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

1601. Noted film director Werner Herzog only owns one CD and forbids any other music to be played in his presence, it is entitled Gordon by the Bare Naked Ladies

1602. in homage to early wax cylinder technology, which didn't allow duplication, every copy of Tiny Tim's single "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips" contained a unique recording of the song. at the peak of the song's popularity, Tiny would sing it over and over in the recording studio more than 500 times per day, reducing his output only after the pressing plant workers went on strike.

omg

that's the best one so far. and plausible in its way.

thanks! I got the idea from reading George W. Johnson's wiki entry (50 times per day is impressive enough), y'know.

1603. Johnny Burnette's hit song originally went, "You're nine, you're beautiful, and you're mine," but he changed it at the last minute because he thought the internal rhyme was too gauche.

1605. Kate Bush and Andy Partridge have been indulging their love of the road by billing themselves as The Captain and Tennile - Unplugged! and limiting their performances to the hinterlands of Southeast Asia, the outback of Australia and also, the outhouses of Utah.

1606 - Wishing to be more informed to handle copyright issues facing his band, Keith Richards earned a law degree online in 2008.

1607. NASA lied when they said the Voyager Golden Record included everything from Bach to Chuck Berry to Inuit war dances. it was really just a gold-plated copy of Mothership Connection.

1608. The stage name of the artist who recently released the album True Romance is properly pronounced "Charli Ninety-Ten".

1609. While lesser know than Bowie's more successful personas such as Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke, Sass-Talkin' Grandma remains one of Bowie's most beloved characters. Created during his Vics 44-induced lost weekend w/Ruth Buzzy in Brandson, MO, Grandma was known for her southern drawl and witty catchphrases. Bowies' follow-up, Mittens - the lovable hobo, was met with mixed reviews.

1610. bob dylan has been known to post to popular internet messageboard ilxor.com under the alias "waterface"

1611. John Mayer got his start in the New Bohemians

1612. The original title for Queen's 1977 album track, 'Get Down, Make Love', was originally 'Get Down, Make Loaves', and featured a different set of lyrics with a bread making theme to them. Brian May and John Deacon were apparently enthused by the original composition, but Roger Taylor decried the song as being a little "naff", leading Freddie Mercury to rewrite the lyrics based on a more universal, sexual theme. "We battled with Rog for ages over that one," recalls poodle-haired guitarist May, "we argued that it was perfectly acceptable for him to write songs about being in love with his car, but yet Fred writes this lovely, domesticated thing - quite a rarity for him - and suddenly there's a lot of protest. Warburtons even took an interest at one point, so we lost a lot of money in potential advertising income. Fred was sneaky though, and if you listen closely to the track, he is in fact singing 'loave' instead of 'love' at some points in the track as a bit of a fuck you to Rog."

1613. Bad Brains won Best Punk/Hardcore Video at the first Video Music Awards, an honor they then bragged about in the song "Attitude" ("Hey, we got that VMA!")

1614. Kitty Pryde is David Tibet's biological daughter.

1615. Ted Nugent's family invented nougat, which is why he changed his last name. He wanted to succeed on his own merits.
1616. Thom Yorke is classically trained in tuba.
1617. Iggy Pop has an Etsy shop sideline that specializes in knit yarn cupcakes.

1618. Britt Daniel adopted his stage name after a chance meeting with a young Daniel Radcliffe at a Harry Potter convention.
1619. Tom Waits honed his craft on the kibbutz circuit.
1620. Thomas Edison invented rap.

1621. Morrissey is really seriously ill

1622. Sinead O'Connor first shaved her head prior to a casting call by the producers of the fifth film in the Star Trek franchise to replace Persis Khambatta as Ilia. O'Connor won the role and was featured prominently in the film and in all subsequent Star Trek films based around the cast of the original series. O'Connor left the music industry after her popular character was spun off into her own series.

1623. The so-called "demon" make-up that Gene Simmons dons is actually his real face. The other guys in Kiss all wear make-up to help buoy his crippling low self-esteem.

1624. The Scott Walker featured on the upcoming SunnO))) collaboration is not *that* Scott Walker, and is in fact a financial adviser from Swindon who shares the same name.

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that was 1625.

1626. Soundgarden's Chris Cornell dated TV mainstay Oprah Winfrey briefly in the spring of 1993 after meeting her backstage at an awards show. The relationship was reportedly tempestuous, but the straw that broke the camel's back came when Cornell sang her an acapella version of a new song he was workshopping. The song, which eventually became the #1 smash "Black Hole Sun," was later released on their hit album "Superunknown."

"The moment I heard those strangled vocals," Winfrey allegedly told a close confidant, "I knew that he couldn't be the One. He was talking about 'snakes of disgrace' or something... It was weird and I just had to leave."

1627. Olivia Newton-John originally wrote "Hopelessly Devoted To You" as the official AmWay theme song during her brief association with the company. After her messy departure, she hastily remade the song into the Charmin toilet tissue jingle we recognize today.

1628. Blurred Lines was originally written as a jingle for the American Optometric Association, as an encouragement to people to check their prescription. Thicke's manager heard the jingle when collected a new pair of sunglasses, and realised that with some slight lyrical changes, it could be a summer breakout hit, and paid the jinglewriters $200 for use of the song.

Many of the lyrics for Haddaway's "What Is Love" were lifted from a collection of letters written by Immanuel Kant to his favourite mistress. However, the "baby don't hurt me" line was Haddaway's personal creation, which he insisted on leaving in the song despite protests from his record company.

^^ 1629

1630. I read that the lyrics actually date to the year 1629.

1631. Jimmy Osmond murdered thirteen fans at a 1973 Hong Kong concert when the then 10-year-old Osmond wildly fired a .45 from the stage. Osmond fled the country immediately thereafter and was never formally charged with the murders. His infamous 1993 comeback album, I Killed Thirteen People, went triple platinum in the US (but only double platinum in Hong Kong).

1632. Beck Hansen is estranged from his birth family as a result of his choice of career. Beck was born into the Hansen crabfishing dynasty, starts of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, the younger brother of Sig, Edgar and Norman, who work aboard the Northwestern. It was expected he would join the crew as a deckhand, but after one trip – during which the Northwestern tradition of forcing greenhorns to bite the head off a raw herring caused a violent allergic reaction that laid him up for the whole voyage – Beck fled Alaska for LA to become a singer. His family disowned him, with Sig telling his younger brother: "You're a loser, baby. And I'm going to kill you."

1633. Lil' Kim recently set a new world record in the men's marathon, clocking in at 2:02:57. Her attempt at doing so incognito, under the alter ego of "Dennis Kimetto" from Kenya, failed due to the transparency of the pseudonym: she used her middle name Denise for the forename, while "Kimetto" is obviously just a masculinized Italian translation of "Lil' Kim".

1634. Jonathan Richman disowned his son Adam partway through the first series of Man Versus Food, not because of the obscenity of the show's premise, but because Adam refused to feature the Richman family fish restaurant – specialty: the CLT, or cod, lettuce and tomato sandwich – in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

1635. Once it was clear that their music career was on the wane, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson opted to become surgically reconjoined.

1636. Bobby Vee has been mentioned in more than 300 Grammy acceptance speeches, making him the most thanked person in Grammy history. Bobby Bare poked fun at this phenomenon in his Shel Silverstein-penned country hit "God, Mom, and Bobby Vee". Vee is reportedly "baffled and amazed" by the massive outpouring of gratitude from musicians he has never met.

1637. The Beach Boys still receive over a hundred letter per year from fans who would like them to know the names of their favorite vegetables. the most popular responses are "potato" (27%), "corn" (21%), "carrot" (17%) "marijuana haha" (11%), and "PHIL SPECTOR IS WATCHING YOU SLEEP" (6%). Brian Wilson submitted the results to the FDA in 2004, but they dismissed the data as "trivial and unscientific".

1621. Morrissey is really seriously ill

― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 20:01 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oops.

you killed him!

1638. On March 15, 2011, unbeknownst to even the members thereof, the band Life Without Buildings accidentally reunited at the open mic night of a pub in Giffnock. Will Bradley absentmindedly drummed his fingers on a table two away from the booth wherein Sue Tompkins recited a draft of poetry for a friend's advice, while Chris Evans had fried bass with chips at the bar and Robert Johnson -- who now wears a fake mustache to keep paparazzi at bay -- performed a scorching rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" onstage. When asked of this historic moment in a rare interview in 2014, Evans replied "I think I remember the fish."

^actual lol

1639. Hank Williams, Jr. began sporting his trademark beard, sunglasses, and cowboy hat in order to obscure the extensive facial injuries he received when Waylon Jennings threw a drawer full of kitchen knives at his head. During his recovery, Williams wrote the song "Waylon, I Apologize, And Your Pork Chops Were Splendid", which later became the theme for Monday Night Football.

1640. The stage name "Lorde" is a sly reference to the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Long Range Air Defense (LORAD) program. Ella Yelich-O'Connor is apparently unaware of her function as a recruiter/propagandist/mind control agent for the New Zealand armed forces.

1641. Quincy Jones sold his soul to the devil and partakes in diabolical, ritualistic sex. That's why he looks so young.

1642. Bruno Mars is actually two different people duct-taped together.

1643. If you run the Carter Family's 'Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow' through a spectrogram, you get a ghost:

http://i.imgur.com/CWrULmo.jpg

spectogram analysis did not exist when the song was recorded in 1927, and nobody knows how the Carters encoded this hidden message without the aid of computer technology.

1644. The song "Allentown" was written by Billy Joel as parody of Bruce Springsteen. Joel accused Springsteen of mimicking him with Springsteen's smash hit "Hungry Heart."

1645. XTC Bassist Colin Moulding shares a small cul-de-sac in rural England with Iron Maiden crazy-man Bruce Dickinson. They once had a minor land dispute but have since resolved it.

1646. Arthur Lee has been covered more times than any other American artist with the exception of Elvis Presley.

1647. Mama Cass's remains were accidentally baked into a shepherd's pie.