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

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

429. In those hilarious Channel 4 adverts for The Ashes, WG Grace is actuually being played by a heavily made-up Phil Anselmo from Pantera.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

430. The first video ever played on MTV was for "Dune Buggy" by Presidents of the United States of America.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

431. The word 'video' was invented by William Shatner in 1992.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

432. In Forbes Magazine's list of the 400 Richest Americans, Prince Po came 137th, mainly due to profits made from his stable of Group 1 winning racehorses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

433. The opening credits to The Sopranos originally featured James Gandolfini dancing to "Nu Flow" by Big Brovaz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

434. Talib Kweli's cousin is Fat Duck restauranter Heston Blumenthal.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

435. When not collaborating with Wendy Richards on 'A Guide To The Phonology of Modern English', Eminem can be found surfing on E-Bay looking to add to his sizeable collection of second-hand Blue Peter badges.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

427. Visionary musician Brian Eno regularly visits internet music sites using the alias "Mr. Snrub".
-- now this one's true (o...) (webmail), July 14th, 2005 11:35 PM.

Oh, stop it you tease.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

435.5) Canadian mystery band Klaatu was actually a pseudonym for a super-secret supergroup merger of members from Mocedades and Boney M.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

436)David Thomas invented the Cleveland Steamer.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

437)Sting is unable to maintain erection for longer than 30 continuous seconds.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

437a. ...but he is able, via yoga, to make love for 6 hours straight, but only if he is the "bottom" and only if a prize winning banana squash in involved.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Supertramp bought all of their songs from a publisher in Australia - and the true author of all that junk remains a mystery.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

439. Lisa Loeb only entered the music industry in order to make enough money to buy a pair of spectacles that weren't second hand. Once her single "Stay" achieved worldwide success, she bought a pair of Armani frames and returned to her job as a librarian in Bent Dick, Colorado.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

440. Bobby Gillespies obsession with dropping vowels was so extreme over the period of XTRMNTR's release that he began to communicate verbally without using vowels. This proved costly. Many reports from this era concern a "tired and emotional" Gillespie wandering around London lost asking confused strangers;
"Whr th fck am ? nd t gt sm fckn drgs w fck 'm n hh fckn' cmdwn n wnt t g hm!!!"

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

441. Despite his claims Brandon Flowers is not Mr Brightside. The honour instead belongs to David Baddiel who won the award in 2002.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

442. Manchester United fans have adapted "Mr Brightside" as a new terrace chant, with the punchline changed to "I'm Norman Whiteside."

Well, I have anyway, and I don't even like Man U.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

443. Manchester United briefly signed Wedding Present singer David Gedge in the early ninties. He now plays for Total Network Solutions depending on touring commitments.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

444. The Von Bondies couldn't pick their own lead singer out of an identity parade after his fisticuffs with Jack White.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

445. Kano's Mmm has to record Last of the Summer Wine for him if he is out when it's on. He thinks the addition of Burt Kwok to the cast was an inspired move that has kept the show relevantin a changing world.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

446. Joey Ramone couldn't cook toast.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Joseph Gorden-Levitt couldn't boil water.

― Alice Munn, Friday, 15 July 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

448. But Richard Hell made a quite nice quiche one day in 1978.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

449. Don't tell anyone but Rivers Cuomo has a "wobbly head".

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

450. During a commercially lean period in the late 1980s, Marianne Faithfull turned to a lucrative career in radio drama and voiceover work, reaching a pinnacle with her performance as "Mrs. Rudd" in the Radio 4 series "King Street Junior". To this day, she remains employed as lip-syncher to Mariella Frostrup, whose own speaking voice contains frequencies unsuitable for broadcast.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 15 July 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

451. Despite their name, The Thompson Twins are not actually twins - they're identical septuplets.

452. Despite his name, Neil Tennant is in fact a notorious slumlord.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link

453. Marc Almond is in fact heterosexual. DJ Mike Read, who managed them briefly, suggested they'd appear more trendy if Marc pretended to be gay. Marc is stuck with the tag now but is considering coming out.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

454. Chali 2na has a chronic fear of laminating.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

455. Michael Jackson's father, Joe, did not beat him. But he did foist "Jumpin' Jive" on an innocent world.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link

456. Michael Bolton, Billy Preston, Will Oldham, Melissa Manchester and Mick Fleetwood have a real chip on their shoulder about Julie London.

― davidsim (davidsim), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

The Rapture began as Gang of Four's attempt to emulate the Monkees. They actually played all the music on "House of Jealous Lovers." By Echoes, the band had taken over the reins.

― mike a, Friday, 15 July 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

458. In a famous contest, Frank Zappa beat Rod Stewart and Alice Cooper in determining who could down the most orange soda.

459. PE's "Welcome to the Terrordome" got its name because the group was such a big fan of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome to the Pleasuredome," the album the S1W's would train and work out to.

460. Otis Redding faked his own death, changing his appearance with plastic surgery. He's actually been recording and performing under the name "R. Kelly."

461. A teenage Danny Elfman, of Oingo Boingo/Tim Burton fame, did the string arrangements on Scott Walker's early albums.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

462. All of Boston's album covers are photographs of real natural phenomena.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

463. Rom-com hunk Paul Bettany provided backing vocals on Silver Bullet's "20 Seconds to Comply"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

464. Busta Rhymes suffers from an extremely rare form of Tourette's Syndrome, making him prone to sudden manic outburts, proclaiming "Kitten, kittens - happy, fuzzy kittens!" and "Sunshinelollipopshappinessflowers!" between vocal takes.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

465. The "DJ" in DJ Otzi actually stands for "dinner jacket"; immaculately-attired Otzi has never owned a record player, but has a garage full of heavily-modified AM clock radios that he uses to create the trademark infrasonic gutpulses that permeate his own recordings.

466. Snap's "The Power" refers to a Swedish card-game in which the objective is to ram a 30ft steel rod through the roof of an electricity substation.

467. If you type "11" into every third cell in column AA of an MS Excel 2000 spreadsheet and then choose Tools>Protect Workbook, your hard disk will make a reasonable fist of the flute riff from Flowered Up's "It's On" before it dies.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

468. More Fire Crew disbanded in 2002 as a mark of respect for the passing of Professor Stanley Unwin.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

469. Christina Aguilera is actually a transexual named Honey Bee. She had an illicit affair with Linda Perry in the 90's and threatened to go public with it unless Perry got her a record deal and wrote some of the songs on her albums.

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Friday, 15 July 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

470. Tangerine Dream recorded over 86 hours of original music for the CBBC series "Maid Marian and her Merry Men". It is yet to see commercial release.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

18. Due to an administrative error, the winner of the 1998 FHM World's Sexiest Woman award was Mr Lif.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005.

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19. Dwight Yoakham has AIDS.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), July 11th, 2005.

That twofer right there is what sent me over the edge, esp. since I was listening to Dwight's newest at the time.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

471. Deeply moved by the plight of the Dutch primary-school children left without heat, light or easy access to pastries for nearly an hour by an administrative error one spring afternoon in 1988, Peter Egan coaxed the rest of the cast of Ever Decreasing Circles into cutting a charity single - a ramshackle cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Maple Sugar Boy" backed by The Dream Academy. Unfortunately, Stanley Lebor was never sufficiently happy with his backing vocals to sanction its release.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

(Damn you, Josh Love and yr xposted quote...)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

472 Ron and Russel Mael are in fact just mirror images of each other. And hollow.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

473 Pop Will Eat Itself are composed of a swarm of south american ants which is why they get through so much jam on tour.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

474. Madonna's infamous conetits were originally purchased to be used as part of a planned traffic safety breakdown towards the end of the video for "Vogue".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

475. Bob Dylan recently announced plans to retire from music at an amazing 432 years of age before returning to his underground lair to box kangaroos until the end of time.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

476. 'We Are The World' was actually sung by the future cast of Buffy. Joss Whedon directed the video and can be seen briefly attempting to separate Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters and Seth Green from Michael Jackson.

― BARMS, Friday, 15 July 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

477. Tina Weymouth is allergic to gravity.

478. Lynsey de Paul's nerve endings are inverted in such a way that she is impervious to pain and changes in ambient temperature but acutely aware of every action of her own internal organs. "Rock Bottom" is about this.

479. Colonel Abrams has a phobia of the Trebuchet font family.

480. David A Stewart and Dave Stewart are patently the same person. Yes, they bloody are.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

481. Peter Andre is still a virgin.

― BARMS, Friday, 15 July 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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