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Ed Sheeran sure loves popping up in places.
Last week the adorable singer/songwriter was waiting inside a giant box on 50 Cent's stage. On the outside were written the words "There's A Monster in the Box."
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So much is written about our favorite music artists, but not until they tell the stories themselves are we blessed with the real inside information.
While not every narrator is reliable, for the most part music memoirs become the Truth until otherwise debunked.
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Stevie Nicks flew the coop in 1981 away from the hugely popular Fleetwood Mac to spread her wings with a solo album, Bella Donna, and a corresponding mini-tour.
Dubbed the White Winged Dove Tour after a line in her new tune, "Edge of Seventeen," the singer visited a dozen venues in Texas and the west coast before quickly reuniting with the Mac in France where they were recording Mirage.
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Pulp delighted their fans in Mexico City on Nov. 17 with a live debut of their new song, "Background Noise."
The Britpop legends who are winding up a reunion tour titled This Is What We Do for an Encore 2023, which started in the summer, took a break at the end of July and have been entertaining fans south of the border this month.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan, the guitar hero from Dallas, Texas, kicked off his epic Live Alive Tour on November 22nd, 1986 in Maryland.
Vaughan and his band Double Trouble would go on to play 215 gigs for the tour which was supporting their live double album of the same name.
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Adam Sandler live debuted the hilarious "Thanksgiving Song" on SNL on November 21, 1992, less than a year after becoming a cast member.
Sandler along with fellow cast member Kevin Nealon introduced the world to what became the most popular ode to Thanksgiving during the Weekend Update segment during the long-running series' 18th season.
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Wendy Carlos is an innovative genius who even shocked her own record label when her debut album, the synthesized retooling of classic J.S. Bach pieces, Switched-On Bach flew off the shelves and became one of the best selling classical albums in history.
In fact, on November 21, 1986, the RIAA certified the album on Columbia Records platinum after it had sold it's millionth copy.
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Jeff Lynne's ELO, which, let's face it, is the Electric Light Orchestra, played the cozy Irving Plaza in NYC on Nov. 20, 2015.
It had been nearly 30 years since the US got a proper show of Lynne banging out the perfect harmonies, and classic pop tunes that quickly became radio staples in the 1970s and sold 50 million records.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the wildest rock & roll shows of all time: the day Keith Moon took way too many drugs and was rushed to the hospital and a teenage fan sat in for him and jammed with The Who.
The story is not told enough, though when it is, it's often told wrong.
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When Dolly Parton was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame she took the honor so seriously she politely declined, stating that as a country singer, she appreciated the acknowledgement but she thought others deserved it more.
"I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out," the always classy Parton said in a statement she tweeted out to her five million Twitter followers. "I do hope that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will understand and be willing to consider me again - if I'm ever worthy."
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Lou Reed, the groundbreaking and beloved singer of the Velvet Underground, had an even more successful career once he went solo. Of the hits he delivered post-Velvets was the melancholy "Perfect Day" whose chorus has been known to elicit goosebumps to even the coolest cats.
Originally recorded in 1972 for his second solo album Transformer, produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, "Perfect Day" was a double A-side single with "Walk on the Wild Side."
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Geddy Lee, the singer and bassist of the legendary Canadian trio Rush, has written a book about his wildly successful career and is taking it on tour around North America.
Entitled My Effin' Life, the 70-year-old frontman kicked off the tour with a fun conversation with none other than Ant Man himself, Paul Rudd, at Beacon Theater in New York City.
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