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Musical Facts and Lore
I know there's all kinds of outlandish stories concerning the music industry and the artists involved, so lets hear what strange facts or stories you've come to know in your musical journey that others may not be aware of. Keeping things to the factual with sources is preferred, but if there's a factoid that's hard to find or just impossible to prove, post it up and we'll see if it can be debunked or not.
I'll start with an example: Les Paul was Steve Miller's Godfather |
Here are two stories that are fairly well known but they're both so odd and involve two of the biggest names in popular music, so I can't resist mentioning them...
The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke The Bizarre Story of What Happened to Gram Parsons Body After He Died |
There were all those rumors that the famous popstar Michael Jackson was into kids, like sexually... Have those ever been debunked?
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There was the rumor that Mama Cass Elliot died from choking on a ham sandwich (Not true incidentally but was carried by the papers initially)
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Kurt Clobaney had a puppy called Melvin who made sub baritone barks
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Google Images exists because of that green Jennifer Lopez dress from ...
https://www.thenationalnews.com/life...-2000-1.852645 |
Little Richard's Backup Singers Became More Famous Than Him....James Brown and Jimi Hendrix.
amongst other facts.. https://gulfnews.com/photos/entertai...325827?slide=6 |
Some known, and not so well known Facts and Lore:
Lore: The Beatles were the greatest Rock n Roll band ever. Fact: The Rolling Stones are the greatest Rock n Roll band ever. Lore: “Alice bites head off a chicken and drinks the blood.” Fact: It was evolution that doomed the chicken that fateful day. Someone threw a chicken on stage and Alice Cooper not knowing it was fight-impared through years of evolution threw the bird back into the crowd and they ripped it asunder. Lore: Bear provided acid for the Grateful Dead. Fact: It wasn't some wild bear loose in a forest that cooked the LSD, but a wild cat named Owsley Stanley. Lore: There was the rumor that Mama Cass Elliot died from choking on a ham sandwich. Fact: They never could prove who choked Mama Cass while she was standing on a ham sandwich. Lore: He was Data's brother. Fact: Lore was a bit of a jerk. |
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Here's another one about a member of Van Halen...
David Lee Roth the EMT: A Rockstar Turned Lifesaver |
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And choosing to do it in NYC of all places, |
big fuss, but I had no idea of John/Paul cursing...the F word |
https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-conte...-bands-8-1.jpg
HAVE YOU HEARD OF A MUSIC FESTIVAL CALLED ‘FESTIVAL OF THE F*** BANDS’? IT WAS HELD IN 2008 IN F***ING, AUSTRIA. AMONG BANDS THAT PARTICIPATED WERE F***ED UP, HOLY F*** AND F*** BUTTONS. https://theawesomedaily.com/20-inter...you-didnt-know |
WHEN RECORDING THE FOO FIGHTERS FIRST ALBUM, DAVE GROHL WAS THE ONLY BAND MEMBER, THE TALENTED MUSICIAN WROTE AND RECORDED ALL THE VOCALS, THE BASS AND GUITARS AND EVEN DRUMS.
https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-conte...bands-15-1.jpg |
Freddie Mercury's famous overbite was the result of him having four extra teeth in his upper jaw.
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...t-quality=auto The extra teeth in Freddie's mouth pushed his front ones forward, giving him his signature overbite. But he never got them removed because he feared the surgery would affect his voice and vocal range. |
Speaking of Freddie Mercury...
When Freddie Mercury took Princess Diana to a gay bar without her being recognized |
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https://i.ibb.co/989tq7z/images.jpg he just swims about and well the femmes are safe, naturally https://i.ibb.co/BB9pfkM/girls-couch-joke.jpg :crazy::crazy: |
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Jónsi, the lead singer in Sigur Rós, once forgot the lyrics while performing with the band in France. He improvised and kept on singing in Icelandic “Oh sh*t, I forgot the lyrics, but that’s o.k. because I’m in France where no one understands me.
When John Lennon was asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world he replied “In the world? He`s not even the best drummer in The Beatles! |
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Disney originally wanted ABBA to do the music for The Lion King, but ABBA wasn’t available, so they went with Elton John. In 2000, ABBA turned down $1 billion to do a 100 re-union tour. Before ABBA made it big, they promised to hold a concert for their municipality in exchange for being allowed to rehearse in the cafeteria of a local school, but so far they haven’t held one and are yet to fulfill their promise. ABBA’s costumes were colourful and elaborate specifically to get around Swedish tax law. If the costumes couldn’t be worn outside a performance, they could be considered tax deductible. |
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Sorry, Dianne, but, contrary to rumor, he never would have said that. He was way too fond of Ringo to have said something like that. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jo...-best-drummer/ |
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The Bigger Picture with quotes can be that.. stuff is said but has a joke meaning to it rubber soul.... Think the rumours are always going to be for anybody in the lime light... If my quotes were picked up in the flesh and put out there... I would have been stoned to death a million times over...:laughing: |
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Roger Daltrey owns a trout farm with a taproom...
Roger Daltrey's Burwash trout farm granted licence for brewery taproom :beer: |
Venom bassist/vocalist, Cronos (Conrad Lant) punched out Tom Araya of Slayer on a tour bus in Canada during the Venom/Slayer/Exodus tour in 1985.
Kerry once told me that Tom Araya got hammered on this tour and pissed on your head while you were asleep. And then you punched him out. Yeah, that was just one of those unfortunate situations that happen on tour. Me and Tom are great friends. But he was drunk—we were all drunk, really—and I just made him understand that those sorts of things are unacceptable. [Laughs] I was sitting in the back of the bus, and he came back there with his dick out. When I turned around and looked, there were some wet bits in me hair. I thought he trickled some piss into me hair, so I just stood up and knocked him out. Where I come from, you don’t piss on people, you know? [Laughs] But we shook hands afterwards, and it was not a problem. The mark of a man is knowing when you ****ed up and then apologizing for it. You shake hands and you move on. When it happened, everyone thought Slayer were gonna get kicked off the tour, but there was no way in hell. If he’d been a dick, then yeah. But he manned up and apologized, so we moved on. Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson apparently beat the sh*t out of Charles Manson at Wilson's house during a party in the Pacific Palisades before the infamous Manson Family murders occurred. One day, according to songwriter Van **** Parks, Manson approached Wilson with a single bullet in his hand. "What's this?" Wilson asked. "It's a bullet," Manson reportedly replied. "Every time you look at it, I want you to think how nice it is your kids are still safe." The intimidation ploy didn't work; Parks says Wilson proceeded to "beat the living s---" out of Manson, reducing him to tears "in front of a lot of hip people." |
Alice Cooper is an avid golfer and credits the sport to "saving him from his demons.
Today, Cooper tries to play at least 36 holes a day and has released a book called Golf Monster: My 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...t-quality=auto |
Taylor actually locked himself in a cupboard until the rest of Queen agreed to have his song on the B side of A Night at the Opera.
Taylor was extremely fond of "I'm in Love With My Car" and it remains the only song in Queen's history to be written entirely by him. |
Understandable. IILWMC is a highlight on the Queen Rock Montreal live footage. For me anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmvsy-cGBpg |
Bastille's bassist, Will Farquarson, is a qualified pilot.
Yep, Farquarson earned his flying stripes in March 2018 https://i.ibb.co/t3JwMYL/pilot.jpg |
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None of the Beatles could read or write sheet music.
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...t-quality=auto Paul McCartney admitted this during an interview and said that he doesn't see music as "dots on a page" but rather "something in my head that goes on''. And the whole band watched George Harrison lose his virginity and cheered when he finished. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...t-quality=auto This sounds weird but basically they all shared a room while touring in Hamburg, Germany. When George Harrison brought a girl back, he did the dirty underneath the covers while the rest of them were in bunk beds in the room |
This is 2 songs melded together. Paul wrote the middle part (woke up,fell out of bed) and John the rest. Both songs were incomplete and both artists had no idea how to finish them. So they put them together and created one of the greatest songs ever.
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Jeff's version is a beautiful tribute to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUWvKDf3g5Y I had the pleasure of seeing him do it live. It was transcendent. |
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