Anniversaries

He later called the Carole King-penned track "the best song written by a human being."

Being in both bands at the same time was not an option.

The album itself came out in 1995, but it was the following year that saw it truly take off.

In addition to starring in the movie as the Goblin King, he also wrote half the soundtrack.

He was backed at the time by none other than Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

A Queen track with no guitar? It happened in 1986.

A quip from his Auntie Lil helped inspire the No. 1 hit.

Motown's budding iconoclast finally forged a path to the individualism – and conviction – that he'd aspired to for so long.

"That song," manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham later admitted, "was going nowhere."

It took place at Birmingham University in England, where only around 300 people got to attend.

The blues legend was 70 years old.

They sounded like everybody — and nobody — else.