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New Order's Peter Hook on how the best-selling 12-inch single in music history managed to lose $100,000
"Every time we sold a copy of ‘Blue Monday,’ we were losing 10p," says Hook of the new wave classic that came out 40 years ago. "I suppose it really seals its place in history as a mythical being for that reason."
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Garbage's Shirley Manson remembers her see-through Grammy dress, 20 years later
Shirley Manson and Butch Vig of Garbage reflect on their career and their 20th-anniversary deluxe reissue of their sophomore album 'Version 2.0.'
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Sebastian Bach remembers 'I Remember You,' 30 years later: Skid Row thought ballad was 'too wimpy'
It's one of the most beloved power ballads of all time -- it's even been covered by Carrie Underwood -- but the song almost got left off Skid Row's 1989 debut album.
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Stone Temple Pilots reflect on Scott Weiland's death: 'It's heartbreaking that he's not here'
“There's something that doesn't feel quite right to sit here and talk about Scott. It saddens me that he's not able to be here and do it himself," says Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo.
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Backspin: Wayne Coyne remembers the Flaming Lips playing '90210's' Peach Pit
Coyne remembers thinking their 'Beverly Hills, 90210' shoot went so badly, he assumed the episode would never see the light of day.
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X talks 40 years of love, loss, punk and being 'just a little too weird'
“Maybe we were just a little too weird. I'm proud of that identity... We're still not quite ready for prime time. That’s beautiful.”
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Backspin: Steve Jones on the 40th anniversary of punk and whether the Sex Pistols 'could've ended up like U2'
Jones says he rarely spends much time thinking about what might have been if the Pistols hadn’t broken up after less than three years, spectacularly imploding at the Bay Area’s Winterland Ballroom at the end of an infamous, ill-fated, 12-date U.S. tour in early 1978. “But I do wonder about it, if we could have knocked another record out,” adds Jones, revealing that the Pistols attempted to write new music during one of their reunions, in 2003, but nothing came of it.
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