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

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.

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.