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'Purple Rain' star Morris Day opens up about Prince's 'Jesus complex'
If Morris Day had his way, the star of “Purple Rain” would have been Prin🌳ce’s black eye. As The Time frontman, who was Prince’s on-screen and off-screen rival, reveals in...
How cocaine, fame and the Mafia destroyed soccer's greatest star
Diego Maradona passed away o🔜n Wednesday at the age of 60. The Post's Hardeep Phull wrote this feature previewing HBO's 2019 documentary on the controversial Argentinian legend. One night in...
How 'Blinded by the Light' writer got Springsteen's attention
In his 1984 track “No Surrender,” Bruce Springsteen famously wrote, “W🍌e learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.” Sarfraz Manzoor knows that feeling. Growing...
Secrets behind 'Born in the USA' as Bruce Springsteen's classic turns 35
Surprising stories about the al𓄧bum that made The Boss a hous♕ehold name.
John Lennon dropped big bucks at House of Oldies♌ record store
Any store would be thrilled to have a member of The Beatl🉐es browse their shelves. But when John Lennon would walk in to the West Village record store Ho✃use of...
How Weezer's Rivers Cuomo went from 'quiet life' to viral 'Africa' sensation
When Weezer’s 2018 cover of Toto’s “Africa” earned the band its biggest Hot 100 smash since 20♚05 (and hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart), singer Rivers Cuomo marked...
Why toddlers ar🐲e the hottest tastemakers in music
When friends and colleagues found𝐆 out my wife and I were expecting, they instantly pegged me — a music writer who’s 🐲covered rock and pop for 20 years — as...
Freddie Mercury, Elton John a💝nd Rod Stewart wanted to form a supergroup 🎀
When Freddie M♏ercury made his final on-camera appearance in the music video💛 for “These Are the Days of Our Lives” in 1991, AIDS had left him gaunt and frail. The...
This street photographer captured the sex and danger of ’8🐓0s NYC
🧜 Hookers, users, mentally disturbed transients . . . and that 𓃲was just the neighbors. It was the experience Jane Dickson and her husband, filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, had, while living right by Times...
This 70-year-old LI couple is punk rock royalty ꧂
Next time you’re at ඣa rock show in New York and security open⭕s the VIP section for incoming patrons, the chances are it’s probably not Taylor Swift or a member...
🌊 The Beastie Boys have kept a giant penis in storage for 30 y🦩ears
When the Beastie Boys first hit it big in 1987, they were seen as “Animal House” frat dudes, thanks to the video for first single “(You Gotta) Fight ൩for Your... ꦏ
NBA star Kyrie Irving: Acting is harde🍸r🌊 than hoops
At more than 7 feet tall, and over 300 pounds, it’s safe to assume that Shaqu𝓀ille O’Neal is someone you don’t want to irritate. But that’s exactly what Boston Celtics...
🐓 That time Dee Dee Ramone tried to seduce a music mogul ཧ
In 1982, music business mogul Seymour Stein — the co-founder of Sire Records — was at Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East ജSide, recuper🐬ating from a heart operation, when...
Journey's keyboardist didn't want his song to win a Grammy
It's the song that truly does go on and on and o🍒n ... J🌠ourney’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” was a Billboard Top 10 hit upon its release in 1981, but it’s...
Even Beyoncé can't stop Coachella from sucking
If your social media feed was abuzz with snap👍s from the annual Coachella festival this weekend, it probably looked like an idyllic gathering of the world's most beautiful people, all...
People hated 'Scarface' until hip-hop gave it cred
Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” has a rightfully earned reputation as a blood-fest, but the reviews it received upon release in 1983 were almost as gory. “An overblown B-movie,” was New... 𝓀
Toto's 'Africa' is somehow a millennial frat anthem — and the band is 'boggled'
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY You can still hear it blas﷽ting out of classic rock and golden oldies stations all over the world, and against all odds, 📖Toto’s “Africa” has become a millennial anthem...
⛎ These celebs are pretty pissed off about the Grammys
Music’s biggest night? Moreཧ like music’s biggest gripe. The 60th Gra𝓡mmy Awards were supposed to be a glittering display of the pop world’s finest acts. But some celebs still found...
How𝓰 the Grammys handled social issues, Trump 🥀
The 60th Grammജy Awards peaked in the first five minutes. Kendrick Lamar’sꦏ scintillating opening performance at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was a statement of intent — not just on...
These are the artists who'll be going home with a Grammy
The 60th annual Grammy Awards will air Sunday night on CBS. Here, Post music critic Hardeep Phull predicts who will take home the top prizes. Record of the😼 Year “Redbone”...