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

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

The 50 most amazing moments in pop history (that never actually happened)

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He only seems to know a certain number of bands.

1691. Taylor Swift's 1989 was named not in honor of her own birthday, but in honor of the 25th anniversary of Deee-Lite's World Clique. Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley provided the horn section for Shake It Off.

1692. The title of Daft Punk's "Around the World" comes from a friend of the group, who misheard the lyrics in the track's vocodered refrain. The actual lyrics are "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, reindeer".

1693. The members of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band were initially baffled when their debut album Gorilla was hailed as a "revolution in musical comedy," as they had intended to make a completely straightforward Canterbury Scene record. The group eventually reworked their songwriting style and spent the rest of their career putting out intentionally humorous material.

1694. A recent study found that 90% of all instances of cultural appropriation can be traced back to Sublime's 1992 album 40oz. to Freedom.

1695 "Fuck washing a hat" was dropped from "Lovesexy" at the last minute.

1696. Before becoming the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant was a lamaze coach- thus his frequent exhortations to "Push, push, yeah".

1697. "This Is The One" by The Stone Roses is a moving anthem to the Swedish giant Ikea and greets its first UK store in Warrington, North Cheshire.

1698. Eurovision winner "Making Your Mind Up" considers the possibilities of anal sex.

1699. Bangles and the Butthole Surfers did a one-off charity show together as the "Butt Bangles", were subsequently kicked off the stage after one song when Gibby Haynes urinated on a seal Seal.

1700. Arrival is a 2016 science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg and Tzi Ma. It is the story of a mysterious vessel, populated by apparently alien life forms, hovering just above the surface of Earth. After working for some time on communicating with the creatures aboard the vessel, the team of linguist Louise Banks (Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) are able to ascertain that what they're dealing with is ABBA in a helicopter.

1701. Rick Parfitt of Status Quo enjoyed an illustrious parallel career as an academical philosopher, using the lightly-modified name of "Derek Parfit" because of stipulations in the band's contract with their manager. To his and his family's astonishment, neither "Parfit"'s employer Oxford University nor the wider world ever caught up on the double life, and a few days after Parfitt's death on Christmas Eve 2016, the family had to make a separate announcement of "Parfit"'s death to avoid further confusion.

1702. Ariana Grande killed a man on the set of Victorious, but she wasn't convicted after her lawyers argued it was self-defence.

1703. The beige circle that cover's the woman's head on the cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is actually a close up shot of Robert Schneider's scrotum

1704. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is about a man afraid of getting a BJ from the sun.

1705. Lil Xan has always been a fierce opponent of benzodiazepine abuse. his stage name refers not to xanax but to xanthan gum, a thickening agent in his favorite condiment (Newman's Own Honey French Dressing)

Lil Wayne's father died in the boximg ring against a big Russian dude and was the inspiration for Apollo Creed

1706. Former Metal Church vocalist David Wayne is rapper Lil' Wayne's father.

1707. Gwen Stefani has been morbidly obese for her entire career. Her non-obsese twin sister, Newg, operates as her stand-in for all public appearances.

1708. The title of Playboy Carti's <i>Die Lit</i> is German academic jargon for <i>Die Literaturwissenschaft</i>.

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George was having a ball hanging out with Dylan and the Band in Woodstock in late '68
this post got me thinking: what did Dylan and the Band (and George) eat in Woodstock, and who was cooking?

please supply false trivia

Custard

balls

George Harrison's 1968 Thanksgiving dinner with Dylan and the Band in Woodstock so delighted him with the New World foods he'd never experienced that he was inspired to mutter "cranberry sauce" at the end of "Strawberry Fields." Some have questioned the chronology, but remember, the preponderance of Canadians meant they were celebrating Thanksgiving early.

"Hey Robbie, pass the I buried Paul."

"The what?!"

"Oh, um, I mean the cranberry sauce."

1691. Taylor Swift's 1989 was named not in honor of her own birthday, but in honor of the 25th anniversary of Deee-Lite's World Clique. Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley provided the horn section for Shake It Off.

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1710. Although 'We Are the World' is probably the best-remembered of the all-star charity singles released during the 1980s, the highest-selling of those singles remains 1987's 'Don't Gimme No Lip (I Need a New Hip)', which was released after the accident that tragically ended Frank Stallone's professional snowmobile racing career. The ensuing flood of lawsuits quickly made clear that the celebrities featured on the single had all been impersonated by Stallone.

1711. Damon Albarn's real name is Daniel Norman. Teased at school with the nickname Normal Dan, he started to call himself Dan Abnormal, then anagrammed it for his career with Blur.

1712. Robert Smith (of the Cure) is the incestuous love child of sibling rockers Patty Smith and G.E. Smith.

1713. Suede's rousing 2018 album closer "Flytipping" ("flytipping feels like just enough") is an admission that the boys found cowtipping far too strenuous.

As everyone knows, U2 guitarist The Edge's real name is Paul Hudson. In between U2 tours, he switches out his fake beard and silly hat for another silly hat and a long curly wig to play in a hard rock side-project. To complete the disguise, he swaps the P in his first name for an S.

(That's some pretty good fake trivia, m'man.)

Post Malone is actually Karl "Post" Malone who earned the nickname bc he be postin'

The inspiration for Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby" came at a late night comedy show. The MC came to the microphone holding an infant girl and asked whose it was, because they had found her unattended in the bathroom.

After repeated asks and no replies from the crowd, the MC angrily blurted "She's gotta be SOMEBODY'S baby!"

“Jack Antonoff” is a currently popular pseudonym used when a producer doesn’t want his/her name to be credited on a record.

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1704. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is about a man afraid of getting a BJ from the sun.

Either way, the song was the original inspiration for "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons"

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Chas Hodges kept up his session work throughout the 80s, as he believed Chas and Dave would never be a lasting concern. He can be heard (uncredited) on "Running Up That Hill" (bass), "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (mandolin), and "Voodoo Ray" (keyboards). Also the theme music to TV's "Juliet Bravo" (lead guitar).