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30 Years Ago: Def Leppard Guitarist Steve Clark Dies On the morning of Jan. 8, 1991, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen received a phone call from his manager Cliff Burnstein, bearing news he had been dreading for close to five years. His best friend, co-guitarist Steve Clark, had died while sleeping on a couch. He was 30 years old. An autopsy revealed the Clark died from an unintentional overdose of alcohol, Valium and Codeine. “He had been drinking and he cracked a rib earlier on,” Collen wrote in his biography Adrenalized. “The doctor told him not to drink while taking his pain medic...

DMC on the message and meaning of the Queens icons... Run-DMC are undoubtedly one of the biggest names in music. Named Greatest Hip-Hop Group of All Time by MTV in 2007; in 2009 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the second rap group to do so. (with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five being the first.) Run-DMC’s history is steeped in groundbreaking moments for black music artists: The first rap group to go Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum, the first group to blend rock and hip-hop; to have airtime on MTV; to grace the cover of Rolling Stone Mag...

It brings them back into the fore and also breaks run-dmc in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way ♪ talk this way >> run dmc's latest album titled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. we'll be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. >> there are some that have >> the album is called "licensed accused your videos of being to ill." that's a stupid name soft porn. for an album. >> we like to call them tastefully smutty. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you don't want to ...

"raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "licensed to ill." that's a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you don't want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and they could really get busy...

"raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "licensed to ill." that's a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you don't want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> then when we started listening to their music they really were funky and they could really get busy...