Jesse Singer articles

Most bands are lucky to survive long enough to release a greatest hits album. These bands survived long enough to release brand-new albums 50 years (or more) after their first one.

Years after Yves Montand died, a French court ordered his body exhumed to answer a question that had followed him for decades. It sounds like the plot of a crime thriller, but it actually happened. And the answer would finally settle one of the biggest controversies of his remarkable life.

Everybody remembers Cheers. Everybody remembers The Golden Girls. But the 80s were packed with sitcoms that seem to have vanished into the TV witness protection program. Some were funny. Some were ridiculous. A few sound completely made up. Let's see how many you actually remember.

If you've ever spent 20 minutes looking for a show only to discover it's on a streaming service you forgot you even subscribed to, you're not alone. What was supposed to make television simpler has somehow become more complicated than cable ever was.

Every show on this list lasted exactly one season before the network finally pulled the plug. The surprising part isn't that they got canceled. The surprising part is that they survived long enough to finish an entire season.

Back then, everybody knew who they were. Today, mention some of these names to the average Millennial guy and he'll be reaching for Google before you finish the sentence. Let's see how many you remember.

These stars spent years on top of Hollywood. Fans adored them. Studios built movies around them. Some were among the biggest celebrities in America. Today, most people born after 2000 would scroll right past them without a second thought. How many do you remember?

Behind the fame, the interviews, and the carefully crafted public images were secrets that stayed hidden for years. Sometimes decades. A few managed to take those secrets to the grave. Most weren't that lucky.

Every generation thinks its music is the best. Every generation is convinced the next one has terrible taste. And yet, something funny happened. A surprising number of bands that Baby Boomers blasted on record players in the 70s are still showing up on Millennial playlists.