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

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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

482. As is Alanis Morrisette.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 15 July 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

483. Prior to his career in show business, Robert Goulet was known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's most feared interrogator.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

484. Buddy Guy owns the original Batmobile.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

485. Jimmy Page used to go fishing using the fingers of slain hobos as bait. To clear his soul he's been living as a hobo for the past 20 years, traveling from town to town in empty train cars, getting work where he can find it.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

486. Lambchop's Nixon LP was inspired by "The Chairman Dances" section of John Adams' Nixon In China opera; Kurt Wagner, raised in total seclusion by strict agrarian cultists in the 70s, knows nothing of the 37th US President, which is just as well as Adams' opera is about late British magician David.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 July 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

487. My Vitriol are on musical hiatus so Som Wijay-Wardener can fully devote their energies to picketing Granada to do a full and comprehensive re-release of Maid Marian & Her Merry Men on DVD.

488. Som Wijay-Wardener doesn't actually like Maid Marian & Her Merry Men, he's just doing it to impress this girl he knows.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

489. Penny Marshall was the original drummer of the Beatles.

― More like Tony GAYO am I right? Fellas? (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

490. The KLF originally planned on burning three million quid. They decided against it, because, in the words of a close associate, "burning three million quid would have been a crazy thing to do".

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Friday, 15 July 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER!

Best. Screen Name. Ever.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

491. Thanks to more than 30 years of championship drinking, Bernard Sumner is fireproof, waterproof, and able to survive up to 16 days without food or sleep.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

492. The old joke about the ignorant A&R man thinking Skunk Anansie were a duo called 'Skunk and Nancy' actually isn't a joke. The lead guitarist really was called Skunk and the lead singer really was called Nancy. The rest were just session men.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

493. ...and the band 'Deke and Blue' decided to change their name to Deacon Blue after a review of one of their early gigs was incorrectly transcribed by an NME copy taker. They had already changed their name from Dave, Deke and Blue, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich thinking that no-one would believe the co-incidence that they all had the same names as the famous 60s hit paraders.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

494. The anonymous producers behind 90s Euro-poppers 2 Unlimited were, in fact, Detroit techno pioneers Kevin Saunderson and Blake Baxter.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

495. Gordon Oliver was given the stage name Gordon Gano due to his notorious homophobia.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

496. Contrary to popular belief, Dean Martin didn't spend the final ten years of his life in a hermit-like existence due to grief over his son's death. In fact, he was an integral part of the Stock/Aitken/Waterman hit factory, and performed lyric writing duties on tracks as varied as "I Don't Believe In Miracles" by Sinitta and "Can't Shake The Feeling" by Big Fun.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

497. Eagle-eyed cinema buffs may well have noticed that one of the gangs in the final scene of Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle was portrayed by members of the cast of Jackass. However, what you may not have noticed is that the Mexican gang were actually The Monochrome Set in stupid moustaches.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

498. Justin Timberlake's biological mother is inoffensive comedian Rita Rudner. She's been able to drop out of the public spotlight and live a comfortable existence at home because Timberlake provides for her.

499. "American Idol" also-ran Justin Guarini was actually a sophisticated animatronic device built by Cal Tech grad students to sing random notes and lyrics. His success on "Idol" surprised everyone involved.

500. Haruomi Hosono from the group YMO composed the theme to the popular game show "Jeopardy!". Because of this, Alex Trebek has become a huge YMO fan, sometimes shelling out hundreds of dollars for rare imports.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:35 (eighteen years ago) link

30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER!
Best. Screen Name. Ever.

-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...) (webmail), July 15th, 2005 5:33 PM. (Tantrum The Cat) (later) (link)

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/a/ae/Ibiza.jpg

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

So that he wouldn't be mistaken for his dad (director Klaus Kinski), Klaus Kinski of the band Kinski changed his name to Chris Martin.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

502. Hit teen-com "Drake and Josh" is based upon the relationship between Graham Coxon and Alex James.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link

503. Whilst earlier teen-com hit Boy Meets World was based on the childhood memories of Leonard Cohen. The character in the show known as "Topanga" inspired the young Cohen to write Suzanne.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Saturday, 16 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

504. Pete Waterman persuaded Kylie Minogue to record The Locomotion as part of a subtle plan to train Kylie to become a driver of his large collection of historic steam engines. The plan backfired when Kylie revealed she holds a lifelong antipathy towards the Great Western Railway.

505. In 1995, Norman Cook and Paul Heaton joined forces in an attempt to help fellow Housemartin Hugh Whitaker break out of prison. However, Humberside Police heard about the plan, and laid in wait to capture all three immediately after the breakout. A Humberside police officer who considered himself "Beats International's number one fan" tipped Cook off about the ambush, and the escape was cancelled at the last minute.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 16 July 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

506. Souljah Slim is the former social secretary of Sheffield Hallam University's rowing club. "Souljah Slim" was in fact a nickname he picked up after attending a fancy dress pub crawl disguised as Pike from Dad's Army.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

507. In terms of record sales, the most popular band of the past 25 years are Rachel Stamp.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

508. The New Zealand version of Bargain Hunt is hosted by Just Blaze.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

509. Indie-rock website "Pitchfork Media" was set up by the Indian guy from racially abusive 1970s sitcom Mind Your Language

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 July 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"Benji and Joel of Good Charlotte fame once thought they had discovered a new chord in high school. When they showed their music professor, he told them it was a 'C' Chord, which has been around since Beethoven"

I can't take credit for that little nuggest though.

http://groups.msn.com/TheGoodCharlotteCommunity/gcfacts.msnw

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 17 July 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

511. Neve Campbells famous no nudity clause was inspired by her less famous but equally strong love of proto Tatu act The Indigo Girls.

― The Jive Session (elwisty), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

(hahaha, are you watching Scream just now as well?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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