Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Born Jan. 1962.

Partly as a result of this thread I've been listening the Slits lately and, boy, does Bjork owe a lot to Ari Up.

This has the slightly dubious distinction of being the first record I ever disliked. I barely knew about records at all, I was four and three quarters: so my cynicism started early, if you like. This one was inescapable – number one for nine weeks, two million sold, flattening the opposition through Christmas ’77 and then on into ’78. I didn’t know what number ones were but I guess I just got bored of “Mull” being around, its comforting lullaby sway pushing into even our pop-free household*. I remember not being able to figure out what a Mull was, or a Kintyre: I’d been reading the Hobbit, and the Narnia books, so I reckoned it was an honorific, like King, or Tarkaan. And this dark haired guy singing it, he’d be the Mull, then?

TIL Tom Ewing was a reading prodigy

The Georgie Fame/ Matt Bianco hit, "Yeh Yeh", was co-written by Pat Patrick of Sun Ra's Arkestra.

I never knew that, I never knew that!
I never knew that, I never knew that!

That Bonnie Bedelia is the Culkin brothers' aunt.

The blonde woman on the cover of "Led Zeppelin II" is Delphine Seyrig.

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The brown shirts taht gave the right wing thugs attached to the Nazi party their name were ones initially made for the Schutztruppe the foreign legion manhandling natives in South West Africa. They had been stranded in Germany and not shipped to the troops concerned because of trouble with shipping during the First World War, Subsequently had never been worn and were acquired from a government contact of the early party.

The blonde woman on the cover of "Led Zeppelin II" is Delphine Seyrig

I think I had always assumed it was Lucille Ball, which evidently is a very common misapprehension. But many sources claim that it's Glynis Johns, as a play on Glyn Johns, the engineer. Which would make sense except it was his brother Andy Johns who worked on LZII, not Glyn, who had worked on the first Zep album. Plus the blonde woman doesn't look anything like Glynis Johns (to me) - much more like Delphine Seyrig.

ugh sorry for formatting mistake

(xp) It's apparently taken from the film, "Mr. Freedom".

https://kinoimages.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/12_delphine-seyrig-in-mr-freedom-william-klein-1969.jpg

... though obviously not that particular image.

For the past 45 years, I've thought it was Lucille Ball. I am shockingly old to have learned different.

TIL that there's a woman on the cover of Led Zeppelin II! (When I first encountered the album as a kid, I focused on the four members of LZ and didn't pay any attention at all to the other people.)

Here is the album cover side by side with the photo from which it was taken

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b0T05NgBjPc/U6sIBxegFDI/AAAAAAAAC4Q/4bjEO9o9WjY/s1600/Led+Zeppelin+II+Album+Cover+1969.jpg

Who are the other people on the cover I wonder?

Thats the Red Baron sat in the cockpit of the plane iirc xp

I always thought it was Led Zep hanging with some Hells Angels

(xp) Always thought it was Desi Arnaz.

I think they mostly just added facial hair and sunglasses to the other four.

It's Christopher Lee, James Coburn and Michael Parkinson

first time i saw it as a kid (on my stepmother's 8-track!) i assumed everyone on the cover was in the group, and i was like dang that is one big, tough-looking band

I definitely never realized that their faces were just pasted in there

same

also xxp that is amazing, ty

I think the first physical LZ release I saw was also an 8-track, circa 1975

LZII was the second album of theirs I bought (after HoTH). The label on side 1 was off-center, so the end of "Thank You" had an added "tsss . . . tsss . . . tsss." I can still hear it, even in digital format.

It's Christopher Lee, James Coburn and Michael Parkinson

Joe Cocker sang the co-lead on "Up Where We Belong"

The Louvin Brothers and John D. Loudermilk were cousins (the Louvins' real name was Loudermilk).

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I knew this but not surprised others are shockingly old when they learn it.

Joe Cocker sang the co-lead on "Up Where We Belong"

among his many crimes

I didn't realize until about a year ago that the chorus of Run-DMC "It's Tricky" was interpolating the chant from Toni Basil "Hey Mickey"[...]

— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) September 3, 2018

Me, last week

It me as well.

yeah, despite hearing both songs a million times since I was a child, this somehow never occurred to me

Similarly I recently realised that on Money For Nothing, Sting sings “I want my MTV" to the tune of Don't Stand So Close To Me. Is this common knowledge to other people?

Turns out I am entirely deaf to tunes being reused elsewhere. Thanks, these last couple of posts, for blowing my mind.

I had no idea about both “Money For Nothing”/“Don’t Stand So Close” nor “It’s Tricky”/“Mickey” until just now.

It was a dirty trick by Sting, since he later got royalties and songwriting credit for that.

Wikipedia says that Knopfler wrote that line with that melody, thought it would be funny if Sting sung it so he asked him and he agreed.

And MTV used that bit as an ident for I don't know how long. Did they share the perf monies?

Sting blames his publishing company. OK, Sting.

the Wise Man in Army of Darkness is Pitt from Seinfeld

Today I learned that Sting sings the "I want my MTV" parts of "Money For Nothing"

That's shocking.

LOL indeed

I mean, that song is a bit before my time and I never paid much attention to it (I remember seeing and liking the video as a kid though). I guess it would be super obvious and well known to people ~3 years older than me.

i listened to it absolutely loads as a kid and never knew until now!