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

1417. Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from Leonard Skinner, a disciplinarian gym teacher at the band members' former school, but they chose their unique spelling so that he would be unable to Google himself and discover this mocking tribute.

1418. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats was once videotaped sodomizing an endangered bobcat. The video was leaked to Youtube in 2007.

1419. Bob Lefsetz's music industry experience consists entirely of a two-week stint MCing a karaoke bar in Dayton in 1994.

1420. John Darnielle is secretly an actual mountain goat

lol at noodle vague's latest

1421. Most of us know, by now, about Brendan Canning's performance as "stoned dude #2" on Len's ubiquitous 1999 hit "Steal My Sunshine", but no one talks about fellow Broken Social Scenesters Leslie Feist and Andrew Whiteman and thier orange jumpsuited appearance in the video for Bran Van 3000's "Drinking in LA" video despite not performing on the song itself.

Classic material.

1422. dom passantino is the fifth beatle

1423. dom secretly thinks every entry on this thread is hilarious

1424. In the original draft of Ray Bradbury's "a Sound of Thunder", a time traveler goes back to 1985 and accidentally kills Justine Frischmann & Kate Radley. Upon returning to the present he finds that popular culture has changed in subtle but noticeable ways.
(this could possibly be a thread in its own right)

This thread contains a stunning amount of marvellous material: I salute those who have produced it.

1425. The Stars of the Lid track "Dopamine Clouds over Craven Cottage" was titled after an (abortive) plan by Mohamed Al-Fayed to cremate the body of his son Dodi in the centre circle at half time during Fulham's opening game of the season.

Holy shit - how many years since pinefox has posted here?!

About 16 hours, I think.

i see him on here often, no?

1426. Minnie Riperton only had a two-octave vocal range. The rest was done with a theremin.

1427. Def Leppard took their name from an obscure old Australian expression, "Wet enough to melt the antlers off a deaf leopard."

1428. Although Hype Williams is credited, the music video for Busta Rhymes' smash hit "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" was actually ghost-directed by then Williams intern David Gordon Green, who silently filled in while Williams was being treated for a rare case of motor neurons disease.

1429. Every Daft Punk album since Discovery begins with a different vocal sample from southern rapper Silkk the Shocker's No Limit Records debut "Physical Graffiti".

1430. Three of the four members of Interpol worked as speechwriters for Kentucky governor Brereton Jones prior to releasing their debut album. Their most celebrated work, an uplifting speech delivered during a potentially devastating energy shortage was titled "Turn On The Bright Lights".

1431. Mos Def is allergic to metal. When performing live, he uses a special microphone made of whole grain wheat.

1432. Hyped BBC favourites Florence and the Machine recently signed a 10-tour sponsorship deal with Wrights Pies.

1433. Former ILX Controversialist Esteban Buttez owns Australia's largest collection of Sal Solo memorabilia. Nothing by Classix Nouveaux though because he thinks they're shit.

1434. I kissed a girl and received a restraining order.

1435. Michelle Obama and her cousin, Beverly, performed in the backing band in the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense concert.

The movie Gremlins was based loosely on screenwriter Michael Polino's experiences hanging out with the band Lynyrd Skynyrd in the mid-1970s. The Gremlin ringleader Stripe, in particular, was modeled on the antics of Ronnie Van Zant, while the general visual appearance of the Gremlins was modeled on Polino's vision of what the band might have looked like after the fiery plane crash that killed many of the band's members in 1977. At the time of the movie's release, Lynyrd Skynyrd spokespeople and fans called the move tasteless, an opinion that seems to have softened somewhat over time.

that was 1436, btw.

1437. Vampire Weekend is going to have a very long and fruitful career.

Bruce Springsteen admits that most of the material for 2009's "Working On A Dream" was written as he scanned the posts on fmylife.com with his guitar in his lap and his computer on his desk. He'd spend forty-five seconds trying to put an fmylife entry to music and if he thought it worked he'd turn on the tape recorder and save it for later.

^ 1438

1439. The first "promo video" wasn't a video at all! In 1830 Felix Mendelssohn commisioned a series of Magic Lantern slides of his recent holiday in Scotland, to be shown at concert performances of The Hebrides overture when he was too wasted to attend in person.

1440. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" contains a sample of George Formby saying "Eh Oop Missus".

1441. That singer out of Twisted Sister was a bloke. Hairy bollocks and everything.

1442. Before it was a film, a live musical or even an album, Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar" was actually a sandwich.

1443. Tim Westwood's dad is actually just a vicar.

1444. Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Mrs Dalloway didn't do so well.

1445. Linda Ronstadt's cover of "Nookie" was supposed to be released on September 11, 2001, but was suspiciously canned at the last minute.

If you search #beatlefacts today on Twitter there are some pretty good ones!

1446. Beth Ditto derived her stage name by making an anagram of "hotbed tit."

1447. Formerly popular production duo The Neptunes originally got together as a Chas and Dave tribute act.

1448. Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully molded Garth Brooks.

1449. Garth Brooks (real name Duane Jockstrap) chose his stage name in honour of former Spurs striker and BBC pundit Garth Crooks. Brooks became a fan of Tottenham Hotspur during the year he spent at UCL whilst studying for his degree in Theoretical Physics.

1450. Ringo Starr plays drums on the first Led Zeppelin album; Bernard Purdie played on the rest.

1451. None of Cabaret Voltaire's recorded music has ever been played on any radio station in the world, ever. The only airplay they've ever gotten is the result of their infrequent live simulcast performances transmitted worldwide by satellite and emanating from their secret underground facility in Dresden.

1452. The New York Dolls originally formed as a high-school barbershop quartet; they called themselves The Latin Kings, due to their prowess at classical languages.

1453. What's that Lassie? Young Jeezy's trapped down a well you say?

1454. Ben Ofoedu, vocalist on Phats and Smalls' 1999 classic "Turn Around", is now engaged to TV nightmare Vanessa Feltz, and often spends his time kissing and touching the demented harpy as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

1455. Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist DJ Talent originally DJed under the name DJ Swine Flu.

1456. PJ Harvey and DJ Harvey are brother and sister.

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee's nickname 'T-bomb' refers to his ability to deliver blunt and uncompromising, yet fair, assessments of people and situations