From childhood trauma to rock legend: How pain fueled a superstar’s rise

most kids could never imagine.

His father was murdered

An incredible, wide-ranging, powerhouse voice. Hailed as the greatest singer ever. One of the top-selling artists in music history. A Hall of Fame inductee.

A kid from the Midwest who pushed past the strict, closed-in “corn belt” rules he’d been raised under, determined to prove they didn’t define continue reading …