GQ Magazine takes a special month long look at the legends and those on the front step who have dredge through the music industry and the rock and roll lifestyle that has captured many to their deaths.
The celebration starts with number one world rapper Eminem and rock and roll icon Keith Richards and will also feature many other such acts such as Jack White, Debbie Harry and Erykah Badu exclusively on gq.com
"I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records. That was the only real goal in my life, ever, but since that happened so quickly, like a laser beam...I think the next goal was not to become one-hit wonders. I mean, after that, no real goal, except to sort of keep on going. I mean, what does an entertainer do, basically? You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good. Turn them on."
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He's a little hazy about that time, when he was taking, by his own account, somewhere between sixty and ninety pills a day, including Valium, Vicodin, Ambien, and Seroquel (used to treat schizophrenia). "Ambien," he says, "ate a hole through my brain." He thinks he went to rehab in 2005, but don't hold him to that. Like I said, it's a little hazy.
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