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“Rock star, everybody know me, money and fame like David Bowie.” – E-40, “Rock Stars”, 2012

“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.” – David Bowie

“Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.” – Garth Hudson, The Band

“Here Humble Pie were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt.” – Origin of the phrase “Heavy Metal”, Mike Saunders in a review for Humble Pie’s debut album, Rolling Stone, November 12, 1970

English rock band Bauhaus covered David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” in 1983 .

British rock band CREAM covered the blues standard “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” on their debut album Fresh Cream in 1966.

American rock band The Allman Brothers continued to make music for a stunning 45 & over 2,500 concerts, performing their final show on October 28, 2014 at the Beacon Theatre , NYC.

Ed King co-wrote the hit “Incense and Peppermints” for psyche rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock in 1967, and later co-wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” as the guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Punk rocker Patti Smith has been a longtime lyricist and backup singer for Blue Oyster Cult.

Rock band QUEEN did not tour the United States after 1982.

Shock rocker Alice Cooper claims to own the first “O” in Los Angeles’ famous “HOLLYWOOD” sign, bought in 1978 in memory of Groucho Marx as part of a sign restoration project.

Pope Francis released a rock album titled Wake Up! back in November 2015, reaching Number 4 in the US World Albums charts.

Danny Elfman, the lead singer of new wave dance rock band Oingo Boingo, wrote the theme song to The Simpsons.

Pearl Jam’s cover of the Wayne Cochran song “Last Kiss” is the 90s Seattle rock band’s highest charting song in the U.S.

Rock band Iron Butterfly didn’t know they were being recorded in the studio for 17 minutes when they played their now-hit song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida — it sold thirty million units.

Bo Diddley had a starring cameo in the 1990 goofball comedy horror movie ROCKULA about a vampire that starts a rock band.

Shock rocker Alice Cooper used to babysit a young Keanu Reeves while staying in Toronto.

The rock band Kansas used an image of famed militant abolitionist John Brown on the cover of their 1974 album “Leftoverture”.

New York rock band The Strokes was formed in Switzerland where the band members all went to school.

Eric Stefani quit rock band NO DOUBT to be an animator for The Simpsons.

Singer/songwriter Ryan Adams and Canadian rocker Bryan Adams (no relation) have the same birthday.

Ian McDonald, founding member of the band Foreigner, was also a founding member of influential progressive rock band King Crimson.

American rock band The Velvet Underground got their name from Michael Leigh’s 1963 book of the same name that explored a secretive sexual masochist subculture.

The influential rock band Molly Hatchet was named after a civil war-era prostitute who beheaded her clients.

Rock band Molly Hatchet covered Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally” on their self-titled debut album in 1978.

Curiously, reggae rocker Peter Tosh is one of the only humans to have an emoji based on his likeness, which is itself quite curious: “Man in Business Suit Levitating” Unicode: U+1F574

The album “Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds” featured the blues harmonica great backed by the budding British rock band, live at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, Surrey, UK on December 8, 1963.

90s hit rock group Blind Melon’s band name was an homage to the old “blind” blues player trope — and Blind Melon Chitlin’, a Cheech & Chong character.

The Zombies had broken up before their song “Time of the Season” became a massive hit, so before Dusty Hill & Frank Beard were 2/3rds of ZZ Top, they masqueraded as the British psych-rock band on a U.S. tour to cash in on demand from unsuspecting fans.

The English progressive rock band Genesis was formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, in 1967.

The 2008 Rock Doc “It Might Get Loud” features Jack White, Jimmy Page and The Edge discussing their influences and guitar style.

Jack White called Son House’s “Grinnin’ In Your Face” his favorite song ever in the rock doc “It Might Get Loud”

You can see Keith Richards gift Buddy Guy his guitar during Martin Scorsese’s rock concert movie “Shine a Light”, and it now hangs in Buddy Guy’s Legends in Chicago.