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

1592. Elvis Presley was actually just his stage name, he was born Melvin Minkovsky in Yonkers, NY.

1593. "Pylon's" albums are just Blondie outtakes. There was never such a band as Pylon.

1594. conan o'brien plays drums on several of the songs on galaxie 500's debut album "today"

(i'm done writing these, sorry)

The bass sound on Sly's "Family Affair" comes from the amp got shot in the woofer cause of drugs.

i heard that sly recorded his vocals for that album laying in bed. is that true?

1596. "The Amp Got Shot in the Woofer Cause of Drugs" initially appeared as the B-side to Sly and the Family Stone's 1971 hit, "Family Affair". This edition of single was pulled within days of its October 16 release date, however, when the FDA discovered that the vinyl used contained dangerously high levels of several toxic ketone compounds. When the single was re-released on 6 November 1971, the new pressing was backed with "Luv n' Haight". "The Amp Got Shot in the Woofer Cause of Drugs" has not since been released or compiled, and the few known copies of the original single (the volatile toxic compounds having long ago evaporated) trade for upwards of $1,000.

lol.

damn dude, I was never sure before.

i always picture him like that when i listen to the album anyway. it's probably my favorite album ever.

fuck yeah. damn close anyway. and whether or not he did, he ought to have recorded it from bed. riot story i always heard (provenance dubious at best) is that the songs attains their softened, bleary-eyed vibe as the product of endless re-recordings on the same master. sly would bring a new girl into the studio "every night" and have her re-track this or that vocal part as part of some drug-fueled seduction routine. like check it baby, you're gonna be a star, see. stories...

so like 1596.5

lolling at "got shot in the woofer"

In the village of Kapkatet, Kenya in the late 1990′s, members of the Kipsigi tribe somehow came across a few records of Sinead O'Connor. Convinced that such strange sounds could not come from a human, the voice was attributed to a centaur-like spirit they called Chenedokona. This half-man half-antelope is honored in fertility rites where young Kipsigi maidens dance seductively to the Sinead O'Connor records, begging her to join them in a leaping dance in hopes that Chenedokona will jump completely out of her clothes.

^lol!

1598. you can make the http://i.imgur.com/s91yDLG.png symbol on Windows by holding down the Alt key and typing 1999.

1599. Due to a Warner Bros. vault fire, there are no surviving copies of The Pogues' debut album, "Red Roses For Me." In 1997, a fan discovered a copy at a Van Nuys pawn shop, but the LP contained no music, just 77 minutes of sampled police sirens.

1600. david bowie has no memory of recording station to station in los angeles, during the height of his coke addiction. (i know that bowie himself is the source for this but... come on. no way.)

my middle school music teacher tried to convince my class that Eric Clapton had virtually no memory of the 20 years of his life that coincided with his most serious drug abuse. 20 years!

If only his audience could be so lucky.

i wonder if eric clapton hates himself

It's okay, I can pitch in if he doesn't

1601. Noted film director Werner Herzog only owns one CD and forbids any other music to be played in his presence, it is entitled Gordon by the Bare Naked Ladies

1602. in homage to early wax cylinder technology, which didn't allow duplication, every copy of Tiny Tim's single "Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips" contained a unique recording of the song. at the peak of the song's popularity, Tiny would sing it over and over in the recording studio more than 500 times per day, reducing his output only after the pressing plant workers went on strike.

omg

that's the best one so far. and plausible in its way.

thanks! I got the idea from reading George W. Johnson's wiki entry (50 times per day is impressive enough), y'know.

1603. Johnny Burnette's hit song originally went, "You're nine, you're beautiful, and you're mine," but he changed it at the last minute because he thought the internal rhyme was too gauche.

1605. Kate Bush and Andy Partridge have been indulging their love of the road by billing themselves as The Captain and Tennile - Unplugged! and limiting their performances to the hinterlands of Southeast Asia, the outback of Australia and also, the outhouses of Utah.

1606 - Wishing to be more informed to handle copyright issues facing his band, Keith Richards earned a law degree online in 2008.

1607. NASA lied when they said the Voyager Golden Record included everything from Bach to Chuck Berry to Inuit war dances. it was really just a gold-plated copy of Mothership Connection.

1608. The stage name of the artist who recently released the album True Romance is properly pronounced "Charli Ninety-Ten".

1609. While lesser know than Bowie's more successful personas such as Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke, Sass-Talkin' Grandma remains one of Bowie's most beloved characters. Created during his Vics 44-induced lost weekend w/Ruth Buzzy in Brandson, MO, Grandma was known for her southern drawl and witty catchphrases. Bowies' follow-up, Mittens - the lovable hobo, was met with mixed reviews.

1610. bob dylan has been known to post to popular internet messageboard ilxor.com under the alias "waterface"

1611. John Mayer got his start in the New Bohemians

1612. The original title for Queen's 1977 album track, 'Get Down, Make Love', was originally 'Get Down, Make Loaves', and featured a different set of lyrics with a bread making theme to them. Brian May and John Deacon were apparently enthused by the original composition, but Roger Taylor decried the song as being a little "naff", leading Freddie Mercury to rewrite the lyrics based on a more universal, sexual theme. "We battled with Rog for ages over that one," recalls poodle-haired guitarist May, "we argued that it was perfectly acceptable for him to write songs about being in love with his car, but yet Fred writes this lovely, domesticated thing - quite a rarity for him - and suddenly there's a lot of protest. Warburtons even took an interest at one point, so we lost a lot of money in potential advertising income. Fred was sneaky though, and if you listen closely to the track, he is in fact singing 'loave' instead of 'love' at some points in the track as a bit of a fuck you to Rog."

1613. Bad Brains won Best Punk/Hardcore Video at the first Video Music Awards, an honor they then bragged about in the song "Attitude" ("Hey, we got that VMA!")

1614. Kitty Pryde is David Tibet's biological daughter.

1615. Ted Nugent's family invented nougat, which is why he changed his last name. He wanted to succeed on his own merits.
1616. Thom Yorke is classically trained in tuba.
1617. Iggy Pop has an Etsy shop sideline that specializes in knit yarn cupcakes.

1618. Britt Daniel adopted his stage name after a chance meeting with a young Daniel Radcliffe at a Harry Potter convention.
1619. Tom Waits honed his craft on the kibbutz circuit.
1620. Thomas Edison invented rap.

1621. Morrissey is really seriously ill

1622. Sinead O'Connor first shaved her head prior to a casting call by the producers of the fifth film in the Star Trek franchise to replace Persis Khambatta as Ilia. O'Connor won the role and was featured prominently in the film and in all subsequent Star Trek films based around the cast of the original series. O'Connor left the music industry after her popular character was spun off into her own series.

1623. The so-called "demon" make-up that Gene Simmons dons is actually his real face. The other guys in Kiss all wear make-up to help buoy his crippling low self-esteem.

1624. The Scott Walker featured on the upcoming SunnO))) collaboration is not *that* Scott Walker, and is in fact a financial adviser from Swindon who shares the same name.

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that was 1625.

1626. Soundgarden's Chris Cornell dated TV mainstay Oprah Winfrey briefly in the spring of 1993 after meeting her backstage at an awards show. The relationship was reportedly tempestuous, but the straw that broke the camel's back came when Cornell sang her an acapella version of a new song he was workshopping. The song, which eventually became the #1 smash "Black Hole Sun," was later released on their hit album "Superunknown."

"The moment I heard those strangled vocals," Winfrey allegedly told a close confidant, "I knew that he couldn't be the One. He was talking about 'snakes of disgrace' or something... It was weird and I just had to leave."

1627. Olivia Newton-John originally wrote "Hopelessly Devoted To You" as the official AmWay theme song during her brief association with the company. After her messy departure, she hastily remade the song into the Charmin toilet tissue jingle we recognize today.

1628. Blurred Lines was originally written as a jingle for the American Optometric Association, as an encouragement to people to check their prescription. Thicke's manager heard the jingle when collected a new pair of sunglasses, and realised that with some slight lyrical changes, it could be a summer breakout hit, and paid the jinglewriters $200 for use of the song.

Many of the lyrics for Haddaway's "What Is Love" were lifted from a collection of letters written by Immanuel Kant to his favourite mistress. However, the "baby don't hurt me" line was Haddaway's personal creation, which he insisted on leaving in the song despite protests from his record company.