But Offstage, Things Were Falling Apart...
Laugh if you want, but without VH1’s Behind the Music, I never would’ve known that Def Leppard used to go underneath the stage in the middle of huge stadium concerts to get blowjobs from mother-daughter duos or that Rick Allen’s first words upon being discovered by a farmer after losing his arm in a car crash was, “Help me. I’m a rock star.” I wouldn’t have known those things—or a million other incredibly useless rocktoids that take up space in my brain that might otherwise be used by rocket science and various other subjects that can actually get you a job. Anyway, the point is, VH1 is bringing back Behind the Music (!), and finally doing right by me and so many other people who have been lost—adrift in a sea of tabloid media that pale in comparison to the mother of all scientific studies of The Rise and Fall of the Rock Star—since the show ended in 2006. Now if only those witholding VH1 execs would bring back Pop-Up Video!
Reuters has the whole beautiful story.