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

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138. Half Man Half Biscuit were due to be awarded the freedom of the city of Prague in June 1987, but the ceremony was postponed indefinitely owing to Nigel Blackwell's crippling stage fright.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

139. Pete Waterman was originally slated as producer of Radiohead's international chart-topping album Kid A but the band dispensed with his services after finding his approach "too extreme." "I found a Stockhausen record in Avid," quipped band frontman Thom Yorke. "It was called Roadblock and it was really funky. I wanted Radiohead to go down a more acid jazz route, sort of like Jamiroquai meets Nasty Rox Inc. Trust those disreputable rogues in the shop to switch the artist dividers around!" he chuckled.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

140. Brian Eno often cites the fact that he was sick in bed and unable to turn up the stereo as the inspiration for his ambient work. He was, in fact, strapped to the bed as he was at the height of his sexual compulsive phase and friends thought he was in danger of dying of exhaustion.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Suzanne and Alan Vega are identical twins.

TV critic Clive James's hobby of collecting powerful magnets and sellotaping them to his underclothes wrought disaster when he was invited to sit in on a Steely Dan mixing session in the late 70s; when Fagen and Becker realised the antipodean scribe had wiped their work by drunkenly slumping over the Studer 24-track, they sought and gained a court order to force him to recreate (with Jonathan Cohen and Tristan Fry) side B of Aja from memory, in his own time and at his own expense. CJ's long-running smirking-at-the-Japanese shows of the 80s were his way of covering studio costs. See also: Chris Tarrant, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles and Helium Outgassing Syndrome.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

142. The only reason the Killers got so popular is that the drummer's uncle is the well-connected Karl Rove.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

144. Since 2001, Eiffel 65 have been comparing every single song they hear to their own 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)', then giving it a score between -1 and -10 based on how much worse it is than 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'. Currently leading is Freeland's 'We Want Your Soul', with a score of -7.628.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

145. McDonalds' UK only burger the "Big Tasty" was created in order to celebrate "The Gentle Art Of Choking" by My Vitriol reaching the top 40, My Vitriol frontman Som Wijay-Wardner being a former four star worker at the company's Thannet town centre branch.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

146. Though they're loath to admit it, Funeral For A Friend are actually really good at rugby union.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

147. "With A Little Bit of Luck" by DJ Luck and MC Neat is the official song of Jainism.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

The engineer and mixer of Napalm Death's 'From Enslavement to Obliteration' album is none other than Phil "Mixmaster" Harding, who was also mixing many of Stock Aitken and Waterman's classic hits at the time!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

149. Exeter is the largest city in Britain without a thriving drum & bass scene.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

150. The term "gaydar" was first used on the inlay to Pinhead Gunpowder's debut album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

151. Wondering what Sash! has been up to lately? Wonder no more - he's been writing a book about how all his hit singles were actually about Communism, and is currently hawking it around the major publishing houses of Germany.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

152. The legendary producton team, the Bomb Squad, is actually just one man, Rieg Siseneg Orgnoh from Utter Egypt.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Bjorn Ulvaeus lost his eye during a freak accident concert with his old band the Hootennany Singer, and had a glass eye replacement. If you carefully in the Abba videos, you can see his left eye (ie the one on the right from the viewers perspective), it looks a bit funny!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

154. The Police quietly reunite once a year in the Arctic circle, exclusively for family, friends and Inuit. Sting secretly thinks that this is what's really behind global warming ... and he likes it!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

155. It would take approximately sixteen years to listen non stop to every song posted on every MP3 blog in the last 12 minutes.

― elwisty (elwisty), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

156. Dr and the Medics were all actually firemen, but they couldn't come up with an appropriat name.

157. Mick Hucknell started the rumour about his amazing ability to attract women, in an attempt to be attractive to women.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

158. Andy Partridge is an uncredited collaborator on all of Richard Curtis' movie projects, including Four Weddings and a Funeral, Morvern Callar, Soul Plane, and Art School Sluts 2: Yoni's Revenge.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

159. Neil Young's legendary contempt for the CD format was actually a result of his having invested heavily in a rival technology, JVC's UltraDisc. The UltraDisc was a tiny 1.5 inch vinyl disc, designed to be played on portable turntables. Each disc was capable of holding exactly 1.5 inches of data, i.e. approximately 20 seconds of music.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

160. Due to a rare bone condition, Bootsy Collins is unable to float in water, and has not had a bath since 1967.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

161. The original version of Diana Ross & The Supremes' 'Love Child' was written by Ross herself, and was entitled 'Martha Reeves Doesn't Know Who Her Daddy Is'. Ross only performed the re-written version under heavy sedation.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

162. There are no less than three separate British Government departments solely devoted to ensuring that John Martyn never becomes popular.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

163. The Goombay Dance Band, who scored a UK number 1 with "Seven Tears" in 1982, featured a young Sizzla and Shabba Ranks on backing vocals.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

164. The Pet Shop Boys' song "Left to My Own Devices" features the lyric "Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat". Ironically, Guevara hated Debussy's music, describing it as "reactionary bourgeois indie shite". Debussy, on the other hand, was a huge disco fan, scoring the string arrangements for several classics including Odyssey's "Use It Up and Wear It Out".

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

165. Journalists who were originally "dissed" in Guns N Roses 1991 album track before time constraints led to a rewrite include Alan Coren, Polly Toynbee, and "Beano" editor Euan Kerr.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

165. Journalists who were originally "dissed" in Guns N Roses 1991 album track "Get In The Ring" before time constraints led to a rewrite include Alan Coren, Polly Toynbee, and "Beano" editor Euan Kerr.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

167. Brian Higgins, in an effort to feel more "real" as an artist, is secretly ghostwriting/producing the forthcoming comeback album by Nick Kamen.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

168. Swearing on rap records was first invented by Biz Markie on his 1988 b-side "Bloody Postman's Late Again". Record Industry bosses told him that bad language would never become popular.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

169. Richard O'Brian, writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, presenter of The Crystal Maze and occasional actor is only two degrees of seperation from every UK #1 hit since 1983.

On a side note, the "Mumsy" character was played by Carol Vordeman's mother.

― Magnakai (Magnakai), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

170. Jaco Pastorius was shot dead while attempting to knock a deer unconscious on a roadside. His killer was never caught.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

171. Koch Records recently released their own version of the boardgame Risk, with the continent of Australasia replaced by C-Murder.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

172. Three of Mayhem's songs are uncredited Orange Juice covers with different titles.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

173. A fateful meeting between Jimmy Saville and Michael Jackson in 1977 - which degenerated into a childish name-calling contest, during which the silver haired DJ lifted up his trouser leg for extra movement before stamping on Jackson's foot - inspired both the sock fetish and the famous cry of the King of Pop.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

174. 'Help The Aged' is actually a belated response record to 'Earth Song'.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

175. For their first 12 gigs, Sly & The Family Stone were called He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. Sly Stone only decided to change the name after falling over a coffee table at Crosby, Stills & Nash's house.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

175. Tom Jones was once mistakenly booked to open for a pre-fame Ramones at CBGB's. Jones, undaunted, launched into scorching rockabilly renditions of his greatest hits.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

176. The chorus of 1997's "Beetlebum" marks the first ever use of the chord C major in Blur's recorded output, as Graham Coxon had only recently overcome his irrational terror of it.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

177. Most people don't know that Koch records was founded by former NYC mayor Ed Koch.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

178. In addition to naming their outfit "The Beta Band" and disowning their debut artist album immediately before its release in 1999, the Scotland/Portsmouth quartet's legendary lack of self-confidence and poor judgment led them to run up a large debt with their record label by paying Radio 1 & 2 not to playlist any of their subsequent singles and visiting various therapists almost every day of each week for 5 years.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

180. Stevie Jackson of Belle & Sebastian is Clare Grogan's dad.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

181. Ghostface Killah has only actually killed one person.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

182. Alt-classical band Rachel's shortened their name from Rachel's Hair in disgust, after Jennifer Aniston restyled her mane in season six.

― alberto confetti, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

183. James ate Richey.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Avoidant (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

184. Stevie Nicks.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

185. Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Nicola Roberts and Est'elle will perform 'Like A Virgin'/'Hollywood' at the 2006 Brit Awards. Est'elle will sport the most conservative outfit.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

186. Jesus Jones' original name? Jesus Juice.

― BARMS, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

187. Roni Size and Shy FX are both secretly from the Canadian town of Barrie, Ontario.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

188. Barry Ontario is the real name of singer-songwriter David Gray.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

189. David Grey, Barry White, Jason Orange and Frank Black were part of a range of "Rock Tints" introduced by Dulux in its Autumn 2002 range.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

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