Music History

In September 1985, the Parents&nbsp;Music Resource Center (PMRC) formed out of concern for the dangers of music on the American public. The PMRC&#39;s&nbsp;founders identified the most offensive musicians and lyrics in the hopes of instituting a rating system for music, much like the one that existed&nbsp;for movies. The music censorship interest group believed that the material presented in popular music was poisoning the minds of America&#39;s youth, and the music industry needed to clean up its act before children were corrupted by the evils of rock and roll.&nbsp;

Two of the most prominent members of the PMRC&nbsp;were Tipper Gore, the&nbsp;wife of then-Senator Al Gore, and Susan Baker, wife of Secretary of State James Baker. They&nbsp;were also part of a group of women known as the &quot;Washington Wives,&quot; and they had enough clout in DC&nbsp;to get a Senate&nbsp;hearing about regulating the music industry.&nbsp;

The PMRC is the reason&nbsp;parental advisory stickers are still found on some albums today. Before it got to that point, Congress listened to some of the so-called controversial musicians singled out by the PMRC. One of the controversial artists, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/untrue-rock-star-rumors/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">rock star</a> Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, faced off with the PMRC&nbsp;and broke down their arguments one-by-one&nbsp;in a public forum.&nbsp;Snider&#39;s speech to Congress didn&#39;t save rock and roll (or any other kind of music)&nbsp;from advisory labels, but he definitely made an impression and got in some good punches&nbsp;as he made it clear he wasn&#39;t going to take it anymore.&nbsp;

The Time '80s Rock Legend Dee Snider Sounded Off Against Censorship In A Speech To Congress

General

The Legendary Dee Snyder Speech That Destroyed An Uptight Washington

Melissa Sartore

1980s

When Milli Vanilli burst onto the music scene in the late 1980s, manufactured groups had been around for years. But while acts like the Monkees and <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dark-behind-the-scenes-partridge-family-facts/melissa-sartore?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the Partridge Family</a> made it publicly known that they didn&#39;t necessarily play the instruments - or even perform the vocals, in some cases - and credited the musicians who did, the same can&#39;t be said for Milli Vanilli. Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were presented as both the face and talent of Milli Vanilli. The duo, their producers, and others connected to the group went to great lengths to keep up the ruse while keeping the identity of the real singers a secret.

For a brief time, the hoax was remarkably successful; Milli Vanilli&nbsp;made chart history, selling millions of records and earning instant fame. But when it was discovered that Pilatus and Morvan had not provided any vocals on the recordings and had lip-synced their way through live performances, the fallout was intense.

Here is how Milli Vanilli - whose name&nbsp;<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/milli-vanilli" target="_blank">was claimed to be a Turkish phrase meaning &quot;positive energy&quot;</a> but in reality was taken from a defunct disco in Berlin - went from Grammy-winning pop music sensation&nbsp;to a punchline in&nbsp;pop culture history in the span of less than three years.

How Milli Vanilli Lip-Synced Their Way To Grammy-Winning Stardom And Scandalous Pop Culture Infamy

Milli Vanilli's Lip Sync Scandal: How They Went From Grammys To Infamy

TGWrites

Musician/Band Trivia

Stevie Nicks became a household name alongside Fleetwood Mac bandmates Lindsey Buckingham, Christine and John McVie, and&nbsp;Mick Fleetwood&nbsp;shortly after the 1977 release of Rumours. Though the notoriously fluid <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/fleetwood-mac-lineup-drama-history/sean-kelly" target="_blank">Fleetwood Mac</a>&nbsp;had released&nbsp;several albums prior to&nbsp;Rumours, the soft rock record&nbsp;is responsible for placing the band in the mainstream consciousness. However, it is also responsible for multiple affairs between <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-stories-behind-fleetwood-mac-rumours-album/melissa-sartore" target="_blank">Fleetwood Mac members</a>, tumultuous separations, and heartbreak.&nbsp;

Stories from <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stevie-nicks-loves-and-hookups/celebrityhookups" target="_blank">Stevie Nicks&#39;s love life</a> are threaded throughout Rumours -&nbsp;&quot;Dreams&quot; is about her longtime partner Lindsey Buckingham - but her love affairs of the late &#39;70s were just the beginning of a series of romantic escapades. Aside from her&nbsp;laudable career, Nicks has endured incredible grief and heartache, as well as fairytale-level passion.

Nearly everyone&nbsp;who has dated Stevie Nicks speaks fondly of her,&nbsp;including the Eagles&#39; Don Henley and Joe Walsh - the latter of whom Nicks maintains was the love of her life. Even <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4L9F_dtB7OYC&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q=nicks&amp;f=false" target="_blank">Mick Fleetwood</a>, who thinks of Nicks as a sort of platonic soulmate, considers her and Buckingham to be&nbsp;eternally connected.&nbsp;

For her part, Nicks told&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/stevie-nicks-a-rock-goddess-looks-back-179984/" target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a>&nbsp;that she would be happy never marrying, as she&#39;s already &quot;had a lot of great relationships&quot; and her &quot;life today is great&quot; because of her friends and music.&nbsp;

Fascinating Stories From Stevie Nicks’s Love Life

Bailey Brown

Rock

Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Don McLean all have at least one influence in common: Buddy Holly. As a young man, McLean was so affected by <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-buddy-holly-songs/voteable" target="_blank">Holly</a>, he later wrote &quot;American Pie&quot; about what happened on the day the music died; his poetic label for Holly&#39;s tragic demise. The day the song refers to was February 3, 1959,&nbsp;when rising music stars Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson, AKA The Big Bopper, perished when their private airplane impacted into a snowy field. All three were on the verge of success and were touring the upper Midwest on the Winter Dance Party tour when they made the fateful decision to skip a bus ride to their next destination and take a plane instead.

Holly was the biggest name on the tour, and sales of his records increased posthumously. In addition to influencing the way rock &#39;n&#39;&nbsp;roll is performed by using one bass, one drum, and two guitars, Holly&#39;s embrace of his everyday-guy looks and <a href="https://historydaily.org/buddy-hollys-glasses-found-21-years-after-his-death" target="_blank">thick glasses</a> was appealing to fans across the country. Valens and Richardson each created a couple famous hits still featured in oldies collections, and could very well have had long, successful careers if they survived. Through &quot;La Bamba,&quot; Valens is credited with helping to start Chicano rock, and who knows where Richardson&#39;s energetic stage presence may have taken him.

Like many <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/99-famous-people-who-died-young/james707" target="_blank">popular people</a> who passed while still young, the three musicians&#39; final moments are riddled with conspiracies, and legends surrounding the event wonder who gave up their seat on the plane the day the music died, as well as who did not get on the plane the day the music died. Without witnesses, what really happened may never truly be known, but the day three promising musicians lost their lives will be remembered by history forever.

What Actually Happened The Day The Music Died?

What Happened On The Day The Music Died?

Erin McCann

Celebrities

The sordid and sad story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen's doomed love has permeated rock n' roll since Spungen's murder in 1978. From their self-abuse to their drug addiction to their co-dependency, no young couple encapsulates the live fast, die young ethos of punk more than the tragic duo.&nbsp;The starcrossed couple were deeply troubled long before they met. Spungen lived life as a prostitute and drug dealer and Vicious, who replaced Glen Matlock on bass in the Sex Pistols, was the unwanted product of a drug addict mother. The kindred spirits found a soul mate in each other, which wasn't necessarily a good thing. They were both dead within a couple of years of meeting and neither ever reached the age of 22.&nbsp; &nbsp;

The Saddest Parts Of Sid &amp; Nancy's Doomed Romance

Horrifying Aspects Of The Doomed Love Between Sid & Nancy, The Dumbest, Most Abusive Relationship In Music

Michelle Nati

The most bananas stories and insane 100% true tales about the lives and behind-the-music antics of your favorite rock stars and legendary bands.

Freakin' Rock Stars

True Stories

The rollercoaster&nbsp;history of the Mamas &amp; the Papas is an LSD-encrusted example of how too much free love - and an insane amount of drugs - ended up destroying the flower power of the 1960s. For a band to rise so quickly to fame, create a handful of hit <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-the-mamas-and-the-papas-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">songs that are still beloved</a> today, and then implode on itself after only a few years, the behind the scenes stories must have been intense. According to tales of sex, drugs, and an alleged&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/relationship-between-john-and-mackenzie-phillips/mariel-loveland" target="_blank">disturbing father-daughter relationship between John and Mackenzie Phillips</a>, they were.The band began performing in 1965 and the Mamas &amp; the Papas members included Mama Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty, John&nbsp;Phillips, and his wife, Michelle. The Mamas &amp; the Papas quickly gained fame with hits like &quot;California Dreamin',&quot; but troubled relationships between members ended their union after only three years. The Mamas &amp; the Papas drugs relationship was so potent, Elliot died by heart attack when she was 32 and Doherty and John Phillips passed away in their 60s from liver and heart problems. What happened to these forerunners of flower power who made hippies look stylish? The stories behind the music are out-of-control.

Jaw-Droppingly Out-Of-Control Stories From The Mamas &amp; The Papas

12 Unbelievable Stories About The Mamas & The Papas

Axl Rose stories are the stuff of rock and roll legend. The lead singer of Guns N' Roses has led such a colorful life even his roadies got in on the action, as evidenced by Axl Rose roadie stories circling&nbsp;the globe. Whether he's starting random fights, walking off stage in the middle of concerts, felling winged creatures with shotguns, or showing up hours late for commitments, all the&nbsp;crazy Axl Rose stories you've heard are true, and completely insane.&nbsp;Guns N' Roses shot to stardom during the spandex-and-glitter nightmare carnival of hair metal, in 1987,&nbsp;and offered a dirty, rough, violent antidote to the empty calories of glam sleeze's nonsense confections. Like many bands of the era, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/wild-guns-n-roses-stories/brandon-michaels" target="_blank">they were&nbsp;known for hard partying</a>, their days and nights saturated with alcohol, drugs, women, and excess.Frontman Axl Rose, who was born William Bruce Rose on February 6, 1962 in&nbsp;Lafayette, Indiana,&nbsp;announced himself as a volatile presence&nbsp;as soon as GnR's worldwide dominance began; a new&nbsp;bizarre Axl Rose scandal seemed to emerge every week. The volatility of the band as a whole, and its individual members, added to the excitement of their music and shows.&nbsp;The self-destructive energy&nbsp;Axl channeled into his music led him&nbsp;to the top, and&nbsp;kept him from staying there.The&nbsp;Axl Rose weird stories on this list demonstrate his unpredictable mood swings; several tales of Axl Rose fights pit him against other celebrities. Even true fans may be surprised at these crazy stories about one very wild rock star.

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29 Insane Axl Rose Stories That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

Rammstein is&nbsp;an <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/berlin-bands-and-musical-artists-from-here/reference?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">industrial metal band from Berlin</a>, Germany, that&nbsp;has maintained&nbsp;a huge American following since its inception in 1994. There are six members:&nbsp;Richard Z. Kruspe, Oliver &quot;Ollie&quot; Riedel, Christoph &quot;Doom&quot; Schneider, Till Lindemann, Paul H. Landers, and Christian &quot;Flake&quot; Lorenz.

Rammstein has always been controversial, from its song topics to the elaborate live shows they&#39;ve staged all over the world.&nbsp;

In addition to the controversy surrounding the music, the band members themselves have been the subject of numerous antics over the years. For instance, guitarist Richard Kruspe&nbsp;had a child with lead&nbsp;singer Till Lindemann&#39;s ex-wife. And one night on stage, Lindemann used a dong-shaped canon to blast foam into the crowd during a performance at Madison Square Garden.

Everyone has an opinion about the&nbsp;band, but not everyone knows Rammstein&#39;s full story.&nbsp;Check out these Rammstein facts that sound wild - even for this band.&nbsp;

Crazy Stories Of Rammstein, That Band Every Dude In High School Loved

14 Crazy Stories You've Never Heard About Rammstein

Anna Lindwasser

Tragedy struck Lynryd&nbsp;Skynyrd, one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/southern-rock-bands-and-musicians/reference" target="_blank">best Southern rock bands</a>, just three days after the group&nbsp;released its&nbsp;fifth album and was seemingly on the brink of unprecedented popular acclaim. On October 20, 1977, a plane crash killed three members of the group, including its guiding light,&nbsp;<a href="https://groovyhistory.com/lynyrd-skynyrd-plane-crash-ronnie-van-zant" target="_blank">Ronnie Van Zant</a>.&nbsp;What caused Lynyrd&nbsp;Skynyrd&#39;s&nbsp;plane to crash? Even in the 21st century, despite an official investigation and opinion that characterized the crash as the result of pilot error, the circumstances and decisions that led to the aircraft&#39;s unusual demise&nbsp;remain unknown.&nbsp;

Lynyrd&nbsp;Skynyrd&nbsp;is considered to&nbsp;have one of the most&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/gruesome-band-histories/daniel-kohn" target="_blank">gruesome band histories</a>&nbsp;because they lost several people in the aerial&nbsp;accident.&nbsp;Who died in the Lynyrd&nbsp;Skynyrd&nbsp;plane crash? Of the 24 passengers who boarded the ill-fated flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, three&nbsp;members of the band were killed. The death of lead singer <a href="https://groovyhistory.com/lynyrd-skynyrd-plane-crash-ronnie-van-zant" target="_blank">Ronnie Van Zant</a>,&nbsp;guitarist&nbsp;Steve Gaines, and his sister&nbsp;Cassie Gains, along with&nbsp;the aftermath of the tragedy,&nbsp;essentially destroyed one of the most unique voices of American rock and roll. Listed here are&nbsp;the facts behind the infamous plane crash that ended Lynyrd Skynyrd.&nbsp;

Falling Free Bird: The Truth About The Infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash Is Stranger Than Fiction

The Truth About The Infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash Is Even Stranger Than The Fiction

Phil Gibbons

Detailing the most dramatic, pettiest, most savage and entertaining feuds in the history of the music biz.

Dueling Divas

Metal

In 1999, music lovers everywhere were given a gift from a 19-year-old college student named Shawn Fanning. Napster was a peer-to-peer file sharing service that was incredibly easy to use. All you had to do was search through the browser for whatever song you wanted, and once you found it, you&nbsp;could download an mp3 from another user. By using the site, you agreed to have your files shared between users, making the application a modern underground version of tape trading. When hard rock stalwarts Metallica discovered the service, its days were numbered.&nbsp;

On April 13, 2000, Metallica sued fans, Napster, and specific colleges that refused to block the service. What happened to Metallica to make them so upset about people who wanted to listen to their music? Were they wrong to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/foxy-brown-vs-lil-kim/anncasano" target="_blank">get into this feud</a>? Metallica is still dealing with Napster backlash almost two decades after the suit was settled, and the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-stories-behind-fleetwood-mac-rumours-album/melissa-sartore" target="_blank">stories of this suit</a> are some of the tastiest morsels of music rivalry stories that have ever been dished out.&nbsp;

Metallica’s Fight Against Napster Was The Least Metal Thing They’ve Ever Done

Metallica's Napster Lawsuit Was The Least Metal Thing They’ve Ever Done

Jacob Shelton

Fun facts, fascinating trivia, and wild stories about some of your favorite ladies behind the microphone.

Let's Hear It for the Girls

Singers

Although it has been imitated for decades, Billie Holiday's iconic voice is a true <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-female-jazz-singers/rockboy" target="_blank">jazz-age original</a>. Her haunting and melancholy music is a reflection of a life filled with love and pain. Growing up in poverty, barely surviving on the streets of New York in the 1930s, and years of substance abuse shaped Holiday's future and crafted a voice that could stop a person in their tracks.She is remembered for many hits that have been endlessly covered since <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/surprising-historical-celebrity-deaths/erin-wisti" target="_blank">her early death</a>, the most haunting of those being the protest poem-turned-song &quot;Strange Fruit.&quot; Her music, with its unique cadence and moving lyrics, pays tribute&nbsp;to the life of Billie Holiday, an artist with incredible strength,&nbsp;resilience, and talent.

The Unprecedented Rise And Tragic Death Of Billie Holiday

Rachel Souerbry

Singer. Songwriter. Actor. Activist. Though he is seemingly a jack of all trades, all of the insane <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-willie-nelson-albums-list/reference">Willie Nelson</a> stories out there illustrate something else about this one-of-a-kind performer: the guy is an undisputed legend. From run-ins with the law and the IRS to pulling off amazing feats of survival and heroism, from his well-known love of ganja to his alleged sexual proclivities, there is no end to the crazy but true Willie Nelson stories currently in circulation.Nelson was born in Abbot, TX, on April 29, 1933. He wrote his first song at the tender age of seven, and by the time he was 10, he was in a band. His love of music took him to Nashville, where he became an in-demand songwriter. But Willie's plaintive voice and virtuoso guitar-playing, coupled with his powerful original songs, soon made him a superstar in his own right. As of 2018, he has recorded 72 studio albums, starred in dozens of movies, and authored or coauthored nine books.Keep reading to discover some things you didn't know about Willie Nelson, his oftentimes bizarre exploits, and the stories that have helped make him an icon.

Insane Willie Nelson Stories That Are 100% True

12 Insane Willie Nelson Stories That Are 100% True

Donn Saylor

Many consider the Eagles one of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-rock-bands-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest rock bands of all time</a>. Whether you like them or not, their brand of SoCal rock changed popular music and sold millions of albums. But the band backstage led a more stressful and argumentative lifestyle than their easy-going songs may suggest. A decade of super-hits and sold-out shows was also marked with blowouts, brawls, and enough white powder to down an elephant. The Eagles&#39;&nbsp;rapidly changing roster and the egos that drove band members apart are <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/greatest-american-rock-bands" target="_blank">the stuff of rock &#39;n&#39; roll history</a>.

Like other early&nbsp;&#39;70s music legends, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/true-stories-behind-fleetwood-mac-rumours-album/melissa-sartore" target="_blank">such as Fleetwood Mac</a>, the personalities behind the band are often just as memorable as their hit songs. These Eagles behind-the-scenes stories&nbsp;show what these artists went through to tell America to &quot;Take It Easy.&quot;

The Eagles Sure Have A Lot Of Behind-The-Scenes Drama For A Band That Wants You To 'Take It Easy'

14 Stories Of Backstage Drama From The Eagles Band

Ryan Sargent

David Lee Roth is a legend. He&#39;s one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-10-lead-singers-in-rock-of-all-time" target="_blank">greatest lead singers of all time</a>, for one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-van-halen-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">greatest rock bands of all time</a>:&nbsp;Van Halen. Diamond Dave led VH from its&nbsp;initial success in 1978 through the coked-out, Spandex&nbsp;days of the 1980s, fronting the band 11 years and running&nbsp;with the devil every single day. A consummate rock star, Dave&#39;s&nbsp;over-the-top persona&nbsp;and insane stage antics often overshadowed the genius of the band&#39;s music, which more or less conjured the entire genre of hair metal from thin air. David Lee Roth and Van Halen had quite a&nbsp;run together, as these crazy David Lee Roth stories&nbsp;attest.&nbsp;

Though you may know Diamond Dave most as <a href="http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Rockzo" target="_blank">the inspiration for Dr. Rockzo</a>, or as a man who would certainly win the gold in skiing the powdery slopes of Blow Town, he&#39;s also&nbsp;the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;best-selling author&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Heat-David-Lee-Roth/dp/0091874807/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1500058240&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=rankercom-20" target="_blank">Crazy From the Heat</a> (his autobiography). And, in case you forgot, he&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-david-lee-roth-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">successful&nbsp;solo career</a>&nbsp;for a few years after leaving Van Halen, during which he indulged&nbsp;his&nbsp;Diamond Dave tendencies to&nbsp;the extreme, living as a bonafide fornication machine always ready to party. Even in his 60s, he&#39;s&nbsp;the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744822/bio" target="_blank">life of the party</a>: &quot;I used to jog but the ice cubes kept coming out of my glass.&quot;

The list of&nbsp;crazy stories and wild facts about&nbsp;David&nbsp;Lee Roth is almost never-ending. He joined&nbsp;Van Halen, then known as Mammoth, at 20, in 1974;&nbsp;developed a deep rivalry with Sammy Hagar, who replaced him in the band in 1985; and found&nbsp;a late-life new career in new media, as a podcast host. David Lee Roth has been entertaining audiences for decades, and this list is here so you can&nbsp;revel in the lewdness of the&nbsp;craziest moments from Diamond Dave&#39;s life.

Insane Behind-The Scenes-Stories About David Lee Roth's Career

Crazy Facts About Diamond David Lee Roth

Brandon Michaels

Long before the phenomenon that was Amy Winehouse, whose mesmerizing&nbsp;voice captivated millions, there was Janis Joplin, to whom Winehouse was often compared. While Joplin only released&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-janis-joplin-albums-list/reference" target="_blank">three albums</a> during her lifetime (and a few posthumously) and only one Top 40 hit, she still became one of the biggest American music stars of the 1960s, and her music continues to influence musicians today.&nbsp;

Joplin and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, first made a name for themselves at the 1967 Monterey Music Festival where she emerged a bright and talented star. Unfortunately, the lifestyle of a hard-partying &#39;60s rock star soon&nbsp;took its toll. Her love of whiskey brand <a href="https://vinepair.com/articles/how-janis-joplin-earned-a-fur-coat-by-drinking-southern-comfort/" target="_blank">Southern Comfort</a> became as well known as her voice, just like other hard-partying bands like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-led-zeppelin-stories/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">Led Zeppelin</a> or eccentric personalities like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-ozzy-osbourne-facts/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Ozzy Osbourne</a>. While the story of Janis Joplin&#39;s passing in 1970 serves as a somber end to her tale,&nbsp;underneath her music-star persona, she was a sensitive soul who had been damaged by bullies and&nbsp;hurt by lovers, and who wanted to be loved simply because she couldn&#39;t do it herself.

The Tortured, Painful Life of Janis Joplin, The Baddest Woman In Rock History

Unless you're a true fan, you may not know that wild tales about Nirvana include arson, food fights, and the odd alligator. The band&nbsp;shot to success virtually overnight with their 1991 single &quot;Smells Like Teen Spirit,&quot; and the trio became the leaders of the alternative rock scene. While many other bands emerged around the same time, Nirvana still gets rightful credit for bringing widespread attention to grunge and the Pacific Northwest.Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic formed Nirvana in the late 1980s, and they went through several drummers before&nbsp;recruiting&nbsp;Dave Grohl in 1990. Mainly inspired by punk rock, Nirvana found modest success with its&nbsp;first album Bleach, and the band's second&nbsp;offering, Nevermind, contained many <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-nirvana-songs/voteable" target="_blank">songs</a> that are still fan favorites.True Nirvana stories tell of musicians who were uneasy with stardom; Kurt Cobain in particular was uncomfortable with suddenly being&nbsp;considered the voice of a generation. He&nbsp;struggled&nbsp;with&nbsp;heroin addiction until&nbsp;committing&nbsp;suicide in 1994 at the age of 27. Fans' love for Cobain was&nbsp;so great, many <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/kurt-cobain-murder-conspiracies/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">conspiracy theories</a> about his death still circulate.Are there&nbsp;things you didn't know about Nirvana?&nbsp;Perhaps you'll find some crazy new facts in&nbsp;these stories about the tiny band with an enormous influence.

15 Crazy But True Stories About Nirvana

15 Crazy But True Nirvana Stories That Are Hard to Believe

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