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

695. Jarvis Cocker's first job was shelling peas for the Jolly Green Giant.

698. PJ Harvey is so called because she wore nothing but her pajamas up until the age of 16.

700. The Reverend Horton Heat is actually Jewish.

701. Former Faith No More and Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton lives in the foremer residence of director Roman Polanski and actress Sharron Tate, the sight of the infamous Manson Family slayings. Patton only discovered this after viewing the E! True Hollywood Story about Tate, and goes around acting like he knew about it the whole time.

702. Tom Petty was first approched to be the salesman for what would later become the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. To this day, every time Petty eats a hamburger, he sheds a single tear in lament.

705. Supertramp is an amalgamation of 80's Funk legend Ultimate and out of work late 70s band Filthy Slut. The amalgamated band name did not test well, and they cleaned it up as a result.

706. Lou Reed currently subsists off a diet of heroin and the Stroke's settlement cheques.

707. Sonic Youth have fans.

708. Roger Water's biggest argument with Pink Floyd had never been aboot royalties, but rather that they ordered a sandwich tray with mustard, after he specifically asked them not to, in 1974.

709. Billy Joel stole Piano Man, word for word, from an actual Piano Man, who was allegedly "really on that night." The Pianist's body was found in South Central Miami in 1973, days before the CD was released.

710. John threw a candy bar wrapper to the ground after getting out of his limo December 8, 1980. Moments later, he was shot to death. Instant Karma killed John Lennon.

714. PJ Harvey, like Jamie Lee Curtis, has a XXY genotype. Her name is not actually Polly Jean; the nickname came about from a mishearing of "polygene".

that one doesn't seem so implausible...

719. As of mid-2005, Axl Rose's long-awaited Chinese Democracy album will be a reggaeton record.

726. A strong advocate for legal self-reliance, Bushwick Bill always acts as his own attorney and drafts his own licensing contracts.

727. Chris Martin of Coldplay is frequently mistaken on the street as the main man behind American psych-rockers Kinski.

728. Madlib, MF Doom and Dangermouse all met in a landscape design class at Vassar.

729. Autechre is pronounced "RAW-bee"

730. Every time the NME refers to a musician by his first name and then the name of his band (ie. Richie Manic, Ross Futureheads) they submit an application for official name change with the county registrar.

731. Prussian Blue have asked Momus to produce their next single in the style of shibuya-pop

732. Jad Fair posts on I Love Music under the alias Marissa Marchant. We never him.

733. "Royksopp" run through Babblefish.com translates to "Typesetter"

734. Sly Stone recently left a sales clerk post at the Diesel store to manage the Paul Frank shop in downtown san francisco