Word: superstardom
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...clothing store McLaren co-owned with Vivienne Westwood. Rotten’s claim that “only the fake survive” was used to incite a reaction among his fans, but in truth his statement was autobiographical. Vicious was unable to reconcile the sell-out aspect of superstardom with his belief in the tenets of punk rock, and died of a heroin overdose after the breakup of the band...
...proves that Kurt Cobain was truly different from Sid Vicious—that despite his claims at the end that he could not handle fame, what Cobain truly despised was the increasing lack of control over his art and his life that accompanied Nirvana’s rise to superstardom...
...label, says today's country music has siphoned off the "twang and pain" that made the genre meaningful and distinct. And Lewis should know, since he did some of the siphoning--he was president of Mercury Nashville when the appealing but almost twangless Shania Twain rose to superstardom. "I don't feel like there's any irony there," Lewis says. "Shania Twain and [her husband] Mutt Lange are brilliant songwriters. In a twisted way, they helped remove the stigma that country might bring to performers like Lucinda or Ryan...
...stars who went on to lead shattered lives. Take the calamitous life of Michael Jackson for example. When the Jackson Five first began touring in 1962, Jackie was 11, Tito was nine, Jermaine was eight, Marlon was five and Michael was only four. Although Michael Jackson reached unparalleled solo superstardom after his Jackson Five days, his early inception into the world of celebrity cost him more than his personal life; it cost him his childhood. Jackson has said, "I'd see children playing in the park and I'd cry because I had to go to work...
...unglamorous, she acted the way Frank Sinatra did, as an intuitive extension of the complex persona she had first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable to say about that molten mezzo voice and the shrewd musical mind behind...