album in two days. That’s the way it should be. The second album was done in

five days and the third one in a week, and those were our biggest-selling albums

—and are to this day.” '

'In 1997, Sharon contacted Iommi and asked him if he was interested in

reforming the classic 1970s Black Sabbath lineup for Ozzfest’s second year, and

he agreed.'

'Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career was his first priority in 2006, and why not?

He had outstripped Black Sabbath in terms of sheer sales and media

presence some years previously...'

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BOB MARLEY STORIES

'...Although he lived a short life, only 36 years, Bob penned an enormous

quantity of songs. And unlike some songwriters, Bob was involved in all

aspects of the creation of his music. He worked on each of the instrumental

parts, wrote the lyrics, and had his hand in the control room while the

initial tracks were being laid down, in addition to being involved in the

editing and overdubbing process that yielded the final product. Bob’s

sound was so characteristic of reggae that it virtually cornered the “roots

reggae” designation'

'The year 1975 was that during

November, Bob, Peter, and Bunny reunited for their last time on stage.

American popular musician Stevie Wonder was slated to play a benefit

concert at Jamaica’s National Stadium. The concert was staged to raise

money for the Jamaican Institute for the Blind and Stevie Wonder was

well aware of the Wailers’ material. The reconstituted Wailers performed

at Wonder’s benefit concert and he was blown away.'

'With this more specific diagnosis, Bob was informed that he likely had

between four and five weeks left to live and that he should put his affairs

in order. As a means of relieving the pressure caused by the tumor in his

skull, Bob began receiving radiation treatments to try to reduce the size

of the brain tumor. An unfortunate result of the Sloan-Kettering visit

was that Bob’s condition was leaked to the media. On October 8, 1980,

news of Bob’s cancer was announced on various radio stations in New

York. Station WLIB was the first to announce Bob’s health concerns over

the radio. The news spread quickly and soon Bob’s condition was known

internationally.'

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MOTÖRHEAD STORIES

'Wurzel, Wurzel! One guy followed us all over the continent – he pawned his VCR to do it. He beat us to town on the trek from Adelaide to Melbourne, which is a long fucking way. His

car was dead, ’cause that’s not a hospitable climate!'

'Back at the hotel, Phil and Eddie took all the furniture and everything

out of their room and put it up in the garden outside. It was a complete

replica of the room’s layout only out of doors...'

'What a sight – thousands of people storming the Hungarian army! We performed in front of an audience of 27,000. Great show. The killer was it was in Hungary so nobody heard

about it. I always find that when you play in these depressed, so-called 

Third World countries, the people are much more trusting and kind.'

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MÖTLEY CRÜE STORIES

'One chick who used to come over was an obnoxiously overweight red-head

who couldn’t even fit through the window. But she had a Jaguar XJS, which was

Tommy’s favorite car. He wanted to drive that car more than anything. Finally,

she told him that if he fucked her she’d let him drive the Jaguar. That night,

Nikki and I walked into the house to find Tommy with his spindly legs flat on

the floor and this big naked quivering mass bouncing mercilessly up and down

on top of him. We just stepped over him, grabbed a rum and Coke, and sat on

our decimated couch to watch the spectacle....'

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LENNY KRAVITZ

Lenny Kravitz has been at the top of the music world for over 30 years, showing no signs of slowing down. A multi instrumentalist, songwriter, actor, and record producer his signature retro sound has incorporated all of the unique style's of the very best in music history, rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop, folk, and ballads. Lenny Kravitz more than any other musician has seamlessly blended these styles into his own, creating a musical fusion, a melting pot of past influences that he continues to efficiently MASTER and PRODUCE with every album.

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STORIES

'If ‘Changes’ was unusual, ‘FX’ certainly was way out there. We were mostly naked at the time when we recorded it. When you’re in the studio for hours on end smoking dope, you go a bit mad. We started playing and were dancing around half naked, just being stupid. I hit my guitar with my cross, it went ‘boing!’ and we went: ‘Ooh!’

‘Boing!’

‘Aah!’'

'It was a newly refurbished hotel, but Ozzy’s fireworks had burned the carpets and damaged the walls. They made him pay for it big time, so he learned his lesson there.

Or maybe he didn’t.'

'Working in this dilapidated old abbey was all right during the day, but they didn’t start the actual filming until something like midnight. They wanted to capture the light coming back up in the morning out of these ruins while we were playing there. By that time it was hellishly cold and we were frozen stiff. Cozy was drinking brandy just to keep warm, but he got pissed as a parrot.'

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RAMONES STORIES

'The quality that insured the Ramones’ first album would

become one of the most important records in modern rock

was the same quality that guaranteed they would never have

mainstream success in their time: a unified vision, the force of a single idea.'

'There is a purity to Ramones that is almost overwhelming and frightening.'

'Basically, the Ramones are the only punk group from the 1970s to have maintained their

vision for so long, without compromise—a vision fully and completely expressed on their very first album.'

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JOHNNY CASH STORIES

'My affair with pills had already begun. It quickly

became all-consuming, eating me up for the next decade

or so. Amazingly, it didn't completely ruin my career... I moved to Nashville, kicked my

habit, and married June. My career accelerated.'

'It got really strange in the bedroom. The gunman,

who was standing up on the bed with his muzzle an inch from John Carter's brains, started asking him friendly little questions: "What do you do down here? What do you

like to do in Jamaica? Do you snorkel?" John Carter answered calmly and pleasantly, and

when the truly weirdest thing happened, he handled himself beautifully.'

'The last time I saw him was a few months before he

died, and my favorite Roy Orbison story begins then.'

'It was a sad situation between Vivian and me, and it didn't get better. I wasn't going to give up the life that went with my music, and Vivian wasn't going to accept that.'

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