The 1970s gave us some of the biggest bands, albums, songs and rock stars ever. So we’re not digging through forgotten B-sides or asking who played tambourine on track seven. These are the songs and artists everybody knows (or at least, should know). The target is 18 out of 20. Think you can do it?
From film to pop music to sports, the variety of Hollywood collectibles is endless. But you'll never believe how much people paid to own these pieces of iconic celebrity memorabilia.
These famous Old Hollywood actresses fought powerful studios over contracts, roles, pay, and creative control, challenging the system that made them stars and sometimes changing Hollywood in the process.
Virna Lisi was groomed as Hollywood’s next Marilyn Monroe, but the Italian actress rejected typecasting, returned to Europe, and built a celebrated career on her own terms.
The 80s gave us sitcom stars who seemed to be in our living rooms every single week. Then the shows ended, the reruns disappeared, and many of their names vanished right along with them. You will probably recognize some of these faces. But could you honestly have named even five of them?
The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” became a 1960s rock classic, but garbled vocals sparked obscene-lyrics rumors, parental outrage, and an FBI investigation that still could not determine what Jack Ely sang.
Most successful albums spend a few months near the top of the charts before slowly disappearing. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon did something completely different. It remained a Billboard fixture for years...and then suddenly vanished from the Billboard 200 for more than two decades. So, what happened?
Dolph Lundgren went from chemical engineering and an MIT-bound future to Ivan Drago, Hollywood fame, and decades of action movies. Here’s how the unlikely transformation happened behind one iconic career.
Ted Danson became a television legend as Sam Malone on Cheers, but his career was far from finished. From Becker to The Good Place, here’s how Danson kept reinventing himself for decades.
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