The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)

1364. Before changing the spelling of their name after signing to Atlantic to pursue the lucrative disco market, Chic were known as Sheikh and performed a unique brand of Middle Eastern-flavoured glam rock in full-blown Bedouin Arab attire.

1365. Daniel Johnston was elected Texas state representative for two non-consecutive terms in 1976 and again in 1982. Under his watch, convicted murderer Leo Thorer was allowed back on the streets after serving only 22 years for the brutal 1958 slayings of Texas police officers Bobby Higgins and Lionel Olden. Do we really want Daniel Johnston representing Texas values? Send a message this Tuesday to the liberal justice system that Texas won't tolerate representatives who have proven themselves soft on crime.

1366. Mick Mars of Motley Crue is sole heir to the Long John Silver's restaurant empire, currently valued at slightly over $500,000.

1367. There is the well-known story of the two Norwegian brothers who were inseparable until they got into an argument over the fundamental role of melody in music. They eventually parted ways after a heated dispute left their relationship in shambles. While one brother remained in Norway, doomed to spend the rest of his life trolling internet message boards, the other traveled abroad and became perhaps the most acclaimed and influential musician of the 20th century. And that man's name was Eddie Money.

1364. Before changing the spelling of their name after signing to Atlantic to pursue the lucrative disco market, Chic were known as Sheikh and performed a unique brand of Middle Eastern-flavoured glam rock in full-blown Bedouin Arab attire.

The problem with this one is that it's not one third as funny as the truth, although if they had worn Bedouin attire at the time they called themselves "Allah and the Knife-Wielding Punks", that would have been awesome.

1368. Korn started as a Pylon tribute act.
1369. In 1985 Conrad Schnitzler was elected mayor of Tarzana, California, but declined the honor due to prior commitments.
1370. Blondie's Debbie Harry has worked as an uncredited script doctor on over 70 films, including "Big", "Out of Africa", "The Pelican Brief", and the entire "Police Academy" series.
1371. The Van Halen albums "Women and Children First", "Fair Warning",
and "Diver Down" were originally intended to be the first 3 installments of a 12-part album cycle about the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

1372. Amy Winehouse [censored by the Jewish Conspiracy] in the donkey.

1372. Ace of Base's smash pop-dance hit, The Sign - while commonly misconstrued as having deep semiological undertones - is in fact actually about the Heideggerian concept of Da Sein, as Ulf Ekberg, the mid-90's Swedish pop-anthem powergroup's keyboardist had recently began his doctorate on Martin Heiddeger at the time. The naming of the track The Sign is the fault of record label Arista, who, unfamiliar with Heidegger, heard 'da sein' as 'the sign' as a result of the groups Swedish accents.

William Bennett of Whitehouse used to do this trick in the early 1980s, he would book appointments at private clinics with female doctors and claim to have a strange lump in his groin, he'd then usually coerce the doctor into masturbating him.

Kevin Tomkins, Sutcliffe Jugend, couldn't cook when he lived in London, he used to buy canned foods, ie - beef stew, ravioli, peas, spaghetti bolognese, sweetcorn, tuna, soup etc and throw it all together in one saucepan. He also had all the Iron Man comics.

Did you know - the drummer from Lush who shot himself once wrote a sex manual under the pseudonym

1376. and when the photographs came back from the lab, there was Midge Ure's disembodied face in the background of every single one.

1377. In 1980 Steve Ignorant of Crass was set to file a patent for his Bullshit Detector, but the prototype was destroyed when he accidentally left it switched whilst he was watching Laverne & Shirley.

Gary Grice is an expert mountaineer and guitarist, with a preference for fender telecasters.

David Hasslehoff once belonged to a Druidish cult

Trent Reznor fused the song "Brickhouse" and Acid Rock to create a new genre called Acid House.

Phil Collins' "Easy Lover" was about anal sex

Beyonce's new album was supposed to include a cover of "I Saw Gener Crying in His Sleep."

David Hasslehoff once belonged to a Druidish cult

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:53 (2 days ago) Link

not only this, he's appearing on the next Sunn O))) album

1384. Goodie Mob's Big Gipp is currently studying for the Intermediate Construction Award in Brickwork at Atlanta Technical College. His father, Ted Gipp, has promised him a job on site in the summer providing he passes his CITB-Construction Health & Safety exam this year. Fellow posse member Khujo Goodie is hoping to take A2 Levels and go on to Uni.

18876. Karl Hyde is a protoclone of "Iggy Pop," himself a vampiric clonoform regenerated from the samples that the Fancigus Collatus recovered after the Black Sea massacre of 1699.

1386. Kate Nash suffers from a rare degenerative muscle condition which makes her look and sound like she's fucking twelve.

1387. "Disco Duck" is based on a true story. Oddly, that story is the Nativity.

See also: A Thread for Hilarious RONG Things my Sociology of Pop Music Prof Says

"Ayo Technology" is about 50 Cent's decision to leave the Church of Scientology.

^^^1388.

1389. Nicolas Anelka learned English via repeatedly listening to Tanita Tikaram's 1988 album "Ancient Heart", and has a clause in his Bolton contract that initiates a release clause should Ms Tikaram ever retire from full-time touring.

1390. The so-called "Tapas Nine" actually includes Shovel, the former M People drummer.

1391. Fronting an English band in the 1980s meant that there was a 12% chance your first name was Ian.

1392. Kenney Jones was never the first choice for new drummer in The Who after Keith Moon died. It wasn't until Animal from Muppet Show declined for the fourth time that Pete Townshend finally gave up and asked Jones instead.

Kate Nash changed her name to Nash when she married Graham Nash from CSN&Y.

1394. Drumming for an English band in the 1990s meant there was a 12% chance your first name was Loz.

1395. The deep, erotic sighs that follow the line "Picked up the phone, dropped it on the floor" in Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" were provided by former Leeds United great Johnny Giles.

1396. Arvo Pärt funded his studies in Tallinn by taking part in brutal street fighting rings, eventually earning the nickname "Arvey Dangerous". The 1990s US band Dangerous Harvey derived their name from this.

309.None of the Jackson Five were actually brothers. In fact, Marlon was the only one related to any of the other four.

-- Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:18 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Still love this one

1397. Most of Jack Penate's songs were originally written as part of an effort to score every single MILFHunter.com episode.

1398. In their heyday all three of Bananarama would on request recite the screenplay of Mike Leigh's well loved television play "Nuts In May" verbatim.

748. During her appearance on Desert Island Discs, Zadie Smith chose "Popular" by Nada Surf seven times over, "in case I wear the other copies out".
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

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749. Contrary to its name, "Popular" by Nada Surf was in fact a very unpopular song, and is the only record in history to have achieved negative sales figures.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:38 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
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751. "Popular" by Nada Surf completely rips off the chord sequence from "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear" by the Alan Price Set, and was thus the subject of a 1997 court case.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:45 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Love this run.

Popular Irish lady Enya once broke her arm whilst stage diving at a Tad gig.

1400 Sherman Hemsley sank thousands into designing a room in his house to resemble the Gong track "Flying Teacups."

1401 The Beatles are planning an enormous reunion tour for 2009, with Spragga Benz replacing Lennon, and Tippa Irie standing in for Harrison.

1402. Jay-Z asked Sean Combs to listen to several Spoon albums, in hopes of finding a suitable sample that would get American Gangster some hipster buzz. Combs briefly considered "Was It You?" and "Metal Detektor," but then decided that the entire ouvre of Britt Daniel was simply too "dorky."

1403. On seven seperate occasions, David Lee Roth has unsuccessfully asked a member of the Donnas for a blowjob.

1404. Eighties pop princess Kim Wilde used to babysit for gravelly voiced rock god Antony Hegarty.

1405. Zach Braff originally wrote "Dimmu Borgir will change your life" in his Garden State script, but co-star Natalie Portman was unable to pronounce the band's name.

thought this was good:

1036. Robert Wyatt sprained his ankle; he's just lazy.

-- Øystein (Øystein), Monday, June 12, 2006 8:19 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

if we're reposting...

1037. if you "take out" the letters T, C and P from the word "respect" you are left with R, E, S, and E which stands for Reverse Everything, Satan Exists. The song was recorded during Aretha's brief dalliance with The Church of The Process.

-- Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:47 PM

ok wau @ that

1038. Former band members of The The and Mr. Mister planned a collaboration that they planned to call "The Mister"

1039. members of the the, the cult, the jam, and lisa lisa and the cult jam planned a collaboration they planned to call lisa lisa and the the cult cult jam jam

1040. An Australian band named The The was forced to change its moniker after legal action from the UK act of the same name. The case was termed 'The The The vs The The case' by the press. The Australian band subsequently retitled themselves The Australian The The.

The numbering's gone a bit out of whack, hasn't it? But at a guess, we should now be on...

1209. Despite it being the title of hits for Kylie, Steps and Sonia, Pete Waterman still has no idea what the phrase "Better The Devil You Know" actually means. In an interview in 1998, he claimed it was "one of those Jewish things, you know, like that Ingmar Bergman feller does."