What started as a friendship grew into a trailblazing collaboration between two women who broke through gender stereotypes to become rap royalty.

As the first Black woman to headline the 2018 music festival, the Grammy winner combined African American history and her iconic music catalog for a two-hour show that changed pop culture.

The "Queen of Soul" took an existing song and infused it with such passion that it has become a universal rallying cry for the civil rights and feminist movements.

The Oscar winner helped the country music superstar overcome his addiction, and they have remained by each other’s sides through the good and the bad.

The couple's fun-loving, self-deprecating humor has kept their relationship as strong today as it was when they met nearly three decades ago.

Throughout their music career, the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" singers' friendship was often so tense that they would stop talking to each other — a pattern that continues to this day.

The rocker debuted his alter-ego in 1972 and retired the character just one year later.

Throughout his career, the Beach Boy has battled schizoaffective disorder and depression.

The pair's relationship had its share of ups and downs, but this iconic Hollywood mother-daughter duo ultimately epitomized mutual love and support.

It was love at first sight for the "Saturday Night Live" star and "Willy Wonka" actor, but their relationship was cut tragically short by illness.

The singer's mental health struggles and battle with addiction led him down a path to create “Fire and Rain.”

The singer-songwriter called her 1971 album "the purest emotional record that I will ever make."

The popular cooking show host and financier met as teenagers, and now they are one of pop culture's cutest and most-enviable couples.

The Grammy winner and the reality star-turned-businesswoman first met in 2003 as friends and nearly a decade later transformed into a Hollywood power couple.

While taking refuge from the business, the musician created the chart-topping song "Like a Rolling Stone."

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Despite a United Nations boycott, the musician went to Johannesburg and recorded with local musicians, laying the foundation for one of his greatest albums.

The fan club leader was enamored with Tejano singer, which lead her to eventually take the 23-year-old’s life on March 31, 1995.

The forbidden love story between the "Queen of Tejano Music" and her guitarist-turned-husband would rule the late singer’s final years.

The famed golfer seemingly had it all until a November 2009 car crash opened the tabloid flood gates and exposed his extramarital affairs.

The WWE champion turned Hollywood leading man is just one of many relatives who used the ring as a springboard to stardom.

The comedian's longtime love has enjoyed her own successful career as a prominent Hollywood producer and best friend to Drew Barrymore.

During the greatest triumphs of his ground-breaking career, the "Black Panther" actor secretly struggled with his deteriorating health.

From her time as a songwriter-for-hire in the 1960s to later solo and collaborative compositions, King has created a wide array of memorable melodies.