She walked out of a Dallas hotel with 36 cents and a fuel card, kept only her name in the divorce, and spent eight years rebuilding to Private Dancer. The exact arithmetic of rock’s greatest comeback.

They met backstage in Shreveport in August 1980 and married eight months later. What the Van Halen-Bertinelli marriage survived, what it couldn’t, and why it never really ended.

Corgan re-recorded most of the bass himself and regretted the cost forever; Wretzky played it live a thousand nights. The honest answer to alt-rock’s most awkward credit question.

Recorded in secret during chemotherapy with a downtown jazz band, released on his 69th birthday, decoded two days later – Blackstar as the most deliberate farewell in music.

A bullet in Jacksonville ended Mac Rebennack’s guitar career at 19 – and sent him back to the piano, the persona, and the half-century reign of the Night Tripper.