10 useless BUT interesting pieces of music trivia
October 18th 2010 23:32
They'll either be impressed with your eclectic and eccentric encylopadic knowledge or simply feel sorry for you - it's all in the delivery.
1) Elvis won three Grammy Awards, but all of them were for his gospel music. The fact that The King of Rock-n-Roll never won an Grammy Award for his rock music is unbelievable.
2) To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
3) While video killed the radio star by the Buggles holds the mantle of being the first pop video played on MTV - the first widely accepted pop video produced for televison was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
4) Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by Clint Eastwood.
5) The week after Michael Jackson died he had thirteen top 40 Hits in the charts (the chart w/e 11th July 2009), he held positions 2, 10, 12, 13, 19, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40 with "Man In The Mirror", "Billie Jean", "Thriller", "Smooth Criminal", "Beat It", "Black Or White", "Dirty Diana", "They Don't Care About Us", "Earth Song", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "You Are Not Alone", "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", and "Bad".
6) Sheryl Crow started her singing career as a backup singer on Michael Jackson's Bad tour; also she was a backup singer on tours for George Harrison, Joe Cocker, and Rod Stewart before starting her solo career.
7) Billy Joel played piano on The Shangri-Las' "Leader Of The Pack" (1964) .
8) You can sing the chorus of the Beach Boys "Surfing USA" along with Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen".
9) The band Wild Cherry, who had a number one disco hit with "Play That Funky Music" in 1976, took their name from a box of cough drops.
10) The Animals 1964 single 'House Of The Rising Sun' was the first Number 1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes.
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Comment by Sim1
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Did you know Lynyrd Skynyrd named themselves after their teacher Leonard Skinner?
And Led Zeppelin were thus named because someone told them their music would go down like a lead zeppelin?
Ok, I'll stop now....