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Jon Bon Jovi, 1985 (AP/Gary Gershoff)

We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic

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(Getty/Kevin Winter)

Wayne Coyne, mad scientist: “If the Flaming Lips make a wrong move, so what?”

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Colin Meloy of the Decemberists on the classic “Crane Wife”: “Everything exists in wartime in our songs”

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Rob Sheffield, David Bowie (Marisa Bettencourt/AP/Brian Killigrew/Photo montage by Salon)

Rob Sheffield: “What I love most about David Bowie is that he celebrated the romance of being a fan.”

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Bob Dylan (AP/Stefan Rousseau/Salon)

Stop buying old Bob Dylan albums: “Every time somebody buys a reissue, they’re just taking money away from new musicians”

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(AP/Chris Pizzello)

Punk pioneer Lenny Kaye reflects back on “the original sin of rock ‘n’ roll”

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Rivers Cuomo of Weezer performs during the Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas. (Paul A. Hebert/invision/ap)

Weezer is the absolute worst: Is Rivers Cuomo just trolling us all?

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(AP/Henny Ray Abrams)

Art Garfunkel’s greatest interview ever: “Paul and Artie can be very squirmy around each other”

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James Taylor (Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)

James Taylor, man out of time: “I feel like I’m a messenger from a prior world”

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Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell (David McClister)

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell: “Chasing art with great intent sometimes leads you to dangerous places”

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Jim James of My Morning Jacket (AP/Nick Wass)

My Morning Jacket’s “The Waterfall”: You’ve never heard Jim James like this

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Mark Knopfler (markknopfler.com/Tom Bird)

Mark Knopfler: “This getting older stuff ain’t for wimps”

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(AP/Anti Records/Mark J. Terrill)

Daniel Lanois: “It’s a good drug-taking record. It’s the headphone-listening, drug-taking record of the decade”

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Robert Plant (AP/Joel Ryan)

Robert Plant exclusive: “I don’t want to be stuck in the ’70s or the ’80s”

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Bob Dylan’s unguarded moment: The glorious subversion of the new “Basement Tapes” box set

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Thurston Moore (Matador/Phil Sharp)

Thurston Moore: Sonic Youth “wasn’t really surprising anymore”

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Sinead O'Connor in 1992; on the cover of her 2014 album "I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss" (AP/Ron Frehm/Nettwerk Music Group)

Sinead O’Connor: “I couldn’t understand why people liked me”

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Tori Amos (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Tori Amos: “I don’t know what you’re taking, but please can I have some, too?”

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The Afghan Whigs (Sub Pop Records/Piper Ferguson)

Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself”

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Natalie Merchant (Dan Winters)

Natalie Merchant: “When I talk to friends who have creative lives and children, we commiserate about all the time we wasted in our youth”

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain’s biographer: “I still don’t understand everything about him”

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The Baseball Project (Yep Roc/Michael E. Anderson)

Baseball’s greatest songs: 27 perfect songs, from Springsteen, Dylan and more

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Clockwise from Left: Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams (AP/Joel Ryan/Chris Pizzello)

The best and worst music moments of 2013

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Hall & Oates (AP/Reed Saxon)

I can’t go for that: The case against Hall & Oates

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