Music

Singer Johnny Cash heroically spoke out for Native Americans, the poor, and the incarcerated—but his personal life was like a black hole filled with scandal.

Singer. Actor. Professional tennis player. Fighter pilot. Dean Martin Jr. had the world at his feet—so where did it all go so wrong?

When her ex Serge Gainsbourg died, Jane Birkin spent four days with his body, mourning—but that’s not the strangest part.

Dennis Wilson from The Beach Boys infamously made music with cult leader Charles Manson—an association that ushered him into the greatest horror story of his life.

John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas was very open about his debaucherous lifestyle—but there was one disturbing secret he took to his grave.

AC/DC frontman Bon Scott was told to sleep it off in a friend's car. The next morning, that friend made a disturbing discovery.

Ronnie Van Zant was the lead singer of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd who loved a good bar brawl—and ominously predicted his own fiery demise.

Jerry Garcia may have looked like Santa Claus—and was as well-loved—but his smile concealed a dark side that not even music, adoration, or an endless supply of acid could erase.

This look at June Carter's tumultuous life is proof that even the most famous love stories are more twisted than they seem.

Seventeen-year-old Ritchie Valens had a huge singing career ahead of him—until a simple coin toss brought it to a tragic end.

Whether he was destroying hotel rooms, bags of illicit substances, marriage vows, or his drum kit—both literally, by setting it on fire and metaphorically with his virtuosic pounding—Led Zeppelin’s explosive drummer was a wild man with a very dark side.