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The Monkees' Davy Jones Recalls Beatles Friendship and Mike Nesmith's Disloyalty

Shirlaine Forrest, Getty Images When he appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' with the Beatles in 1964, Davy Jones had no idea he was staring at his future. On the show, he performed a song from 'Oliver!' the Broadway show he was acting in at the time. But two years later, he'd be cast in 'The Monkees,' a TV show about a band similar to the ...

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Journey's Jonathan Cain Credits Success to Dad's Support After Tragic School Fire

Ethan Miller, Getty Images For Journey keyboardist and guitarist Jonathan Cain, 'Don't Stop Believin'' has been a creed he has followed since he survived a horrific fire as an 8-year-old child. Having escaped the Our Lady of the Angels School blaze, which killed 92 of his classmates and three nuns, in 1958, the Chicago native was determined ...

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'Weird Al' Yankovic Explains His Rules for Parody Writing and Lasting Appeal

Jason Kempin, Getty Images There are three reasons why "Weird Al" Yankovic has been the undisputed champ of musical parodies for more than 25 years: First, he's never faced any serious competition. Secondly, the guy plays a mean accordion. And, finally, he's always managed to keep current. Now, Yankovic has returned with 'Apocalypse,' ...

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Songs for Dad: 20 Tracks to Help Keep the Old Man Current

Look, we know that your Dad is pretty set in his ways when it comes to music. If it were up to him, he'd probably hole up with his collection of Rush LP's and pretend new music ceased to exist after, say, 1996. But 'Tom Sawyer' gets pretty old after the first thousand listens (despite Neil Peart's ...

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20 Musicians Who Were Once Teachers

Songwriters have often penned odes to being hot for teacher. But in the '80s, the Police turned the tables with 'Don't Stand So Close to Me,' about a teacher who lusts after a student. That would have just been an interesting twist were it not for the fact that frontman Sting had actually been a teacher, ...

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It's the End of the World as We Know It: 25 Songs for Judgment Day

According to engineer-turned-biblical scholar Harold Camping, we're all doomed on May 21, 2011. People have been talking about the end of time since, well ... pretty much the beginning of time; but so far only the dinosaurs have taken a hit. Still, it gives songwriters good fodder for songs about the ...

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Superhero Songs: 30 Super Tunes About Comic Book Heroes

Getty Images / AP After Wayne Coyne's father died of cancer, the depressed Flaming Lips singer wrote 'Waiting for a Superman' in 1999, which reflected a desire to be saved by a superior being. Meanwhile, the 1979 Kinks tune '(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman' suggested we could better survive ...

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