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Patrick Ford / Redferns / Getty Meat Loaf Owned the Power Ballad
The late singer took the genre to unapologetically grandiose, glorious new heights.
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Michael Ochs Archives/Getty The 1970s Fashion Designer Who Was Outlandishly Ahead of His Time
Twenty years ago, fashion lost the visionary designer—and prophet—behind P-Funk and Kiss.
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Jack Robinson / Hulton Archive / Getty The Explosive Song That Liberated Tina Turner
Fifty years ago, the Queen of Rock seized her crown—and sparked her rebirth—with her fiery rendition of “Proud Mary.”
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Mike Slaughter / Toronto Star / Getty The Magnetic Song That Is Kenny Rogers’s Most Enduring Legacy
The country musician, who died Friday at the age of 81, was never better than on “Islands in the Stream,” his monumental duet with Dolly Parton.
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Jim Steinfeldt / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty … The Flawed Glory of the Replacements’ Don’t Tell a Soul
In 1989, the band reached for the mainstream with its sixth album. Thirty years later, the record’s stab at timelessness ironically makes it sound dated.
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Delay / Keystone / Redux Robert Frank’s Messy and Singular Rolling Stones Documentary
A controversial film about the band directed by the late photographer is an off-kilter masterpiece that reveals his singular eye.
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Michael Putland / Getty The Moon Landing Inspired Pink Floyd’s Most Overlooked Song
A bluesy, atmospheric piece that the band improvised live on the air during the Apollo 11 mission deserves to be more than a footnote of musical history.
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Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy / Shutterstock / … Finding Comfort in the Gloomy Beauty of The Cure’s Disintegration
How one writer came to love the band’s dark, shimmering masterpiece as a teenager 30 years ago
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Michael Putland / Getty Images Curtis Mayfield’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The two singles from the legendary musician’s first solo album were mirror images of each other: one reflecting empowerment, and the other total despair.
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The CW Saying Goodbye to the Most Beloved Father in Riverdale
Luke Perry, the Beverly Hills, 90210 star who died Monday, found new life on TV as the dad of Archie Andrews on The CW’s teen drama—a role that he was perfect for.
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Herb Snitzer / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty The Prowess of Nina Simone’s Early Records
What the artist's early singles—made before she was famous, and newly released—reveal about the legend she'd become
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Katja Bohm / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Sci-Fi Writers Imagine Iraq’s Future
In a new speculative-fiction anthology series, Iraqi authors consider their country’s tumultuous present as they envision how it could look in the year 2103.
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Steve Hengstler / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Remembering Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart
The musician, who died in September at age 56, helped influence alt-rock giants like Nirvana—but didn’t see the appreciation he deserved in his lifetime.
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Katie Posner Writing in Someone Else’s World
I stumbled on a high-pay, low-prestige way to enter the publishing world—and overcame my reservations to make the most of the opportunity.
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Marc Mueller / AP Nick Cave Is Still Looking for Redemption
The musician's new compilation album Lovely Creatures reveals a longstanding fascination with fables of doom and salvation.
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Frederic Meylan / Getty David Bowie’s 1987 Slump Held Its Own Weird Magic
His much-maligned album Never Let Me Down and the dazzling Glass Spider Tour it spawned were the work of a veteran artist in the throes of metamorphosis.
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