By Jessica Wedemeyer
8:22am PDT, Apr 8, 2024
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Let’s make a journey down reminiscence lane to see what a few of our all-time favourite rock stars regarded like throughout their early years within the music enterprise, beginning with musician C.J. Snare, who died on April 5 at 64 following a prolonged colon most cancers battle.
C.J. Snare joined FireHouse in 1987 after his former rock group, Maxx Warrior, disbanded and he remained a member for 4 many years. He is seen right here in 1991 — not lengthy after turning 30 — the identical yr FireHouse launched their hit energy ballad “Love of a Lifetime,” which he wrote whereas enjoying solo gigs at a Vacation Inn. C.J. and his bandmates — which additionally launched Billboard Prime 40 singles together with “Once I Look into Your Eyes,” “I Dwell My Life for You,” “Do not Deal with Me Unhealthy” — gained favourite new heavy metallic/laborious rock artist on the 1992 American Music Awards.
Preserve studying to see dozens extra extra rock stars initially of their careers…
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There is a motive why we name it hair metallic! Weapons N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan posed for this portrait someday within the late ’80s — not lengthy after his iconic band launched their hit debut album, “Urge for food for Destruction,” in 1987.
Duff and his wild mane left GNR after greater than a decade in 1997. He rejoined the group in 2016, 4 years after they had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
In recent times, he is collaborated with Ozzy Osbourne and Iggy Pop and launched a number of solo albums together with 2023’s “Lighthouse.”
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Low cost Trick singer and rhythm guitarist Robin Zander is seen right here in 1980, a yr after his band shot to fame with their stay album “Low cost Trick at Budokan” and the hit 1979 singles “I Need You to Need Me” and “Ain’t {That a} Disgrace.”
Robin and his bandmates later topped the charts with 1988’s “The Flame” and had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2016.
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Barry Gibb — seen right here at 23 in 1970 flanked by his late fraternal twin brothers, Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb (who had been 20 on the time) — shaped the Bee Gees together with his siblings in 1958. The British brothers loved main success within the late-’60s and ’70s and have become music superstars throughout the disco period largely due to the recognition of their vocal harmonies on the soundtrack for 1977’s “Saturday Evening Fever.”
The trio, who bought greater than 120 million data worldwide and scored 9 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1997.
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This duo made headlines in November 2023 when Daryl Corridor filed a lawsuit in opposition to longtime musical accomplice John Oates and was granted a brief restraining order in opposition to him…
Corridor & Oates — the duo based by John Oates (left) and Daryl Corridor (proper) in Philadelphia in 1970 — scored six No. 1 songs within the ’70s and ’80s together with “Wealthy Woman,” “Kiss on My Listing,” “Non-public Eyes,” “I Cannot Go for That (No Can Do),” “Maneater” and “Out of Contact.”
They had been each inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2014.
The musicians are pictured right here within the Netherlands capturing a video for his or her tune “Sara Smile” in 1976 when each had been of their late 20s.
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Aww! Nirvana drummer, Foo Fighters founder and two-time Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductee Dave Grohl was nonetheless in his 20s when he posed for this portrait someday within the early ’90s. (Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died in April 1994, a number of months after Dave turned 25.)
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Keith Richards was snapped enjoying guitar in 1964 — the identical yr the Rolling Stones guitarist turned 21 and his band launched their debut album.
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Late “Margaritaville” singer Jimmy Buffett is seen right here circa 1970 when he was in his mid-20s.
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U2 frontman Bono — seen right here acting at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard when he was round 25 in 1985, a few decade after his band shaped of their native Eire — as soon as rocked a wild mullet. On the time, U2 was simply two years shy of releasing their Grammy-winning 1987 album, “The Joshua Tree.”
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Rod Stewart is seen right here at 24 in 1969, the identical yr the rocker — who throughout the ’60s was a member of the Dimensions, Steampacket, Shotgun Categorical and the Jeff Beck Group — launched “An Outdated Raincoat Will not Ever Let You Down,” his first solo studio album. He additionally began fronting the band Faces in 1969. Rod was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as a solo artist in 1994 and for a second time — as a member of Faces — in 2012.
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Australian-American musician-actor Rick Springfield was a guitarist and singer-songwriter within the Down Underneath band Zoot from the late ’60s to 1971.
He then launched into a solo profession — he is seen right here in 1973 when he was in his early 20s — but it surely wasn’t till 1981 that he actually hit it massive: That is the yr he launched the hit observe “Jessie’s Woman,” for which he gained a Grammy.
Across the similar time he was having fun with the success of “Jessie’s Woman,” Rick was additionally making a reputation for himself within the appearing world enjoying Dr. Noah Drake on the favored cleaning soap opera “Common Hospital.”
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After slicing his musical tooth within the punk scene, Shane MacGowan — the England-born son of Irish immigrants — co-founded the Pogues in 1982 (he is pictured right here at 24 the identical yr). The band, which favored Irish devices and delivered generally politically-tinged music, is probably finest recognized for his or her 1988 album “If I Ought to Fall from Grace with God,” which options the wildly standard Christmas tune “Fairytale of New York.”
When Shane died in 2023, Eire’s President Michael D. Higgins was among the many many well-known associates and followers who paid tribute, branding him “one among music’s biggest lyricists.”
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English singer Kate Bush was 19 when she topped the U.Okay. singles chart for the primary time in 1978 — the identical yr she posed for this picture — together with her debut single, “Wuthering Heights.” She went on to launch two dozen extra U.Okay. Prime 40 singles in addition to hits like 1985’s “Working Up That Hill,” which turned her first Prime 40 tune in America (and loved a resurgence in 2022 when it was closely featured on the Netflix present “Stranger Issues”).
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Joan Jett sported her signature shag ‘do and a complete lot of angle on this portrait taken in September 1975 — the identical month she turned 17.
Lower than a yr later, her all-female band The Runaways launched their self-titled debut album that includes hits like “Cherry Bomb.”
Joan later shaped her personal super-successful band — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2015.
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Robert, is that you simply?! A 20-year-old Robert Smith — the frontman for The Treatment — posed for this portrait in 1979, the identical yr the band launched their debut studio album, “Three Imaginary Boys.”
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Joni Mitchell — extensively considered one of many biggest songwriters of all time — received her begin performing in her native Canada within the ’60s.
She’s seen right here at 25 throughout California’s Huge Sur Folks Competition in September 1969 — a yr after she dropped her debut album, “Music to a Seagull,” and a yr earlier than she launched early hits like “Huge Yellow Taxi” and “Woodstock.”
Joni went on to win 9 Grammys and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1997.
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Late Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer David Crosby is seen right here as a younger man in his 20s in an undated portrait taken throughout the Nineteen Sixties — the last decade he joined the Byrds earlier than co-founding the band Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1968.
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Singer-songwriter Grace Slick is finest recognized for serving as a vocalist and pianist within the San Francisco-bred rock band Jefferson Airplane. She’s seen right here circa 1970 when she was about 30 and fronting the group, which misplaced and gained members and later reworked into Jefferson Starship.
Grace was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.
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He was only a child! In mid-1982 — a number of years earlier than he joined Weapons N’ Roses and began sporting prime hats — a 16-year-old Slash was photographed enjoying together with his very first band, Tidus Sloan, throughout a lunch break at Fairfax Excessive Faculty in Los Angeles.
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Along with his lengthy mane of hair and extra-wide grin, Steven Tyler is unmistakable anyplace, anytime! The Aerosmith frontman was in his late 20s on this snap from 1976.
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Pat Benatar rocked a spectacularly late-’70s ensemble throughout a portrait session in Los Angeles in late 1979. She was 26 on the time and had simply dropped her debut studio album, “Within the Warmth of the Evening,” a number of months earlier.
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Nowadays, Ronnie Wooden is finest recognized for his work as a guitarist within the Rolling Stones, which he joined in 1975. However he really started his profession almost a decade earlier, becoming a member of the Birds on guitar in 1964, the Jeff Beck Group on bass in 1967 and Faces as a guitarist (alongside frontman Rod Stewart) in 1969 — the identical yr this picture of a 22-year-old Ron was snapped.
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David Lee Roth was all hair on this portrait taken in October 1978 — the identical month the previous Van Halen frontman turned 24. Earlier that yr, his band dropped their self-titled debut studio album.
In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame as a member of Van Halen.
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Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac are seen right here in a band portrait circa 1975 — the identical yr they launched their No. 1 self-titled album and two years earlier than they dropped the hit-filled masterpiece “Rumours,” which gained album of the yr on the Grammys and bought greater than 40 million copies, making it one of many bestselling albums of all time.
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A 22-year-old Tommy Lee was all hair and daring make-up when he posed for this colourful portrait in Tokyo in July 1985 — 4 years after he, Nikki Sixx, Mick Marks and Vince Neil based heavy metallic band Mötley Crüe in Los Angeles.
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Is it any surprise he gained Gwen Stefani’s coronary heart (earlier than breaking it into 1,000,000 items)?!
Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale smoldered in his late 20s on this snapshot from 1996, the yr his band dropped their sophomore album, “Razorblade Suitcase.”
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They’re again, child! On Oct. 20, 2023, blink-182 launched their ninth studio album, “One Extra Time…” It was the primary album in almost a decade to function founding member Tom DeLonge, who walked away from the group in 2015 amid pressure with bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker. Talking of Travis…
On this picture from 2001, Travis Barker is a number of tattoos and a shaved head in need of the music artist we all know and love immediately! The blink-182 drummer was simply 25 on the time. Three months earlier, the trio launched their hit “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” album.
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Have a look at that child face! Mark Hoppus — blink-182’s bassist, co-lead singer and co-founder — was 29 when this picture was taken in 2001, the identical yr his band launched their hit “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” album.
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Tom DeLonge was a complete pop-punk heartthrob within the ’90s. The blink-182 co-founder, lead guitarist and co-lead singer was three days shy of his twenty fifth birthday on this picture snapped in 1999 — the identical yr his band launched their first mainstream hit album, “Enema of the State.”
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Who may overlook the long-lasting all-female rock group The Runaways?
The band’s lead guitarist, Lita Ford — seen right here performing in 1976 — was nonetheless a teen when this picture was taken.
She helped pave the way in which for a technology of singing and guitar-wielding feminine rock stars and went on to attain a giant hit with “Kiss Me Lethal” within the ’80s when she pursued a solo profession with a pop-metal sound.
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Unforgettable! The late, nice Eddie Van Halen — who died at 65 in 2020 — rocked lengthy hair and a piercing stare on this portrait from late 1978, the identical yr his band, Van Halen, dropped their self-titled debut studio album. He was 23 on the time.
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We see now the place all these Harry Types comparisons come from! Mick Jagger is a useless ringer for the previous One Path singer on this snap taken exterior an airport in London in 1964 — the identical yr his band launched their debut studio album. The Rolling Stones frontman was simply 20 on the time.
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The late Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan’s guitarist within the ’60s and ’70s who handed away in 2023, discovered larger fame after co-founding music group The Band in 1973.
He went on to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame and to work extensively with filmmaker Martin Scorsese as a film soundtrack producer and composer on lots of the director’s most notable initiatives.
He is seen right here in 1971 when he was simply 27.
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The Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle posed for this portrait in 1986 when she was in her 20s.
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Metallica’s co-founder and lead vocalist, James Hetfield, is seen right here sporting lengthy locks in 1985 when he was 22. See him together with his baby-faced bandmates the next yr…
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In 1986, Metallica suffered a tragedy when bassist Cliff Burton was killed in a tour bus accident in Sweden whereas the band was touring to advertise their acclaimed third album, “Grasp of Puppets.” Musician Jason Newsted (second from left) changed him on bass and is seen right here at 23 together with his bandmates — a 23-year-old James Hetfield, a 22-year-old Lars Ulrich and a 24-year-old Kirk Hammett — throughout a photograph session in Tokyo in November 1986. Jason left Metallica in 2001 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame with the heavy metallic band in 2009.
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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts died at 80 in August 2021. The legend is seen right here in a snapshot from 1963, early in his profession with the band.
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After forming the band Kyuss as a teen, Josh Homme briefly served as a touring guitarist for Screaming Bushes — he is seen right here enjoying with the pioneering grunge band throughout the Lollapalooza tour in 1996 when he was 23. He shaped his most well-known band but, Queens of the Stone Age, the exact same yr.
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9 Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor — pictured right here at 26 acting on a Lollapalooza tour cease in 1991, two years after he launched the influential debut album “Fairly Hate Machine” — has discovered much more success making music for movies and TV reveals lately. He is gained two Oscars for finest authentic rating for his work on “The Social Community” and “Soul,” plus an Emmy for composing the rating for “Watchmen.”
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A baby-faced Sinead O’Connor received behind the mic on a 1987 episode of the long-running British docuseries “The South Financial institution Present.” She was about 20 on the time and contemporary off dropping her debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra.”
The alt rock singer-songwriter died at 56 on July 26, 2023. Six months later, in February 2024, ABC introduced that Sinead was one among 15 acts nominated for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2024.
“Nothing compares 2 Sinead O’Connor. The life and artwork of this Irish singer-songwriter and activist left an indelible mark on the soul of standard music. Musically, she mixed stylistic components from various rock, hip-hop, reggae and digital pop to punctuate and improve her sociopolitical messages,” the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame mentioned in a press release.
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Seashore Boys member Brian Wilson was solely about 23 when he posed for this portrait together with his canine in Los Angeles circa 1965. Regardless of being so younger, the songwriting genius and his bandmates had already launched seven studio albums by this level.
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Bruce Springsteen, is that you simply?! The Boss was only a child when he posed for this portrait circa 1970. He would’ve been in his early 20s on the time. (He dropped his debut studio album, “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.,” in 1973.)
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Grammy-winning Rock & Roll Hame of Fame member Carlos Santana is seen backstage on the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, in 1969 when he was 22 — just some months after his fame exploded with the discharge of his band’s hit debut album, “Santana,” within the wake of their electrifying efficiency on the Woodstock music competition.
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Who’s that woman? It is Debbie Harry! The “Coronary heart of Glass” singer and Blondie frontwoman regarded appropriately blonde and delightful following a 1978 live performance in New York.
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Simply have a look at how younger he was! The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is seen right here throughout the band’s Christmas live performance in 1963 when he was in his early 20s. They launched two albums that yr: “Please Please Me” and “With the Beatles.”
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Stevie Nicks is seen right here circa 1975 — the yr she joined Fleetwood Mac after beginning her profession as a duo with future ex-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham.
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Morrissey fronted the English rock band The Smiths from 1982 to 1987. He is seen right here in his early 20s in 1982 — two years earlier than his band’s self-titled debut album landed on cabinets.
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Lee Ranaldo (left), Thurston Moore (backside heart) and Kim Gordon (proper) shaped Sonic Youth in 1981. They launched a number of albums on indie labels throughout that decade — drummer Steve Shelley (again center) joined in 1985 — and made their main label debut with the lauded album “Goo” in 1990, the identical yr they’re seen right here. They disbanded in 2011 after Thurston and Kim break up after 27 years of marriage amid his messy dishonest scandal.
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Scotland-born, America-raised musician David Byrne is seen right here at 26 performing in Atlanta in 1978 — three years after founding the Speaking Heads with drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth. 5 years later, the band, which by then additionally included Jerry Harrison on keyboard and guitar, launched their mainstream hit “Burning Down the Home.”
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The Beatles singer, songwriter and bassist Paul McCartney turned 21 the yr this picture was snapped — 1963 — just some years after he, John Lennon and George Harrison shaped their band (Ringo Starr joined in 1962).
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Bon Jovi frontman Jon Bon Jovi was in his early 20s on this picture of him performing together with his band in England in 1985 — one yr earlier than their third album, “Slippery When Moist,” debuted.
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Genesis drummer Phil Collins is pictured right here in 1977 when he was in his mid-20s — two years after Peter Gabriel left the band, main Phil to take over as Genesis’s lead vocalist. Although Phil went on to nice success as a solo artist, releasing hits like “Within the Air Tonight” in 1981, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame with Genesis in 2010.
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Drummer Mick Fleetwood is seen right here at 20 or 21 circa 1968 — a yr after he co-founded the preliminary incarnation of Fleetwood Mac and the identical yr his band launched their first album.
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In 1994, a 27-year-old Billy Corgan carried out together with his band, The Smashing Pumpkins, in his hometown of Chicago.
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Jane Wiedlin, seen right here in her early 20s in 1981, was the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist within the all-female band The Go-Go’s — a pioneering drive in new wave pop music that delivered hits like “Trip,” “We Bought the Beat” and “Our Lips are Sealed” — earlier than she went solo.
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Lenny Kravitz was 25, married to actress Lisa Bonet and a brand new father to future actress Zoe Kravitz when he posed for this portrait in 1990, mere months after the discharge of his debut studio album, “Let Love Rule.”
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My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Approach was 27 when this {photograph} was taken! He is seen right here performing throughout the Nintendo Fusion Tour in 2004 — 4 months after the band’s second studio album, the triple-platinum “Three Cheers for Candy Revenge,” debuted.
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That hair! Eric Clapton was in his early 20s when he was snapped with a feminine companion throughout a photograph shoot together with his band, Cream, someday within the late ’60s. (He was simply 23 when the band’s ultimate album, “Goodbye,” dropped in early 1969!)
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The Who frontman Roger Daltrey (second from proper) is seen right here with bandmates Pete Townshend, Keith Moon and John Entwistle in a portrait taken circa 1967. It was a busy decade for the British rock band: They launched 5 albums together with 1965’s “My Era” and 1967’s “The Who Promote Out.”
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Weapons N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is seen right here trying significantly baby-faced early in his profession, which kicked off within the mid-’80s.
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Bret Michaels and not using a bandana?! Yep! The Poison frontman went with out his now-signature accent whereas performing together with his band in 1988 — the identical yr they launched their hit sophomore album, “Open Up and Say… Ahh!” He was 25 on the time.
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Alice Cooper dropped his shock-rock persona for this portrait taken in 1973, the identical yr his band launched their hit tune “No Extra Mr. Good Man.” He was in his mid-20s on the time.
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Courtney Love shaped the alt-rock band Gap in 1989 and got here to fame as a drive within the grunge scene within the ’90s with albums like “Fairly on the Inside” and “Dwell By way of This.” She’s seen right here together with her bandmates — guitarist Eric Erlandson, late bassist Kristen Pfaff and drummer Patty Schemel — early that decade when she was in her late 20s.
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We would acknowledge the late, nice David Bowie anyplace and at any time! Ziggy Stardust was nonetheless a teen on this portrait from 1964. It will be three extra years earlier than his self-titled debut studio album dropped.
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Billy Idol was about 22 and nonetheless within the band Era X when he posed for this picture in New York Metropolis’s East Village in early 1978. Three years later, the British rocker born William Broad had a giant hit on his palms as a solo artists with the singles “Dancing With Myself” and “White Marriage ceremony.”
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Here is a fast reminder that Jimmy Web page hasn’t all the time had white hair! In 1966 — two years earlier than he based Led Zeppelin — the guitarist rocked a mop of brunette locks throughout a portrait session together with his first band, The Yardbirds, within the Detroit space. He was simply 22 on the time.
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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry posed for a portrait in his mansion in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in September 1979 when he was in his late 20s. Two months later, the band dropped their “Evening within the Ruts” album. Joe solely recorded half of it, although: He left the group earlier that yr amid a feud together with his bandmates. (He in the end returned 5 years later.)
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Bassist Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe was simply 25 on this picture taken at a celebration celebrating the band’s second album, “Shout on the Satan,” being licensed gold in early 1984. Its success established the group as one of many top-selling heavy metallic acts of the ’80s.
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Patti Smith, is that you simply?! The music star is seen right here at 29 in 1976, a yr after she launched her debut album, the punk traditional “Horses.”
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Thom Yorke was simply 25 when he posed for this portrait in 1993, the identical yr his band, Radiohead — which he shaped as a teen at boarding college in Oxford, England — launched their debut album, “Pablo Honey,” that includes the hit single “Creep.”
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Liam Gallagher — who’s seen performing in London in 1994, the yr he turned 22 — fronted the band Oasis from 1991 to 2009. After they broke up and his relationship with bandmate and brother Noel Gallagher imploded, Liam fronted one other rock band, Beady Eye, which got here to an finish in 2014.
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Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger is seen right here in 1970 when he was 25. That very same yr, he launched his debut self-titled solo studio album.
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Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins (entrance) had a complete child face in his mid-20s when he was photographed alongside bandmates Zac Lind, Rick Burch and Tom Linton in 2001 — the yr their iconic album “Bleed American,” which featured the then-ubiquitous hit “The Center,” debuted.
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Chrissie Hynde, who shaped the British American rock group the Pretenders in 1978 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2005 — is seen right here acting on a British TV present in 1980.
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Inexperienced Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was a 22-year-old bleached-blonde babe when this {photograph} was taken in 1994 — the identical yr his band’s Grammy-winning third studio album, “Dookie,” debuted.
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Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers bassist Flea (born Michael Balzary) and frontman Anthony Kiedis had been of their early 20s once they had been photographed earlier than a sold-out present in New York Metropolis in December 1986. They’d shaped their group — which stays probably the most profitable various rock band ever with 14 No. 1 singles and greater than 120 million data bought worldwide — three years earlier. It will be one other 5 years earlier than they scored their first mainstream industrial hit with the 1991 album “Blood Sugar Intercourse Magik.”
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Goo Goo Dolls singer-guitarist John Rzeznik posed exterior CBGB in New York Metropolis in January 1993 when he was 27 — two years earlier than he and bandmates Robby Takac and George Tutuska launched their breakthrough single, “Identify,” and 5 years earlier than their fame skyrocketed with the discharge of the hit observe “Iris.”
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The world misplaced Prince far too quickly, and but the long-lasting artist appeared virtually proof against getting older. He regarded almost the identical performing in New York Metropolis in 1981 as he did when he died at 57 in 2016.
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A baby-faced Shirley Manson regarded able to rock on this portrait from 1996. The Rubbish frontwoman was about 30 on the time. Her band had simply launched their self-titled debut album the earlier yr.
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Matt Bellamy certain has grown up since this portrait from 2000! The Muse frontman was in his early 20s on the time and his band was contemporary off dropping their debut studio album, “Showbiz,” the earlier yr.
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Be nonetheless our hearts! The late, nice Chris Cornell regarded too cute throughout a portrait session in New York Metropolis in late 1989, the yr his band Soundgarden launched their sophomore album, “Louder Than Love.” The singer, who was 25 on the time, later fronted an equally standard group: Audioslave.
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Which rock star was entrance and heart throughout a funeral-themed photoshoot with one among his earliest bands, The Hentchmen, in Detroit in 1998? Jack White, who was in his early 20s on the time. The next yr, he and Meg White launched their debut self-titled studio album as The White Stripes.
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Kim Thayil, who was in his early 30s when this picture was taken at Lollapalooza in 1992, was the lead guitarist and co-founder (alongside the late Chris Cornell) of the long-lasting Seattle rock band Soundgarden.
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Chris Barron — who’s fronted the Spin Medical doctors since 1998 — was in his mid-20s when this portrait was taken in 1993.
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Gordon Gano, the lead singer and guitarist for the Violent Femmes, is seen right here throughout a efficiency in Minneapolis in 1984 when he was 21.
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Siouxsie Sioux famously fronted the rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. The English singer-songwriter is seen right here rocking her signature eye make-up on this 1977 picture taken the yr she turned 20 — a yr after she began the band behind hits like “Kiss Them For Me” and “Peek-a-Boo.”
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Thurston Moore, who’s seen right here in 1996, fronted the influential indie band Sonic Youth. A yr later, he launched his debut solo album, “Psychic Hearts.”
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The Cocteau Twins‘ Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser had been of their early 20s once they posed for this pic in 1983. The Scottish various rock band launched their debut studio album, “Garlands,” the earlier yr.
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Stephen Malkmus fronted the indie rock band Pavement from 1989 till their breakup in 1999. The Los Angeles native is pictured right here acting on stage in 1992 when he was 26.