This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

was going to suggest that nimoy shouldn't have bothered, but i liked the band idaho

also in Nimoy's unit: architect Frank Gehry

The scenes where Dan takes his son to a football match were filmed at Selhurst Park, the ground of Crystal Palace in a 1–1 draw against Birmingham City on 6 February 1999.

As of 2015, John Bahler lives in Branson, Missouri, where he runs Portraits by Bähler and conducts the Lawrence Welk orchestra. His wife, Janet Lennon, still appears at the Welk resorts. In early 2010, Bahler served as musical director for a PBS Marvin Hamlisch special.

The mounted fish turns its head towards a person, wiggles its tail on the trophy plaque, and sings kitschy cover songs, such as "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin; and "Take Me To The River" by Al Green. Green claims he received more royalties from Big Mouth Billy Bass than from any other recordings of the song.

Please no one tell David Byrne this

he was interested in hopalong cassidy films

That ^ amused me because I could not tell at first whether we were talking about David Byrne or Arnold Schoenberg.

Pretty sure they were both interested in Hopalong Cassidy films

From O.C. Smith’s bio:

After his discharge in July 1955, Smith went into jazz music to pay the bills.

One more time for the people in the back:

Smith went into jazz music to pay the bills.

It was a different time.

How do you make a million dollars in jazz? Start with two million!

It's like that thing where a musician sat down to calculate how much money they lost while not gigging due to the pandemic, and it turns out they saved $237.

Never gets old.

Marcus was born Greil Gerstley in San Francisco, California, the only son of Greil Gerstley and Eleanor Gerstley (née Hyman), a Jewish woman.[2]

... and later...

His wife is Jennelle Marcus (née Berstein), a Jewish woman.[2]

On 5 May 1974,[6] he died when he crashed his MGB sports car on a roundabout in Chepstow,[7] following a Wurzels concert. Cutler is buried in the graveyard of Christ Church, Nailsea.[4][8]

A bronze statue of Cutler was installed outside the Royal Oak pub in Nailsea in October 2016.[9] In June 2020, the statue was defaced by the addition of googly eyes, however, these were quickly removed.[10]

Marcus was born Greil Gerstley in San Francisco, California, the only son of Greil Gerstley and Eleanor Gerstley (née Hyman), a Jewish woman.

Why Joey Ramone, a Jewish man?

Same last name.

Pretty common name.

No need to be a Dick about it.

Though Ellington took piano lessons, he was more interested in baseball. "President Roosevelt (Theodore) would come on his horse sometimes, and stop and watch us play", he recalled.[12] Ellington went to Armstrong Technical High School in Washington, D.C. His first job was selling peanuts at Washington Senators baseball games.

I think of Ellington as someone "old" but more or less of the modern era, died not that many years before I was born, so it was really striking to me to imagine him as a child playing baseball with TEDDY Roosevelt watching him FROM HORSEBACK. Not to mention that it was a time when a president would just ride out on horseback to watch some kids play ball.

Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied "Yes, I was a cop in a feature film." This led to his being cast in Miami Vice.

Ok, that's hilarious when you see the article it's from.

As of October 2013, MetroBuses in Greater St. Louis do not accept $2 bills.

From the Jimmy Swaggart entry:

Swaggart wrote a book "Religious Rock n Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" in 1987.[10]

A review:

Religious Spirit
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2010
We need to discern between a religious spirit's work in people, apart from that of the Holy Spirit. This book is based on a religious spirit which seeks to add to what the Bible would say is wrong, and try to make everyone uniform into what an individual thinks is right with God. No music in and of itself is evil because God created music, but satan does pervert some music. Also, let me say I believe very much in righteous living as the Bible says

1John 3:4. Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5. And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. 7. Little children, let no one deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8. the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. 11. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

I am glad that Jimmy Swaggert is still serving the Lord and fulfilling what God called him to do. Very few have been used so powerfully by God as he has. Many people will be in heaven because of his ministry. As a matter of fact, Stryper got saved through his ministry. I don't mean this review to disrespect Jimmy Swaggert in any way at all. He has done great things for God and has a strong anointing. I simply feel we need to not judge by externals, and actually the rift that was caused by the religious community against Christian rock caused a division in the Christ's kingdom that is still there to this day. There actually needs to be a healing there. Those that continually bash Jimmy Swaggert because of his past failures are in sin and of a religious spirit as well.

But also, I want to make a point here. If there was someone called to be a missionary to an Arab country, they would wear the long beard, turban, and robes to get into that culture and have a voice, but they would preach the message of Christ and bring many to him. There is nothing sinful about having a long beard, turban, or robe on. I believe many of these in Christian rock circles are trying to be a missionary to get into a culture to bring them to Christ. There are some that are off base in Christian rock, rap, or worship, but there are those off base in every realm of Christianity. I think books like this are throwing out the baby with the bath water and based on a religious spirit. That is just my opinion. Hopefully this review helped someone.

Looking for Stryper and finding St. Vitus in the same bin... how many times has this happened

Nesmith's last contractual Monkees commitment was a commercial for Kool-Aid and Nerf balls in April 1970

She chooses to experiment with upbeat, unconventional sounds to produce unique songs that connect to her personal life experiences.[24] She gains her inspiration and love for music from various artists such as Still Woozy, SZA, and John Mayer.[26]

The hard candy metaphor suggests that life can simultaneously be hard and sweet.

CITATION NEEDED

The phrase "fine and dandy" suggests that the singer will become an idle young man with a striking personal appearance & a quasi-religious devotion to fashion

^this

Oh wait, I thought that was about "Sweet and Dandy."

George Sanders

Sanders had grown increasingly reclusive and depressed due to a string of tragedies including the deaths of his third wife, his mother, and his brother Tom in the space of a year, followed by a failed sausage investment, which cost him millions...

I have definitely posted that before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygsqylwrh04

Gotta be a "sausage king of Chicago" joke in there

Europeans OTM.

The final photo on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon-on-Thames

reading through the entirety of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_track

really taxed my brain

xp Deserves to be on the Real England thread.

There was also a limited edition "Slime Pack" planned, which was never released after several packs leaked before shipping and the slime-substance was found to be toxic.

To avoid problems with European censors, Borkon cautioned Franju not to include too much blood (which would upset French censors), refrain from showing animals getting tortured (which would upset English censors) and leave out mad-scientist characters (which would upset German censors).

In 2021, after complex work, Kilmer's voice was able to be re-created through AI technology using archival audio of his voice.

On Guitar Slim, with no further explanation:

He got together with Muddy Waters in Los Angeles, California, for some lively playing.[10]

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His childhood home was the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As a teenager, he attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, where his classmates included actor Wallace Shawn.[4]

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Further novels in the Rennie Stride series are California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop (May 2009), Love Him Madly: Murder at the Whisky (March 2010), A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (January 2011), Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock (November 2012), and Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East (December 2014). The most recent in the series is Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock&Roll (published March 2016).

LOL