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

1469. When released in 1964 The Beatles' hit song 'Eight Days a Week' was titled literally, as it was not until the 1974 miners' strike that Ted Heath's Conservative government eliminated Smuesday from the British week.

1470. "My Morning Jacket" is the best band name ever

Yay! 2010 revive of my favorite thread ever, just in time for these nugget:

1471. Stephin Merritt is a direct descendent of Lenin.
1472. Alice Cooper and Rod Stewart once made a bet over who could eat the most live goldfish (they tied).
1473. Kevin Shields is remastering the two MBV albums.
1474. will.i.am is currently in the studio with Dirty Projectors (he and Dave Longstreth went to NASA Space Camp together).

1475. A piano technician was summoned to Aretha Franklin's home because her piano sounded muffled. He opened the lid and discovered that the piano's interior was covered with a sound-deadening layer of flourescent orange Cheetos crumbs.

1476. historians report that the song "Caroline No" was sped up, at Murry Wilson's request, to make Brian's voice sound higher and more youthful. in actuality, the sheet music for "Caroline No" called for session bassist Carol Kaye to play the infamous brown note at the beginning of each verse. during a memorable studio session, Carol did just that. after she and the rest of the session musicians had showered, put on new underpants, etc., they were too irritated to run through the song once more. so the engineer just sped up the otherwise flawless recording until it no longer produced the offending frequency.

1477. Coldplay was engaged to play in the kids area of the last Bilderberg conference

1478. Dave Sabo of Skid Row is an in-demand voice artist in his spare time. His most recent movie role is Eleanor the Chipette in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

1479. The keyboard player from Wheatus has a phd in gender studies.

1480. Sebadoh's Eric Gaffney checked himself into Cedars-Sinai in an attempt to combat his addiction to tap water.

1481. Sean Moore of the Manic Street Preachers has a tattoo of Gregg Alexander on his neck.

1482. James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has a tattoo of Graham Alexander on his neck.

1483 Graham Alexander has a tattoo of Sheena Easton on his neck.

1484. Sheena Easton once gave David Nugent a cheese platter.

1485. Bryan MacLean of Love received a producer's credit on the film Where Eagles Dare, after introducing producer Elliott Kastner to his uncle, adventure novelist Alasair MacLean, at a party in 1967. The younger MacLean told Kastner, "You guys should get my uncle to write a story about this castle where me and the guys live."

1486. Young Dro took his stage name from his hero Didier Drogba.

1487. Kate Bush and John Bush, formerly of Anthrax, are second cousins.

1498. Tesla's "Five Man Acoustical Jam" isn't entirely acoustical. Nor was it a jam. And come to think of it, there may have been more than five people involved (including future members of fellow Sacramento band Cake).

1499. Coldplay often plays fetish conventions under the alternate name Cosplay.

1500. The guitar solo on Purple Haze was played by Joe Brown, rather than by Jimi Hendrix, who was incapacitated on the day of recording by a dodgy curry the night before.

1501. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Moby owns the world's largest collection of vintage track suits.

1502. The little dreadlocked kid from the Bombfunk MCs 'Freestyler' video insisted on listening to Carnage Visors on his headphones throughout filming.

1503. Fields Of The Nephilim got the inspiration for their unusual name from guitarist Paul Wright's drinking buddy and local dairy farmer Dave Nephilim.

Due to his sheltered upbringing, Miles Davis always thought that cartoons were real, just filmed with a special camera.

1505. Brian Poole of the Tremeloes was the Official British Champion Milkman in 1975, delivering 204 pints of milk to 50 houses in just nine minutes and 23 seconds, on a route at the United Dairies test circuit near Thetford.

1506. Pop mogul Simon Cowell and Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman have been blood brothers for over twenty years, having bonded on a long-haul flight over a shared enthusiasm for keeping tropical fish. Their friendship is such that Cowell filled in for Coleman on three dates of Killing Joke's 2003 tour, when the latter was suffering from ameobic dysentry. Cowell did such a good job that not even Coleman's bandmates noticed.

1507. The most decorated band in pop history was Jefferson Airplane. Marty Balin, Paul Kantner and Spencer Dryden held Purple Hearts from their service in Vietnam, Jorma Kaukonen was awarded the Medal of Honor after scoring some preemo grass for a then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Grace Slick holds Denmark's Order of the Elephant following a crazy mix-up involving some Rugbrød and an endangered Puffin.

1508. In 1978 David Byrne spent 6 months conducting research into whether animals know what a joke is. His conclusion - that they don't - was discredited in 1985 when Mike Watt succeeded in eliciting a response from a team of trained Armadillos that he'd been playing Richard Pryor videos to in laboratory conditions.

1509. Jonathan Richman has travelled to Iraq three times to train US troops in rapid wall-building in combat situations.

1510. Tori Amos has tiny vestigal bat wings sprouting from the base of her spine.

1511. Purely by coincidence, when they were toddlers, all of the members of These New Puritans appeared as extras in Look Who's Talking Too, though sadly not in the same scene.

This one was all over the internet:

Roxanne Shanté and Warner Bros had a contractual agreement to fund Shante's education for life. After the company was sued by the MC, Warners ended up paying more than $200,000, to finance Shanté's undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College and Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell. Today Shanté" has launched an unconventional therapy practice focusing on urban African-Americans in which she incorporates hip-hop music into her sessions, encouraging her clients to unleash their inner MC and shout out exactly what's on their minds.

Um, "this one" would be #1512

1513. Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor has said he knew exactly what he wanted his band to sound like when, as a small child, he heard Paul McCartney's "Temporary Secretary" on the radio.

1514. Tiger Woods will reportedly skip the Masters this year and allow Alice Cooper to play in his spot. This is technically within the rules at Augusta National, thanks to an obscure and poorly-worded club policy that allows for non-members or non-exempted players to compete on the grounds of the club in the event of "elective family emergencies". The policy has not been enacted since 1954, when Frank Sinatra played in place of Ben Hogan. Sinatra shot an 82-80 in the first two rounds and missed the cut by 18 strokes.

^^^ Classic material

1515. Last year, one of Sting's hirelings lost his job after he misheard an instruction from his boss. Instead of buying 3000 acres of rainforest to prevent beef cattle being grazed on the land, he had 3000 beefburgers from the Rainforest Cafe delivered to the studio where Sting was recording his album of festive music. Sessions were cancelled for ten days to fumigate the studio, at Trudi Styler's insistence.

Johnny's Depp's flamboyant pirate character from Pirate of the Caribbean, despite claims it was based on Keith Richards, was really based on Adam Ant. Depp had seen one of his videos on vh1 classic at 4AM in 2001, and recalls feeling "drunkenly nostalgic and inspired."

that was 1516

1517. The album He Poos Clouds by Canadian indie rock artist Final Fantasy was originally submitted to his national Olympic Committee for use at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games during the biathlon events; however, the organizers turned down the offer. The album's title reflects its history; the Norwegian word for "biathlon" – "skiskyting" (literally "ski shooting") – is sometimes humourously corrupted into "skyskiting", ie "cloudshitting".

1518. The day his Nebula Award-winning novel Babel-17 was published, Samuel R. Delany was playing bass in The Blue Flame under the name Randy Palmer. The guitarist for this group, Jimmy James, was of course Jimi Hendrix. Oddly, neither of them are thought to have influenced each other one damn bit.

1519. For one week in 1984, Mike Tyson was the drummer for Faith No More. Mike Patton reportedly kicked him out of the band because he wanted to be the only Mike in the band. Also Tyson fucked his girlfriend.

1520. Michael Jackson isn't dead.

1521. Lady Gaga originally went by the name Lady GooGoo (a phrase that was also taken from the Queen song) but reluctantly changed her stage name after lawsuits were threatened by the management team of American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. The band and Ms. Gaga have since made amends and become close acquaintances, leading to Goo Goo Dolls lead singer John Rzeznik's appearance as an extra in the video for "Bad Romance".

1522. Adam Ant's "pirate" persona was conceived as a tribute to Keith Richards, whom he met backstage after a Stones concert, snorting lines of ground-to-powder Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal.

1533. In 2014, Rock Band will make its debut as an official Winter Olympics event - the only such sport not involving snow or ice.

1524. In 1993, techno producer/label head Wolfgang Voigt was a driving force behind the "Provisional German Beer Law" that officially replaced the older Beer Purity Laws of 1516. When asked to comment on his role in enacting the new law during a 2008 interview, he said "we design the aesthetic in our music to conform to certain standards of streamlined simplicity. This need not always be true of our beer."

1525. Family Guy's elderly pedophile character was voiced by Rod Stewart until 2007.

1526. Justin Bieber's favourite song of all time is Ned's Atomic Dustbin's "Kill Your Television".

1527. Gucci Mane had a supporting role on "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper"

1528. Dr. Hook was a session band put together to perform songs written by Adrian Belew and Keith Rowe