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

Before his music career took off, James Brown was actually invited to sponsor the baptism of a large edible flounder, an offer which was accepted. So it's not just a nickname, he really was the Godfather of Halibut.

groan.

DU U C WAT I DID DERE?

1351. "Ya Playin Yaself" by Jeru the Damaja was actually an attack on the then nascent "romo" genre, although heightened beef was caused when subliminals aimed at Dex Dexter frontman Xavior Roide were misinterpreted as a diss on the Bad Boy record label

1352. Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck is known better in academic circles as African-American scholar and social critic Cornell West.

1353. Thom Yorke invested the royalties from OK Computer in a buy-to-let empire of over 700 properties in Ashford, Kent. He employs Phil Selway, who earns nothing from his role in the band (this being a tax-avoidance scheme for Yorke's benefit), to manage the portfolio.

1354. Conor Oberst named his group after a line from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - "Turn around, bright eyes"

1355. Cameron Crowe first made out with his future wife Nancy Wilson of Heart while listening--at Ms. Wilson's request--to the first side of Led Zeppelin IV. Mr. Crowe would combine this event with some advice he overheard from two young men in a record store about how to listen to an unspecified Tom Petty LP while researching his book, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, resulting in a memorable moment in the film of said book.

1347. Lord of the Rings effects crew; Weta Digital placed a scale Bone Thugs n Harmony concert into the Battle of Helms Deep as a joke, however unbeknownst to them, it's mentioned in the original books as Tolkien was a fan.

-- Hamildan, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:39 (2 days ago) Link

ROFL

1356. As a show of support for his daughter, Lionel Richie is re-recording a new version of "Brick House", retitled "She's In The Big House"

[If Leno or somebody has already done essentially the same joke, I've never heard it. Still, my own fault for choosing an easy and obvious target.]

1357. Stephen Morris is still on the roof of Martin Hannett's studio playing the drum part to "She's Lost Control."

1358. Rihanna has a short tail.

1358. Rihanna has a short tail.

Amazing synchronicity! I swear I was about to write the same thing about someone else.

1359. Bass virtuoso Michael Manring has had a bitter ongoing feud with guitarist Joe Satriani since 1982. Neither has spoken publicly about it, but mutual friends of the two widdly-widdly-wee instrumentalists say that it started when Manring secretly changed Satriani's home address without permission and began collecting his royalty money, which was back then sent in the form of cash.

1360. Stephen Malkmus suffers from a severe psychological block which renders him literally unable to record vocals - unless he wears a false moustache and sings to his own reflection in a mirror.

So... who's gonna update wikipedia?

1361. The song "Supersonic" by Oasis marked the first time in musical history that the phrase "gin and tonic" was rhymed with something other than the word "chronic".

1362. Public Enemy first got their start as a party-loving hip-house ensemble based out of Chicago; it was only when Chuck D, on a trip to see his aunt, had an eye opening visit to Philadelphia, that he was inspired to convince all of PE to move there and drop their budding hip-house career in order to make socially aware music instead.

1363. The dude who fucked up David Bowie's eye was none other than a young, pre-celebrity Billy Joel.

1364. Before changing the spelling of their name after signing to Atlantic to pursue the lucrative disco market, Chic were known as Sheikh and performed a unique brand of Middle Eastern-flavoured glam rock in full-blown Bedouin Arab attire.

1365. Daniel Johnston was elected Texas state representative for two non-consecutive terms in 1976 and again in 1982. Under his watch, convicted murderer Leo Thorer was allowed back on the streets after serving only 22 years for the brutal 1958 slayings of Texas police officers Bobby Higgins and Lionel Olden. Do we really want Daniel Johnston representing Texas values? Send a message this Tuesday to the liberal justice system that Texas won't tolerate representatives who have proven themselves soft on crime.

1366. Mick Mars of Motley Crue is sole heir to the Long John Silver's restaurant empire, currently valued at slightly over $500,000.

1367. There is the well-known story of the two Norwegian brothers who were inseparable until they got into an argument over the fundamental role of melody in music. They eventually parted ways after a heated dispute left their relationship in shambles. While one brother remained in Norway, doomed to spend the rest of his life trolling internet message boards, the other traveled abroad and became perhaps the most acclaimed and influential musician of the 20th century. And that man's name was Eddie Money.

1364. Before changing the spelling of their name after signing to Atlantic to pursue the lucrative disco market, Chic were known as Sheikh and performed a unique brand of Middle Eastern-flavoured glam rock in full-blown Bedouin Arab attire.

The problem with this one is that it's not one third as funny as the truth, although if they had worn Bedouin attire at the time they called themselves "Allah and the Knife-Wielding Punks", that would have been awesome.

1368. Korn started as a Pylon tribute act.
1369. In 1985 Conrad Schnitzler was elected mayor of Tarzana, California, but declined the honor due to prior commitments.
1370. Blondie's Debbie Harry has worked as an uncredited script doctor on over 70 films, including "Big", "Out of Africa", "The Pelican Brief", and the entire "Police Academy" series.
1371. The Van Halen albums "Women and Children First", "Fair Warning",
and "Diver Down" were originally intended to be the first 3 installments of a 12-part album cycle about the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

1372. Amy Winehouse [censored by the Jewish Conspiracy] in the donkey.

1372. Ace of Base's smash pop-dance hit, The Sign - while commonly misconstrued as having deep semiological undertones - is in fact actually about the Heideggerian concept of Da Sein, as Ulf Ekberg, the mid-90's Swedish pop-anthem powergroup's keyboardist had recently began his doctorate on Martin Heiddeger at the time. The naming of the track The Sign is the fault of record label Arista, who, unfamiliar with Heidegger, heard 'da sein' as 'the sign' as a result of the groups Swedish accents.

William Bennett of Whitehouse used to do this trick in the early 1980s, he would book appointments at private clinics with female doctors and claim to have a strange lump in his groin, he'd then usually coerce the doctor into masturbating him.

Kevin Tomkins, Sutcliffe Jugend, couldn't cook when he lived in London, he used to buy canned foods, ie - beef stew, ravioli, peas, spaghetti bolognese, sweetcorn, tuna, soup etc and throw it all together in one saucepan. He also had all the Iron Man comics.

Did you know - the drummer from Lush who shot himself once wrote a sex manual under the pseudonym

1376. and when the photographs came back from the lab, there was Midge Ure's disembodied face in the background of every single one.

1377. In 1980 Steve Ignorant of Crass was set to file a patent for his Bullshit Detector, but the prototype was destroyed when he accidentally left it switched whilst he was watching Laverne & Shirley.

Gary Grice is an expert mountaineer and guitarist, with a preference for fender telecasters.

David Hasslehoff once belonged to a Druidish cult

Trent Reznor fused the song "Brickhouse" and Acid Rock to create a new genre called Acid House.

Phil Collins' "Easy Lover" was about anal sex

Beyonce's new album was supposed to include a cover of "I Saw Gener Crying in His Sleep."

David Hasslehoff once belonged to a Druidish cult

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:53 (2 days ago) Link

not only this, he's appearing on the next Sunn O))) album

1384. Goodie Mob's Big Gipp is currently studying for the Intermediate Construction Award in Brickwork at Atlanta Technical College. His father, Ted Gipp, has promised him a job on site in the summer providing he passes his CITB-Construction Health & Safety exam this year. Fellow posse member Khujo Goodie is hoping to take A2 Levels and go on to Uni.

18876. Karl Hyde is a protoclone of "Iggy Pop," himself a vampiric clonoform regenerated from the samples that the Fancigus Collatus recovered after the Black Sea massacre of 1699.

1386. Kate Nash suffers from a rare degenerative muscle condition which makes her look and sound like she's fucking twelve.

1387. "Disco Duck" is based on a true story. Oddly, that story is the Nativity.

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"Ayo Technology" is about 50 Cent's decision to leave the Church of Scientology.

^^^1388.

1389. Nicolas Anelka learned English via repeatedly listening to Tanita Tikaram's 1988 album "Ancient Heart", and has a clause in his Bolton contract that initiates a release clause should Ms Tikaram ever retire from full-time touring.

1390. The so-called "Tapas Nine" actually includes Shovel, the former M People drummer.

1391. Fronting an English band in the 1980s meant that there was a 12% chance your first name was Ian.

1392. Kenney Jones was never the first choice for new drummer in The Who after Keith Moon died. It wasn't until Animal from Muppet Show declined for the fourth time that Pete Townshend finally gave up and asked Jones instead.

Kate Nash changed her name to Nash when she married Graham Nash from CSN&Y.

1394. Drumming for an English band in the 1990s meant there was a 12% chance your first name was Loz.

1395. The deep, erotic sighs that follow the line "Picked up the phone, dropped it on the floor" in Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" were provided by former Leeds United great Johnny Giles.