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

1428. Although Hype Williams is credited, the music video for Busta Rhymes' smash hit "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" was actually ghost-directed by then Williams intern David Gordon Green, who silently filled in while Williams was being treated for a rare case of motor neurons disease.

1429. Every Daft Punk album since Discovery begins with a different vocal sample from southern rapper Silkk the Shocker's No Limit Records debut "Physical Graffiti".

1430. Three of the four members of Interpol worked as speechwriters for Kentucky governor Brereton Jones prior to releasing their debut album. Their most celebrated work, an uplifting speech delivered during a potentially devastating energy shortage was titled "Turn On The Bright Lights".

1431. Mos Def is allergic to metal. When performing live, he uses a special microphone made of whole grain wheat.

1432. Hyped BBC favourites Florence and the Machine recently signed a 10-tour sponsorship deal with Wrights Pies.

1433. Former ILX Controversialist Esteban Buttez owns Australia's largest collection of Sal Solo memorabilia. Nothing by Classix Nouveaux though because he thinks they're shit.

1434. I kissed a girl and received a restraining order.

1435. Michelle Obama and her cousin, Beverly, performed in the backing band in the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense concert.

The movie Gremlins was based loosely on screenwriter Michael Polino's experiences hanging out with the band Lynyrd Skynyrd in the mid-1970s. The Gremlin ringleader Stripe, in particular, was modeled on the antics of Ronnie Van Zant, while the general visual appearance of the Gremlins was modeled on Polino's vision of what the band might have looked like after the fiery plane crash that killed many of the band's members in 1977. At the time of the movie's release, Lynyrd Skynyrd spokespeople and fans called the move tasteless, an opinion that seems to have softened somewhat over time.

that was 1436, btw.

1437. Vampire Weekend is going to have a very long and fruitful career.

Bruce Springsteen admits that most of the material for 2009's "Working On A Dream" was written as he scanned the posts on fmylife.com with his guitar in his lap and his computer on his desk. He'd spend forty-five seconds trying to put an fmylife entry to music and if he thought it worked he'd turn on the tape recorder and save it for later.

^ 1438

1439. The first "promo video" wasn't a video at all! In 1830 Felix Mendelssohn commisioned a series of Magic Lantern slides of his recent holiday in Scotland, to be shown at concert performances of The Hebrides overture when he was too wasted to attend in person.

1440. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" contains a sample of George Formby saying "Eh Oop Missus".

1441. That singer out of Twisted Sister was a bloke. Hairy bollocks and everything.

1442. Before it was a film, a live musical or even an album, Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" was actually a sandwich.

1443. Tim Westwood's dad is actually just a vicar.

1444. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Mrs Dalloway didn't do so well.

1445. Linda Ronstadt's cover of "Nookie" was supposed to be released on September 11, 2001, but was suspiciously canned at the last minute.

If you search #beatlefacts today on Twitter there are some pretty good ones!

1446. Beth Ditto derived her stage name by making an anagram of "hotbed tit."

1447. Formerly popular production duo The Neptunes originally got together as a Chas and Dave tribute act.

1448. Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully molded Garth Brooks.

1449. Garth Brooks (real name Duane Jockstrap) chose his stage name in honour of former Spurs striker and BBC pundit Garth Crooks. Brooks became a fan of Tottenham Hotspur during the year he spent at UCL whilst studying for his degree in Theoretical Physics.

1450. Ringo Starr plays drums on the first Led Zeppelin album; Bernard Purdie played on the rest.

1451. None of Cabaret Voltaire's recorded music has ever been played on any radio station in the world, ever. The only airplay they've ever gotten is the result of their infrequent live simulcast performances transmitted worldwide by satellite and emanating from their secret underground facility in Dresden.

1452. The New York Dolls originally formed as a high-school barbershop quartet; they called themselves The Latin Kings, due to their prowess at classical languages.

1453. What's that Lassie? Young Jeezy's trapped down a well you say?

1454. Ben Ofoedu, vocalist on Phats and Smalls' 1999 classic "Turn Around", is now engaged to TV nightmare Vanessa Feltz, and often spends his time kissing and touching the demented harpy as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

1455. Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist DJ Talent originally DJed under the name DJ Swine Flu.

1456. PJ Harvey and DJ Harvey are brother and sister.

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee's nickname 'T-bomb' refers to his ability to deliver blunt and uncompromising, yet fair, assessments of people and situations

1458. On the original mono recording of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks Van can clearly be heard calling "who wants something from the chipper?" during the instrumental break in "Slim Slow Slider".

1459. The theme tune of BBC1 sitcom Men Behaving Badly was composed and performed by Wynton Marsalis.

1460. Varg Vikernes came up with his former pseudonym Count Grishnackh by combining his favourite musician, Count Basie, with the surname of childhood friend Dave Grishnackh.

Peter Hook (born Josef Hyman Mancewitz in Haifa, Israel) learned to play bass by stringing rubber bands over a bowls of matzah ball soup. His family left Israel in the early 1970s when Hook accepted a job at a Sheffield steel plant.

1462. The Shins were originally called Untitled Wes Anderson Project

1463. In the late 00s, mainstream hiphop has enjoyed an increased popularity in "indie-centric" weblogs due to its lessened reliance on sounding like mid-90s Laibach.

1464. Dylan Kwabena Mills (aka 'Dizzee Rascal') began the 00s as the opening act for English pop group BBMak and filmed a cameo on Lizzee McGuire that to this point (Dec '09) has never aired. At the time he went under the stage name "Dizzney Rascal"

1465. The major problem of the Petrucci Music Library in their quest to freely publish all classical sheet music currently out of copyright is that Paul McCartney claims he is the owner of the likeness of the C clef due to his kinship with a founder of the 15th Century Flemish National Bank.

noah lennox aka 'panda bear' spent 1.5 years in prison for shooting a 12 year old in the face

1466. Dwight Eisenhower invented ska.

1467. Todd Rundgren and Trevor Horn got in a slappyfight once at a producer's conference.

1468. In November of 2009, a Los Angles Superior Court judge threw out a suit brought by Jenny McCarthy, who alleged all the vegetation on her property died in the months following the purchase of the adjacent home by Lemmy Kilmister.

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.