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

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526. David Bowie doesn't just have two differently colored eyes: he's blind. Iggy Pop wrote "I Wanna Be Your Dog" when he read a piece about Bowie in "Reader's Digest," felt bad, and wanted to help out.

527. Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan was born and raised in Iowa.

528. Sandy Denny was allergic to peanuts. She had to leave Fairport Convention because Richard Thompson was addicted to them.

529. Van Halen had no idea "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" was an acronym.

530. Polly Jean Harvey's dad was Benny Hill.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

531. Chuck Klosterman doesn't really need glasses -- he just wears them to pick up chicks.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

532. Jeff Buckley's dad was actually Todd Rundgren.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

533. A young Robert Pollard can be spotted in the audience duirng the Pere Ubu sequence of the 1981 film "Urgh! A Music War."

534. Joy Division took their name from 1920's surreallist/dadaist Joi de Vision.

535, John Lennon can be heard to mutter "I buried Paul" for real during the fade-out of "How Do You Sleep"

― Declan Zimmerman, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

536. 154 is number 28

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

537. Exceptor frontman and No Neck Blues Band alum, John Fell Ryan got his big break in music as a founding member of the American two tone band Bim Skala Bim.

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

The idea of "Everyday is Like Sunday" goes back to when Morrissey was a five-year-old boy roaming the Stretford streets with his father. It was during Christmas break while looking out his car window when Steven was confused as to why all the little shops were closed. "Why is the candy store closed on a Tuesday, father?", he asked. "Everyday is like a Sunday this time of year, Steven".

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

539. Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" is based on the real-life exploits of the young Phil Lynott; hence its ultra-realism and obsessive attention to detail about western living.

540. EVERY song written by Stuart "Adam Ant" Goddard actually happened. That's his policy, sworn on a blood oath.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

541. Atlanta Braves slugger Julio Franco was an original member of Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs. He played bass, and sometimes rhythm guitar.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

542. Burzum's Varg Vikernes has recently become a born again Christian. In fact very soon he plans to record his next opus, an unofficial soundtrack to Mel Gibson's Jesus epic called "My Burning Passion".

― latebloomer: You may order a puppet similar to this one (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

542. Diplo invented Brazilian poverty.

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

544. Franz Ferdinand actually got their band name by taking the names of their two hairdressers.

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

They only have 2?

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

Back when they were on Domino, it's all they had a budget for.

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and director Wes Anderson are both closet homosexuals and have been dating in secret since 1999.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Supposed Gimmicks of Yore
546. On stage Kelly Osbourne blew up a goat.
547. In the early days the Village People used to pass a bowl through the audience, and after everybody spit it in - - they'd drink it!!
548. I heard that Wings stomped on baby chickens with their big ol' rock boots.

All true!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah... and KISS really stands for Kids Improve Self Stature.
http://www.neffzone.com/kiss/genekids.jpg

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 15 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Right wing pundit and all around douchebag Tucker Carlson wears his trademark bow tie in tribute to his favorite hard rock guitarist, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen.

― casey (t. fiend), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

551. TLC's "Creep" is an answer record to the Stone Temple Pilots song of the same name.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

552. The scream heard in the song "Love Rollercoaster" as performed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the Beavis and Butthead Do America Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is actually a real scream.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

553. Donna Summer once told an interviewer that lesbians were G-d's chosen people, which is why they were unaffected by AIDS.

554. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" was the first popular hit song to be released with the phrase "fucking cocksucker" intact.

555. So-called "platinum" albums, as awarded by the RIAA, actually contain no platinum at all. They're really chocolate wrapped in platinum-coloured foil.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

556. Before achieving success as rappers and in demand producers, The Beatnuts used to "whiten up" and perform a Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill act at children's parties.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

557. The national anthems before the final test of The Ashes will be performed by Converge.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

558. Rachel Trachtenberg is actually 19.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

559. [I]Buena Vista Social Club[/I] is entirely fictional.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

560. Christian Marclay was the fill-in DJ for the Fearless Four on at least two occasions.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

561. Mama Cass choked to death on a bag of Pop Rocks... unopened.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

561. Humpty Hump is actually Miami Vice's Phillip Michael Thomas with a fake nose.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Michael Nesmith's mom invented AIDS

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

564. The majority of communion wine taken at Catholic churches in the UK is brought from a warehouse owned by K-Os and Zia from the Dandy Warhols.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

565. Keith Richards is a woman; Yoko Ono is not.
566. The lead singer of the Gorillaz is engaged in a torrid affair with Betty Rubble.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

567. The collected lyrics of Kiss contain at least one example of every rhetorical device known to man.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

568. Thom Yorke's mother used to warn him about the danger of a sudden change in wind-direction.

569. There are currently 13 bands touring the UK claiming to be the original Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.

570. Alanis Morissette is totally on my dick.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

571. The Kirstie Alley looking one from the Magic Numbers is actually the niece of 1960s London gangster Jack "That Hat" McVitie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

572. In central Europe, Dairylea Lunchables are endorsed on the television by NOFX dressed as seals.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

573. The Stone Roses are banned in Anglesey. It has never been explained why.

574. Drum 'n' bass was invented at illegal raves held in the radiology department of King's College Hospital on the third Sunday of every month in 1989.

575. Sleeper originally formed in Dulwich, at a support group for people who had had one or more fingers bitten off by wildfowl. Louise Wener has since had her right index finger restored by plastic surgery.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

576. Not even his closest friends are quite sure why, but Mark E. Smith secretly covered the publishing costs for some slim volumes of Guns & Roses slash.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

577. Babyface can only count up to fourteen.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

578. Kid Creole and the Coconuts' "Stool Pigeon" is about Timothy Leary.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

579. Bilal owns the world's largest collection of nautical compasses.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

580. People seem to forget that the Woodstock festival was named after the Peanuts cartoon character, not the other way around.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

581. Menswe@r were originally going to name themselves after 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?' star Rodney Bewes, until they realised that they didn't actually know who he was.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

582. In April 2005 it was revealed that Pete Doherty's entire career was actually a viral marketing campaign for the Playstation Portable.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

583. There are no permanent members of the Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne will allow any group of people to perform under the name so long as they have received his express written permission beforehand to perform under the name on a given date when no other band is using the name. Coyne has also legally arranged for the name 'The Flaming Lips' to pass into the public domain 35 years after his death, though WarnerChappell will own the rights to all works recorded under said name in perpetuity.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

584. Both Diplo and The Dipset are named after popular racehorse Benny The Dip, winner of the 1997 Derby.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

585. "The Avenue" by Roll Deep was originally going to be based around a sample of "Army" by Ben Folds Five

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

586. Li'l Jon officially purchased the gift of bass from Mark King of Level 42 in November 2002 for $75.3m.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

587. Chris Helme of The Seahorses is the nephew of 'The Fast Show's Arabella Weir.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

588. Before getting Courtney Love pregnant, Steve Coogan had already fucked 3/4 of L7.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

589. Before becoming famous, The Game worked as a scullery maid for Donatella Versace.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

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