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When Aerosmith's Steven Tyler offered to help Nirvana's Kurt Cobain kick heroin, Cobain's response was savage: "This guy didn't have to die," Tyler later maintained
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Epica's Simone Simons: "I've been called the metal Barbie, but I don't give a damn"
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The time the FBI investigated the 'murder' of Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor only to realise, two years later, that he wasn't dead
Back in 1989, the FBI opened a case to solve the alleged murder of a mysterious man on a video tape. That man was Trent Reznor, who was (and still is) very much alive
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