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The movie, directed by Brendan Toller, is scattershot, sloppy, fake-clever and infatuated with its subject to the point of indulgence.

His space alien persona and theatrical rock music drew comparisons to David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust character. But American audiences seemed unwilling to accept his sexuality.

Suzi Quatro Says ‘Perfect Storm’ Led to New Album Suzi Quatro is a rock star for the ages. Though barely a footnote in the States, her success and record sales worldwide present an entirely different picture of this rebellious soul. Since the mid-'60s, Quatro has been making a racket with her bass guitar, conventions of women in rock 'n' roll be damned. She formed the Pleasure Seekers with her sisters and friends, inspired by the British Invasion as well as their local Detroit music scene. The band quickly became fixtures in the local scene. Their first single, released on the local Hide...

As right-wing nationalists snarled, “America, Love It Or Leave It!”, as John Wayne romanticized anti-communist violence in The Green Berets, as police and the national guard plowed through anti-war demonstrations, the Vietnam-era peace movement countered it with expressions of dissent. Several early Bob Dylan songs and Barry McGuire’s folk anthem “Eve Of Destruction” were big 1960s pop hits to serve as peaceful protests against reactionary militarism and the threat of nuclear war. Many other hippie-folk and psychedelic artists created a more phantasmagoric approach to anti-war musi...

Jim Morrison, who died in Paris on July 3, 1971, at age 27. The album reached #9 on the Billboard 200 chart, and yielded two hit singles, “Love Her Madly” and “Riders on the Storm,” which peaked at #11 and #14, respectively, on Billboard‘s Hot 100. Among the record’s other memorable songs is the title track, which remains a classic-rock radio staple. Doors drummer John Densmore tells ABC Audio that he thought it was brilliant how Morrison “wrote metaphorically of L.A. as a woman” in the song. John explains that with the L.A. Woman album, The Doors continued their return to...