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

1645. XTC Bassist Colin Moulding shares a small cul-de-sac in rural England with Iron Maiden crazy-man Bruce Dickinson. They once had a minor land dispute but have since resolved it.

1646. Arthur Lee has been covered more times than any other American artist with the exception of Elvis Presley.

1647. Mama Cass's remains were accidentally baked into a shepherd's pie.

1648. To this day, even after fifteen years together, none of the members of Broken Social Scene know the names of anyone else in the band. To deal with this problem, the band uses a complex system of personalized coloured stickers and hand signals in order to give instructions to one another.

1649. Techno legend Juan Atkins' real name is Billy Corgan.

1650. Jimmy Page loves seeing his autograph on Ebay and encourages fans to bring guitars for him to sign.

1651. Chunky A had a stint as a late night talk show host which he cut short when he had the opportunity to replace Russell Hitchcock in a revamped Air Supply.

1652. Deee-Lite were the winners of the third season of "Amazing Race Japan".

1653. Natalie Prass started her career as the keyboardist for the Fugees. Her real name is Natalie Sanchez but decided to change her name after a brief affair with Pras Michel. They are still good friends.

1654. Credits to Beyonce's "Countdown" list an unknown co-producer under the Lamb moniker. Richard D James confessed in a soundcloud comment that its's a alias he frequently uses when producing R&B and pop singles.

1655. John Lennon wrote an answer song to David Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing". However, "David, It's Still Annoying" was considered subpar by everyone involved, and to date its only appearance on record is as a bonus track on the first Japanese CD reissue of Mind Games from 1987.

1656. Bob Dylan is the oldest rock star to have personally registered his own vine account. It primarily features clips of him telling his grandkids to have a good day.

1657. In 2011, David Bowie wrote a list of his five favorite Christian Bale performances but has been unable to find a "proper home" for it in the media. In 2014, he replaced Newsies with American Hustle.

1658. Rick Dees was convinced by his manager to record "Disco Duck" as the radio friendly b-side to "Disco Fuck" (the eponymous theme song from his debut as a porn actor). Surprisingly, both songs received equivalent levels of airplay.

1659. Tim McGraw was amused to discover his current physical similarity to Weiland recently, and is currently fond of writhing shirtless in front of wife Faith Hill and singing bits of "Interstate Love Song" and "Vasoline" before giggling "You married Weiland!"

1660. Def Leppard named their third album Pyromania (following Rick Savage's 1982 arrest) to commemorate the fact that all of the band's members had been convicted of arson.

1661. Brian Jones' nickname for Charlie Watts was "Chuckie". Charlie walked out of the film Child's Play due to the sentimental association, but told his friends he just thought it was a stupid movie. The truth was revealed to a potential biography ghostwriter in 2003.

1662. The Residents added Extreme's Gary Cherone and a rotation of members from the Little River Band and Urban Dance Squad to their ranks before they changed disguises and renamed themselves Slipknot.

1663. Rob and Fab of Milli Vanilli sang backup on a series of minor German electropop hits in the mid-eighties. After one too many takes (and beers), the duo stormed out of the studio in the middle of a session. The incident gave them a reputation of being difficult to work with and as a result, most top German producers of the time refused to work with them ever again. Frank Farian later dubbed them Milli Vanilli because the name "sounded like an Italo-disco outfit". This clever naming slight-of-hand achieved its desired result -- their true identity was never discovered by the people running the top German recording studios of the time. Entering the studio to sing on the records risked blowing their cover, so the band's management had no choice but to hire singers while Rob and Fab learned to lip sync along to their own records in Frank Farian's living room, lest they all risk being boycotted by the unforgiving music industry of the day. While their debut album was being recorded in their absence, Fab Morvan dedicated himself fully to his favourite hobby -- chess -- and by late 1988 was ranked as one of the top 50 chess players under the age of 30 in Bavaria.

1664. Ringo Starr's real name is Ringo Goldblatt.

1665. Both of Mr Mister's big hits – Kyrie and Broken Wings – were written as protests by singer Richard Page (real name Marinos Ouzounidis) after he was excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox church. Page had travelled to Istanbul to picket the Patriarchate of Constantinople, after he was banned from resetting the words of Greek hymns to REO Speedwagon and Styx melodies to play in his local church. When priests tried to remonstrate with him, he struck them, causing his excommunication. In 2009 Page set up his own church, and now – at last – he is able to play his MOR hymns to a loyal flock.

1666. Mick Jagger was born in 1666.

1667. The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian" was banned in Egypt because it was deemed discriminatory by the national broadcast authority. Because they were unable to play their most famous hit during a 1989 tour stop in Cairo, the band protested by taking the stage, playing a 35-minute instrumental version of "Eternal Flame", and storming off without saying a word or returning for an encore. Despite the controversy, that concert went on to become the most bootlegged recording in Egyptian history.

1668. Martin Denny's exotica records were banned in the United Kingdom due to an ancient public heath regulation that prohibited the importation of 'photographic and phonographic impressions of exotic avians'. Undeterred, Denny re-recorded his biggest hits for what was to be his Quiet Britannia LP, replacing his trademark parrot and toucan calls with the sounds of birds native to Britain (mostly finches). the cover photo depicted a sarong-clad Vera Lynn seductively straddling a tea table. the LP sold fewer than 500 copies upon its initial release but became a cult classic in the early '80s after John Peel played it in its entirely on Radio 1.

1669. in his final days, Sinatra requested that Comus's 'Drip Drip' be played at his funeral. nobody knows why.

1670. Michael Nesmith's mother is a notorious liar. Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that she was involved in the invention of Liquid Paper, and her other claims — inventing the staple remover, owning the Alamo, being Michael Nesmith's mother, and holding the Guinness World Record for largest natural breasts — are all patently false.

but she definitely holds the patentlys.

1671. Chuck Berry's original title for "Roll Over Beethoven" was "Rock Me Rachmaninov". Wanting to avoid any association with the Soviet Union or Russian composers in general, Berry changed the title and re-wrote the lyrics after the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

...wait, that doesn't even work, because he immediately goes on to say "sing Tchaikovsky the blues".

1668 is magnificent, wp unreg

1672. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma started out in the music business as the drummer in a NYC band that played nothing but blues covers of Beatles songs. He took up the cello in his spare time as a form of protest against being forced to play one too many Ringo Starr songs.

1673. Legendary British folk rockers Fairport Convention were originally named Airport Convention. The F was added mistakenly on the studio log for their debut album by engineer Bill Gates, and the name stuck.

He thought it was Chai-Kovsky

1674. there are more edits in the chorus of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' than there are in Radiohead's entire discography.

The 'RP' in RP Boo stands for 'received pronunciation'

1676. Khudai Khidmatgar – literally translated as "Children of God" – was an early 20th century Pashto movement working against Western colonialism in the Indian subcontinent. Its strict non-violent stance led to it being more allied with the Gandhi-associated National Congress than with the Jinnah-led Muslim League in the process of India and Pakistan's eventual emancipation from the British Empire.

Previous reports that Swans named their 1987 album for this movement are entirely (and obviously!) false. However (and equally obviously!), Kid Cudi of WZRD fame took his stage name from a playfully inverted and shortened version of the movement's name.

1677. "Besnard Lakes" is an anagram of "Barenaked Ladies".

1678. Electronic act Jlin is the hobby project of Fast & Furious director Justin Lin.

1679. Immediately prior to his death, Christopher Lee recorded a cover of his favourite Young MC track, “I Come Off” from 1989’s Stone Cold Rhymin’. Accompanying footage of the screen legend’s vocal takes was captured, with a view to releasing a music video he wished to be directed by either Gus Van Sant or Guy Ritchie (it was Lee’s firm stipulation that he be able to address the project director as ‘G’ during the editing process), but since his demise plans are already afoot for a Tupac-style hologram performance at an upcoming Glastonbury Festival. A final date for this spectacle has not yet been set, as organizers are reportedly “waiting to see if he remains dead” to avoid any legal imbroglio his unholy return may present.

1680. Taylor Swift and Willie Nelson are in fact brother and sister, respectively.

1681. The Ting Tings have been stuck with this insipid moniker since a Dublin promoter drew a blank while introducing them to a packed Whelan's during a late-2007 pilot gig. Their annoyance at this prompted the duo to replace the first song of their set with a 3 minute improvised musical tirade expressing their vexation, which was quickly to become one of their most widely known releases to date. The pair's original name, "Ceecy Munny", has since passed into obscurity with only one track entitled "demmo" (sic) credited to this name published to bandcamp.com by accident.

1682. The world record holder for "most Josh Groban records owned" for 2011 was reported in error by the Guinness Book as Marcel D'Eurre - it was actually Josh Groban, who easily triumphed by owning more than none.

1683. Lee Marvin's 1970 hit "Wand'rin' Star" is a whimsical, biographical retelling of how he came into being : the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. It is also notable for containing the second highest number of correctly-used apostrophes in a popular music title.

1684. Cutting Crew were so named because all of their members worked as therapists helping young people who self-harmed.

1685. Kisses was the name of Paula Abdul's dog.

1686: Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness) was a 1983 contestant on Canadian schoolkid game show Reach for the Top. Google it!

1687: For the past decade, Billy Idol has been making a decent living hosting musical riverboat cruises in Thailand.

1688. During the 1976 Test cricket series between England and the West Indies, noted cricket lover Mick Jagger made a brief and unplanned appearance for England. With three members of the England team incapacitated by diarrhoea on the second morning of the final Test at the Oval, Jagger was inveigled by the England coach into appearing as a substitute fielder – announced to the crowd under the old Stone songwriting pseudonym of Nanker Phelge. He was on the field for 27 minutes, touching the ball only once, dropping a catch offered by Viv Richards, who had scored 23 at the time. Richards went on to make 291.

1689. Mick had to endure quite a lot of good-natured ribbing from Keith for dropping that ball -- indeed, Keith changed his stage name back from Richard to Richards "in honour of that great near-triple-century".

1690. The Scorpions changed the title of "Rock You Like a Caravan" to appeal to the American market