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

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846. Wayne Jeffries was the mastermind behind the War of the Worlds album, but due to embarrassment at being associated with the project got his name reverse on the Album sleeve.

His sister Lynne did the same thing for a similar reason after forming ELO, but due to touring commitments had to also don a curly wig and false beard

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

847. Shed Seven were French.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

60. Marilyn Manson is actually the actor who played the nerd on the Wonder Years.

-- Kim (grimstitc...), July 11th, 2005.

Steve Winwood is Conan O'Brian's real father. (now i see it)
you people crack me up and the rony my name is paul too.

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

848. Nobody knows more than three lines of Coldplay Lyrics. In fact, the band doesn't know any of the lyrics. When Chris Martin is asked about them, he disapears at "the speed of sound."

― Lazy Guy, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

849. BBC Radio 2 DJ, Steve Wright's favourite band is Nurse With Wound

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

In 1996, the Mark Burgess of Chameleons UK brought a suit against Baltimore-area crust-hardcore band Chameleons UK, forcing them to change their name to Chameleons UK US.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

McFly's songs are all composed by genetically modified hamsters.

― Melissa Berrill (whateverkiddo), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

852. Art Neville and His Three Feet changed their name to The Meters after being given a $10,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to promote the metric system in America.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

835. Billy Corgan chose the members of Smashing Pumpkins based on their resemblance to the four leads in the hit television sitcom Golden Girls, with Billy of course being Sophia.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

836. German techno artist Wolfgang Voight has a terrible case of irritable bowel syndrome.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Chris Tucker sang back up on "Young Americans"

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Sunday, 6 November 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

My own submission, #538 is WRONG. I've recently discovered that Every Day is Like Sunday was actually about Morrissey's disappointment with the National Football League's growing commercialization and overexposure. My apologies.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 6 November 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

839. The term "desi" to describe British-Asian urban music is a sly reference to the fact that Bobby Friction has every episode of I Love Lucy on DVD.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

840. Stone Roses singer Ian Brown was born deaf in his left ear ... He lost hearing in his right ear at age nine.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

841. According to thesmokinggun.com website, some of the kooky backstage demands Stevie Nicks has made over the years includes one hundred pounds of zephyr dung, fruit-flavored Dynamints, and the blood of innocents.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

841a. The blood of innocents on tap, that is.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

842. MC Paul Barman is Barbra Streisand's son-in-law.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 7 November 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

843. As a reward for signing with 679, all of the Futureheads underwent surgery to have an extra arm attached. Annie received a similar bonus when she signed - a jaw bone made of cast iron.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

844. MF Doom was born wearing that mask.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

845. The baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind is Conor Oberst.

846. Paul McCartney's been lurking on ILM! And, inspired by a certain thread, is going to re-record an album's worth of Beatles tunes, all with the word "pants" replacing "love". ("All You Need Is Pants", "You've Got To Hide Your Pants Away", etc.) All proceeds from sales of the LP will be split between victims of the London bombings and Paul's personal "Legalize Hemp" campaign.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 7 November 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

847. The so-called "banned songs" list issued by Clear Channel post 9/11 was not due to any fear of upsetting or traumatising people in the aftermath of the WTC-attack. Instead, the idea was to "thin out" the playlist allowing for more time to play Condaleeza Rice's favourite ever song, "I'm Alive" by Flip and Fill. By November 2001, this song was being played over 3,000 times a day on US radio, and enjoyed a seven week stay at number one.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

848. As of Fall 2005, Axl Rose's long-awaited Chinese Democracy album will be an entirely new soundtrack to the 1979 Bob Fosse film All That Jazz.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

849. In an attempt to drum up publicity for their 1998 fundraising single 'Guardians Of The Land', the Countryside Alliance decided to try and start a war of words with Mansun, referring to Paul Draper as a 'small-cocked poof with the voice of a dyspeptic haemhorroid', and mockingly likening Dominic Chad's bass-playing to 'the second coming of Sid Vicious' talent'. However, this was swiftly quashed when it was discovered that Draper was engaged to Clarissa Dickson-Wright's niece.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

850. Rob Birch of the Stereo MC's has hollow legs. He often removes his left leg and holds it up to the ears of fans so they can hear the sea.

― cosmicthing (cosmicthing), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

851. Right Said Fred have been mired in litigation since 1992 when they were sued by Bernard Cribbins.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham recorded the theme to the Road Runner cartoons for Warner Brothers and used the money to buy a 1972 Dodge Dart. Stevie named the car Sara.

― Mumblix Grumph, Friday, 11 November 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

853. Kenny Chesney, Randy Travis, Hank Williams Jr. and all other Patriotic Country Music 'Sensations' in fact have served their country and can legitimately claim to be patriots. It was a Black Op Mission sent to destroy the Berlin Wall in 1995. They refuse to brag because the wall had been destroyed six years previous, Fox News apparently failed to report it.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 11 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

854. Lee Greenwood takes potshots at Mexicans crossing the border.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 11 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

855. The Beatles were profoundly influenced by the occultist Aleister Crowley. The song "Yesterday" was written in his honour on the day of his death.

― acb (acb), Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

260. Ralf Hutter can't program his VCR.

-- LRJP! (ell.arr.j...), July 12th, 2005.

"By holding down a special key, it tapes Where The Heart Is for me ..."

― coco, Saturday, 12 November 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

856. Respectable by Mel & Kim contains an uncleared sample from Vashti Bunyan's I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Saturday, 12 November 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

857: Beck got into Scientology not out of any legitimate ideological interest, but strictly to meet Isaac Hayes.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

858: RJD2's name originated from the first four digits of number he was given during his stint in Ohio state juvenile prison. His crime: severely beating a classmate after getting into an argument over whether Stevie Wonder was gay.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

859: Julian Casablancas has a brief cameo in The Royal Tenenbaums as one of the drivers who nearly hits a jaywalking Royal, Ari and Uzi in the "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard" montage.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

860. The Racing Post has a policy to have the majority of its greyhound racing tips provided by celebrities under a pseudonym. The naps for the past two weeks have been provided by Nichola Roberts and Sage Francis.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

861. Princess Grace of Monaco was secretly married to Peter Cox, lead singer of Go West.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Monday, 14 November 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

862. Hounded by quasi-legal strike action and rumors of accounting irregularities C + C Music Factory folded in 1993.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

863. Gillette have acquired the rights to use two minutes of John Coltrane's Ascension in their next advertising campaign.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

864. At the time of his death, GG Allin had the worlds largest Hummel figurine collection. They were his little treasures.

865. Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgance is the night manager of a Kinos. He insists it is just so he can have free access to the printer, because "printers ain't cheap, and I have a lot of shit to print".

866. Andrew WK has been dead for 7 years. What all of us saw several years ago was the revival of Andrew WK, but it was just not properly publicised.

867. In 1999, the Canadian government built a fake concert hall on a remote island off the coast of St. John, Newfoundland. The sole purpose of its construction was to get the band Econoline Crush to play there, and to never let them leave. What resulted was a 12 week battle royale, televised coast to coast, where the last surviving member of the band would be allowed to leave with his life. In the end, bassist Ken Fleming was proclaimed the winner, having killed and eaten two of his fellow band members to survive. To this day, it is still the highest rated program in Canadian television history.

― Doug Fisher (Infamous Amos), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

868. Inspired by Van Halen, the White Stripes have a contract clause demanding a backstage bowl of M&Ms with all but the red, white and black ones removed. If in England, or any other M&M-less commonwealth nation, Smarties may be substituted, but only after the tiny letter 'm' is hand-painted onto every single piece.

869. Inspired by his fellow Detroiters the White Stripes, Eminem has a contract clause demanding a backstage bowl of M&Ms, each piece of the candy adorned with a tiny white stripe.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

870. Elvis lives.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

871. Thom Yorke has Cotard's Syndrome.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 18 November 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

872. Re:837, if you log on to slsk at exactly 00:00:00, you can find early demos of this album. songs to look for include;

a) I am a rhombus
b) Justify my equation
c) New York = Disco Shitty

― danny boy, Friday, 18 November 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

873.. immediately following the release of the oliver stone 'Doors' movie in 1991, val kilmer bought up and subsequently destroyed all known original doors live footage, painstakingly refilming every Doors show scene for scene with those guys in the movie, So far no one has noticed.. when questioned.. val kilmer responded.. 'it just looks better, man..'

― G wolfcow, Friday, 18 November 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

874. Terminator X is the only member of Public Enemy to have ever actually cold lamped.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

875. When the Bay City Rollers stuck a pin on a map of the U.S. to choose their name, they actually landed on Frankenmuth, but the band didn't like the sound of the Frankenmuth Rollers.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

876. Brian Wilson's "Shine" is actually terrible. It got incredibly high reviews because he spent so long and worked so hard that all the reviewers felt bad for him. This was Wilson's plan all along.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 18 November 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

877. Try-too-hard Christmas number one hopefuls Nizlopi absolutely despise black people. "I thought it was hysterical when all those guys drowned in New Orleans" says frontman Luke Concannon.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

878. Freaky Zeeky has a Teeline Gold shorthand speed of over 200 words per minute.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

879. AJP Taylor's last essay before his death dealt with his thesis that if the D-Day landings had been unsuccesful, World War II would have continued until 1960 when, upon hearing "Cathy's Clown" by the Everley Brothers, both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler would have been so spellbound by its beauty that they would both become pacifists overnight.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

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