Ongoing History Daily: Some things you might not know about Alice in Chains
Some facts about Alice in Chains:
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20 years ago today, Layne Staley of Alice in Chains died
Layne Staley had been in big trouble long before he died. He got deep into heroin addiction, interrupted only briefly after Kurt Cobain died in April 1994. Things got worse
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Ongoing History Daily: Alice in Chains facts
Some facts about Alice in Chains: (1) When he got his first credit card, singer Layne Staley maxed it during three months of shopping sprees at Toys R Us. He
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 791: The Last Hours of…
At some point, all of us will shuffle off this mortal coil and join the choir invisible. It doesn’t matter who you are, how much money you have or how
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There’s a Commemorative Layne Staley Concert in Seattle Tonight the Week He Would Have Turned 50
Had he not drugged himself to death, Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley would have turned 50 this coming Tuesday. Instead of continuing to lead one of the great Seattle
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Looking for Clues for Why Chris Cornell Took his Own Life, An Eerie Facebook Post Has Been Found
A lot of music fans are finding it extremely hard to come to terms with how Chris Cornell met his end. That he’s gone is bad enough, but by his
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Chris Cornell and Growing Up in the Shadow of the 90s
It took me a few days to wrap my head around the death of Chris Cornell last Thursday. This is an excerpt from a longer post originally published at Scholars
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I’m Trying to Imagine Eddie Vedder’s Headspace Right Now.
First, it was Kurt, dead of a shotgun blast to the head. Then it was Layne Staley, who turned into a drug-addicted hermit, eventually dying alone of an overdose, his
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Random Music News for Wednesday, December 28, 2016
I’ve completely lost track of what day it is. Wednesday, right? That means there are four more days for the Grim Reaper to come calling before the year is up.
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