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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Introducing "Uncharted": Depeche Mode and the Debauched Devotional Tour
Description: I once had a conversation with someone about the craziest tours in the history of music…the usual names came up.
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The who trashing hotel rooms…led zeppelin’s tours with their private jet, groupies, and tons of drugs…that time in Atlanta when Ozzy drank himself into oblivion, passed out in the wrong hotel room for 24 hours, and missed a show as a result.
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In 1976, ZZ Top tried to take the entire Texas experience on the road, which involved transporting real live animals to every gig…a buffalo escaped and managed to w...