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

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948. The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" was not actually about heroin, but rather was written by Hugh Cornwell as an homage to Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan. Cornwell became obsessed with Grogan when both the Stranglers and Altered Images appeared on the same episode of Top of the Pops in early 1980.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

949. The international B'nai Brith organization once denounced Elvis Costello as a "self-hating Jew" who has never acknowldged his Jewishness.

950. The common picnic table was invented by a drugged and drunken Hank Williams, Sr. out of necessity, after his wife once locked him out of the house just before dinnertime.

951. #s 100, #200, #300 etc. on this thread are all in fact true.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

952. Jandek is so called because he once "decked" Jan Leeming in a nightclub brawl.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

953. Bono has the link to this list in his Favourite Places, and checks it every day. Every time he sees it, he cries a little.

― Melissa Berrill (whateverkiddo), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

954. Dana severed all contact with the music industry on September 17th this year, symbolically marking the occasion by placing a bet of €100 on Nadine Coyle being the first member of Girls Aloud to leave the group, at odds of 6-1.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 25 December 2005 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

955. The most powerful man in the music industry is Bunny Wailer.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

956. 'Chinese Democracy' will not be an album. Axl Rose is set up in Manchuria, individually trying to spread democratic rights and individual freedoms in China since 1996. He's doing this because he was told that Perry Farrel successfully democratized the Ukraine, which in fact is, untrue.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

957. In his youth, Elvis Costello successfully held up a convenience store with a broken plastic comb.

― ohmyface (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

958. Ellen DeGeneres is Tom Petty's twin sister.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

959. Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt is the adopted son of actors Henry and (the late)Hoot Gibson, who were Hollywood's first married gay couple. They also invented the electric guitar.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

960. Rapper NAS got his stage name from the David Bowie lyric "He was the Nas, with god-given ass". His real name is Thelonius Fogerty.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

961. Those Reebok adverts where Jay-Z says "I got my MBA from the Marcy Projects" are a total lie. He actually graduated with a 2.1 in drama therapy from Herriot-Watt University.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

962. In March 2005, The Source magazine declared Leytonstone High Road Britain's "Most Hip Hop Train Station", narrowly beating Goodmayes and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

963. Andy McCluskey often edits posts from posters he doesn't like to include the "Goatse" image on the OMD website forum.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

964. The anus in the "Goatse" image actually belongs to Spike from late 90s boyband 911.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

965. I am going to murder the Mini Pop Kids. This is not a joke.

― Lazy Guy, Monday, 16 January 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

966. Punk was accidentally invented by a sufferer of tourette's syndrome, who is now morbidly embarrassed by what he started

― Dr X'O Skeleton, Monday, 16 January 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

The walrus was Ringo

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

968. Mark E Smith was actually born Marcus Quentin de L'Isle Adam, the son and heir of a merchant banking family in Weybridge, and was educated at Lancing College and Harrow. Aged 16 he ran away to Lancashire, where he fabricated a false identity.

― that's the triple truth ruth, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

969. While Glen Campbell's stint as a Beach Boy in the mid-'60s is well-known, less publicized was his brief tenure as touring vocalist for Sunn 0))) for several dates in 2004, when vocalists Wrest and Malefic were simultaneously stricken with bronchitis. Sunn 0))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley expressed interest in keeping Campbell on as a regular vocalist when the tour ended, but the rest of the band resisted the move on the grounds that Campbell's bellows were "too throaty" to fit in the context of the songs. As a gesture of goodwill, they are currently recording an album of Campbell covers, tenatively titled "By the Time I Get to Phoenix: the Songs of Glen Campbell."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

970. Every single Four Tops hit was exactly the same.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

971. Einsturzende Neubauten's song "Abfackeln!" formed the basis for Britney Spears' hit "Toxic". Spears invited Blixa Bargeld to help remix the track, but he politely declined.

― Col Tom Blue, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link

972. Professor Longhair, Mad Professor and Large Professor did a brief tour in 1993 as "The Three Tenureds"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link

973. Mama Cass died by choking on a ham sandwich.

974. Keith Relf died by playing the electric guitar in the bathtub and subsequently electrocuting himself.

― musically (musically), Sunday, 29 January 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link

975. Simply Red are actually rather purple.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

976. Nobody has ANY idea as to singer Johnny Nash's current whereabouts.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Macy Gray has long suffered from a mild case of elefantitis. She has recieved many accolades for her charity work in helping find a cure for the dreadful disease.

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 30 January 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

978. Prince's favorite color is orange.

― EngleDinckFanClubPrez, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

979. The lyric "Two multiplied by ten plus one / Romeo done" from So Solid Crew's smash hit single "21 Seconds" marks the first ever time in UK chart history that a song had contained a piece of correct mathematics. The closest anyone had gotten to factual numercial accuracy before was when in his hit "War Baby", Tom Robinson claimed that the square root of 325 was 15.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, fake trivia thread. how i've missed you. happy valentine's day, love.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

980. The song 'Lone Ranger' by Quantum Leap contains the maori placename "Taumatawhakatangi
hangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu"

which, when translated, means "20 years from now this place will be crawling with Lord of the Rings obsessives"

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

981. Lennon and McCartney wrote all their own songs.

― whatever (boglogger), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Authechre were the brains behind Jive Bunny and the Megamixers.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

983. Daniel Miller hasn't done any actual work at Mute since mid-2002, instead spending his time looking at porn and running a "worked" MMA federation on the company's dollar. Workers within this illicit second venture have expressed frustration at Miller's haphazard booking style and insistence on using Fad Gadget songs for all entrance music.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

984. KT Tunstall's rider consists of a large pot of Marmite.

― whatever (boglogger), Saturday, 18 February 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

985. Fans of the Strokes can be deciphered by taste.

― Lazy Guy, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

986. Will Oldham's beard is on loan from Terry Riley's Big House of Beards in Berkley.

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand based their sound on 'Back Off Boogaloo' by Ringo Starr,

― Peter Griffiths (young sensation gruppe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Bob Marley was Welsh

― young sensation gruppe (young sensation gruppe), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

989. Instead of lodging an appeal against his Austrian imprisonment for Holocaust denial, David Irving instead plans to collaborate on a cover of Repubblica's "Drop Dead Gorgeous" with Pendulum, in the belief that this will increase his popularity with the public.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

990. Popular gay scat fetish act the "Hot Lunch" was an integral part of early Tallulah Gosh gigs.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

991. Yellowcard are so called because frontman Ryan Key received a temporary "yellow card" on ILM in 2002 for accusing Cassius of being "prentious, and probably gay".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

992. Cassius are officially the most heterosexual act to have ever had a UK top 40 single.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

993. there's no business like show business

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

994. Since December 13th 2005, Alan Donohoe, lead singer of the Rakes, has been sat in front of his PC surviving only on a diet of sour cream and chive Pringles, so he can be sure of posting the 1000th fact to this thread. Industry insiders believe it will make reference to either the Young Rascals or Az.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

995. Late news: There is one business like show business.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

996. Johnny Cash supplemented his income by writing a highly successful series of physiotherapy textbooks under the unconvincing pseudonym Joan E. Cash.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

997. Johnny Cash was only invited to become a member of The Highwaymen at a late stage, when a chest infection meant that Sade wouldn't be able to take lead vocal duties.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

998. After replacing Gareth in 1987, Miles Hunt's reign in the Cockney Rhyming Slang dictionary is coming under threat from James Blunt. He was hoping to make it to 20 years and has only increased activity with Wonderstuff in order to keep his public profile high enough and remain in the dictionary

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

After the singer from Modern Romance propositioned each member of Bananarama in turn backstage on TOTP in 1985, the Bananas kidnapped him, shaved his head, made him drink bleach, castrated him and sewed his member into his mouth.

― riotgrrrrrl, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

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