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The Untold Story of Dionne Warwick: The Typo, the Astrologer, and the Voice That Outlasted Them All
Dionne Warwick has lived about nine lives in show business, and nearly every one of them turned on something absurd: a printer’s typo that became her name, an astrologer’s advice that nearly sank her career, a B-side that became a signature, and a lipstick container that got her arrested. Through it all — the chart…
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The Untold Story of Bette Midler: From a Steamy Bathhouse Basement to the Kennedy Center Honors
Before she was the Divine Miss M — before the Grammys, the Golden Globes, the Tony Awards, and the Kennedy Center Honors — Bette Midler was a girl from Honolulu singing her heart out in a basement full of steam, chlorine, and men in towels. Her rise is one of the strangest, funniest, and most…
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The Untold Story of Cher: The Goddess of Pop Who Reinvented Everything — Twice
She has been famous for six consecutive decades. She has topped the charts as a folk-pop duo singer, a solo ’70s hitmaker, and a ’90s dance diva. She has won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and three Golden Globes. She survived infomercials, divorces, industry exile, and the cruelest arithmetic in show business — the…
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The Untold Story of Journey: The Band That Refused to Stop Believin’
They are the definitive arena rock band of America, the group behind the most downloaded song of the 20th century — a song that wasn’t even a number-one hit when it came out. Journey’s story is one of the strangest in rock: a band that began as a jazz-fusion backup group, nearly got dropped by…
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The Untold Story of Earth, Wind & Fire: The Cosmic Funk Army That Defied Gravity
No band ever looked — or sounded — like Earth, Wind & Fire. Part R&B hit machine, part jazz ensemble, part ancient Egyptian mystery cult, part intergalactic traveling circus, they were the most ambitious live act of the 1970s and one of the most successful recording acts of any decade. Behind the glittering jumpsuits and…
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The Untold Story of Duran Duran: The Fab Five Who Nearly Died — and Lived to Tell It
They were the prettiest band in the world, and for a while, the biggest. Duran Duran didn’t just ride the MTV wave — they practically invented it, turning the music video into cinema and themselves into the defining pin-ups of the 1980s. But behind the yachts, the supermodels, and the perfectly tousled hair lies a…
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The Untold Story of Sade: The Reclusive Queen Who Made the Music Industry Wait
There is no one in pop music quite like Sade. In an industry built on noise, she built a career on silence — long, luxurious silences between albums, between tours, between public appearances. Six studio albums in more than forty years. A singer who could disappear for a decade and return to the top of…
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The Untold Story of Blondie: Catcalls, a Burned-Down Apartment, and the Rap Song That Beat Everyone to the Airwaves
They were the prettiest band to crawl out of New York’s grimiest rock club — and the most restless, curious, and fearless. Blondie surfed from punk to disco to reggae to rap, collecting four American No. 1 singles in four different styles, and along the way they survived a fire that destroyed everything they owned,…
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The Untold Story of Queen: The Fireplace Guitar, the Sun City Storm, and the Goodbye That Took 24 Hours
Everyone knows the anthems. But the real story of Queen is stranger than the legend: a guitar built by a teenager and his father from a fireplace mantel, matchsticks, and a knitting needle. A frontman who designed the band’s crest from the members’ star signs. A bassist who wrote their biggest-selling single and then vanished…
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The Untold Story of ABBA: Sequins, Tax Codes, and the Billion Dollars They Left on the Table
They sold hundreds of millions of records, won Eurovision in platform boots, and then walked away at the absolute peak — refusing, decades later, a reported billion dollars to reunite. ABBA’s story is far stranger and darker than the sequins suggest: a war child searching for the father who never knew she existed, a singer…