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Nightline Playlist: Rob Thomas

For Rob Thomas, the lead singer of the rock group Matchbox Twenty, life before his successful music career was difficult. Born on a U.S. Army base in Landstuhl, Germany, Thomas was shuttled back and forth between his mom's home in Florida and his grandmother's in South Carolina. Thomas' already tumultuous home life only became more so when he dropped out of high school at the age of 17. Thomas spent three years homeless, drifting from place to place with only one constant in his life:...Full Story
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