These days, music biopics are nearly as commonplace on the big screen as summer action flicks. That was hardly the case four decades ago when Gary Busey delivered a career-defining role as the titular ...

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In April 1959, a pair of black, horn-rimmed eyeglasses was found in an Iowa cornfield. Plucked from the dirt during preparation for planting and given to law enforcement, the mangled specs were sealed ...