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

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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)

880. As a supporter of the anti-war movement, Michael McDonald had plans to record a protest-folk album for Reprise but scotched the project when a top-level exec suggested the title Kum Ba Yah Mo B There.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

881. In the early '70s, Gary Glitter and Gary Gilmore were in a short-lived band called The Garys. The Garys mostly played Manson covers and bubblegum pop, though their one, now-deleted album, Well, She Was Just Saying She Was Seventeen, featured "Rock and Roll, Parts One through Twelve."

― Drew LeDrew, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

aaron w, you're back!

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

882. Leslie Feist estimates she has keyed the cars of at least 27 different Suicide Girls.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

That's preposterous. Suicide Girls can't afford cars.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

883. Cheryl Tweedy is 947th in line to the English throne.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Thursday, 24 November 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

884. The Telescopes are keen amateur ornithologists. 'Silent Water' is, in fact, an exegesis of the need for stealth when observing water fowl.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

885. Killa Kela is Stephanie Cole's grandson.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 November 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

886. Audioslave.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

887. Buzz Osbourne from the Melvins owns a sheep farm in Cumbria.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

888. After the grunge thing ran its course, Tad Doyle pooled together his life savings to pay for what would be known as one of the first successful gastric-bypass surgeries in North America. He soon changed his name to Tad Friend, and is now best-known as the author of Lost in Mongolia and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 25 November 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

889. One of The Corrs appears in Lord of the Rings as the ring-wraith who stabs Frodo.

890. Van Morrison is a big Wipers fan, and often lifts lyrics from 'Youth of America' when performing 'Madam George.'

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Friday, 25 November 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

891. Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen has 20/10 vision and, as a teenager in Liverpool, was once approached to become a junior member of the RAF.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 25 November 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

892. Every morning, Anthony Kiedis wakes and thanks Jesus that he's not a communist.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 25 November 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

893. Inspired by Red Krayola's work with Art & Language, Huey Lewis and The News co-wrote Sports with the RAND Corporation.

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Friday, 25 November 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

894. Madonna's "Hung Up" is about William Hung.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 27 November 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

895. Keiji Haino has gills and a fin.

― Joe Bon Jonvi (Joe Bon Jonvi), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

896. The contracts rappers receive on signing to the Lowlife record label specify that their moneys are to be paid, instead of pounds sterling, in gift vouchers for the Nationwide kitsch toiletries range Lush. Jehst allegedly spent the advance for his new "Nuke Proof Suit" album on £10,000 worth of citrus bath bombs.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 November 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

J Mascis and Evan Dando are currently halfway through a 40 year experiment to find out who's least motivated, but chances are this experiment will never be completed

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Monday, 28 November 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

The song "Return the Gift" and Gang of Four's entire subsequent oeuvre are based upon Jon King's rage at being given an ugly pullover as a Christmas gift at age sixteen and not being able to exchange it at the shop

― malarkey, Monday, 28 November 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

897. The original title for famous 'Pet Sounds' was actually
'Cat Sounds' but because discussions between the members the final title was the all people know: 'Pet Sounds'. Many years after this, they resolve it with 'The M.I.U. Album'

― antonio, Monday, 28 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

898. Due to an adminstrative error The Neptunes regularly recieve royalty cheques for the track "March of the Gwladys Street Gladiators" on the 1996 album "Forever Everton: 22 Goodison Classics"

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

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