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When Sonny Franzese died last month at age 103, he was the last living remnant of the New York Mafia from its heyday. A feared enforcer and dictatorial head of the Profaci (later Colombo) family, he knew where all the bodies were buried, so to speak, and may have had inside knowledge on the JFK assassination. Frank Sinatra kissed Sonny’s ring many times in public, and his ill-gotten gains funded everything from Deep Throat and Texas Chainsaw Massacre to bubblegum music like “Yummy, Yummy, Yu...

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Legendary drummer Carmine Appice (BLUE MURDER, VANILLA FUDGE, KING KOBRA) has once again slammed the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, saying that the na...

VANILLA FUDGE has shared another reworked LED ZEPPELIN classic, "Ramble On". The track, along with the recently issued "Immigrant Song" and "Rock A...

The story behind Cobra Kai’s favorite rock band Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 19, 2021 The rock band Zebra. From left: bassist/keyboardist Felix Hanemann drummer Guy Gelso and singer/guitarist Randy Jackson. (Courtesy Bob Geiger) Facebook Share The antihero of Netflix’s biggest show in 2021 loves ’80s hard-rock. Over three seasons on “Cobra Kai,” blond badass Johnny Lawrence, deftly portrayed by actor William Zabka, has reveled to and repped bands like Ratt, Guns N’ Roses, Pois...