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

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Rita Marley was ordered to pay the creators the Banana Splits $850,000
due to Bob unlawfully using the melody of their theme song in 'Buffalo Soldier'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

929 There exists an elegant mathematical proof that there cannot be a band called "Simply Red"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

930 Although John Lennon was killed, his music lives on in the Jurassic-Oolitic Limestone layer of the Earth's crust

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

931 "Indie" music is so-called because of a scandal in the 1978 World Cup when a team's mascot was tragically killed by a falling crate of fruit. The expression has been with us ever since.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

930 The Simply Red proof can of course be undermind by appeal to the Miles Hunt paradox.

― pscott (elwisty), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

933. 'Molly's Chambers' by Kings Of Leon was in fact an elaborate diss of Gomez, after the Southport bluesmen turned down a night on the town with the Kings.

This in itself would not have been so bad had the Kings not conducted a relentless campaign of taunts for the previous six months, primarily via the flickr account 'ottewellfearsthepunani' (account since deleted), whereby the Kings put up photoshopped photos of Gomez singer Ben Ottewell looking at FHM covergirls with the caption "Me no likey."

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards. Gomez then seized the instruments and jammed for the next 90 minutes straight, to a rapturous reception from the Danish fans. The Kings Of Leon have not shown their faces in Scandinavia since.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

934. Black musicians have been banned from appearing on "Later With... Jools Holland" ever since a June 1998 incident where a drunken Jurassic 5 set fire to the drummer from Lodger before chasing Jools around with a shovel they'd stolen from the Gardeners' World studio.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

934 On the subject of beards, only three fully-bearded bands have ever topped the UK charts, and in each case they were knocked off the top spot by synth duos with malevolent features!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

935. It's not people who are strange – it is YOU.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

936. When at a loose end while touring, Alizee occupies her time by recreating the legendary rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna on her Scalextric Monte Carlo set, using additional pieces to accurately recreate the Grand Prix circuits of the late 80's and early 90's. As you might expect, her personal favourite is their collision at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1988.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

The feud eventually culminated in Gomez interrupting the Kings Of Leon's set at the Roskilde festival by running onstage and beating them all unconscious, then setting fire to their beards.

936. This bit is copied off the official online histories of Gomez and The Kings of Leon, both of which assert in addition that "nobody noticed".

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

937!!! dammit

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 24 December 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

938. But who is Alizee's favourite all-time Grand Prix driver? No, it's not Prost. It's Patrick Tambay.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

939. The other members of The Strokes insist that Nikolai Fraiture stand on the end in band photos in the hope that some dozy photo editor accidentally crops him out of the picture.

940. Bernard Butler left Suede due to Brett Anderson's incessant impersonation of Blakey from 'On the buses'.

941.No way is Madonna too old to be wearing that outfit and bending over in the 'Hung up' vid.

942. Fiddy Cent is producing his own line of hippie fashion outfits. He hopes to get rich tie dyin'.

943. Kate Moss was a last minute stand in for The White Stripes' 'I just don't know what to do with myself' vid after Jo Brand pulled a hammy warming up.

944. Ringo and Paul have a new album out mid 2006. Rumour has it it's drum'n'bass.

945. Bobby Brown new album is due for release. It's titled "Whitney Houston, we have a problem".

946. Chris Martin didn't read the 'permanent marker' warning on his texta.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

947. Early pressings of 'You're so Vain' are now worth over $600 due to the missprinted songwriting credit of 'Carly's Hymen'.

― stu, Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

948. The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" was not actually about heroin, but rather was written by Hugh Cornwell as an homage to Altered Images lead singer Clare Grogan. Cornwell became obsessed with Grogan when both the Stranglers and Altered Images appeared on the same episode of Top of the Pops in early 1980.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 24 December 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

949. The international B'nai Brith organization once denounced Elvis Costello as a "self-hating Jew" who has never acknowldged his Jewishness.

950. The common picnic table was invented by a drugged and drunken Hank Williams, Sr. out of necessity, after his wife once locked him out of the house just before dinnertime.

951. #s 100, #200, #300 etc. on this thread are all in fact true.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 24 December 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

952. Jandek is so called because he once "decked" Jan Leeming in a nightclub brawl.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

953. Bono has the link to this list in his Favourite Places, and checks it every day. Every time he sees it, he cries a little.

― Melissa Berrill (whateverkiddo), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

954. Dana severed all contact with the music industry on September 17th this year, symbolically marking the occasion by placing a bet of €100 on Nadine Coyle being the first member of Girls Aloud to leave the group, at odds of 6-1.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 25 December 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

955. The most powerful man in the music industry is Bunny Wailer.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

956. 'Chinese Democracy' will not be an album. Axl Rose is set up in Manchuria, individually trying to spread democratic rights and individual freedoms in China since 1996. He's doing this because he was told that Perry Farrel successfully democratized the Ukraine, which in fact is, untrue.

― Lazy Guy, Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:16 (twenty years ago)

957. In his youth, Elvis Costello successfully held up a convenience store with a broken plastic comb.

― ohmyface (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

958. Ellen DeGeneres is Tom Petty's twin sister.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

959. Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt is the adopted son of actors Henry and (the late)Hoot Gibson, who were Hollywood's first married gay couple. They also invented the electric guitar.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

960. Rapper NAS got his stage name from the David Bowie lyric "He was the Nas, with god-given ass". His real name is Thelonius Fogerty.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

961. Those Reebok adverts where Jay-Z says "I got my MBA from the Marcy Projects" are a total lie. He actually graduated with a 2.1 in drama therapy from Herriot-Watt University.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

962. In March 2005, The Source magazine declared Leytonstone High Road Britain's "Most Hip Hop Train Station", narrowly beating Goodmayes and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

963. Andy McCluskey often edits posts from posters he doesn't like to include the "Goatse" image on the OMD website forum.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 7 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

964. The anus in the "Goatse" image actually belongs to Spike from late 90s boyband 911.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

965. I am going to murder the Mini Pop Kids. This is not a joke.

― Lazy Guy, Monday, 16 January 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

966. Punk was accidentally invented by a sufferer of tourette's syndrome, who is now morbidly embarrassed by what he started

― Dr X'O Skeleton, Monday, 16 January 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

The walrus was Ringo

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

968. Mark E Smith was actually born Marcus Quentin de L'Isle Adam, the son and heir of a merchant banking family in Weybridge, and was educated at Lancing College and Harrow. Aged 16 he ran away to Lancashire, where he fabricated a false identity.

― that's the triple truth ruth, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

969. While Glen Campbell's stint as a Beach Boy in the mid-'60s is well-known, less publicized was his brief tenure as touring vocalist for Sunn 0))) for several dates in 2004, when vocalists Wrest and Malefic were simultaneously stricken with bronchitis. Sunn 0))) guitarist Stephen O'Malley expressed interest in keeping Campbell on as a regular vocalist when the tour ended, but the rest of the band resisted the move on the grounds that Campbell's bellows were "too throaty" to fit in the context of the songs. As a gesture of goodwill, they are currently recording an album of Campbell covers, tenatively titled "By the Time I Get to Phoenix: the Songs of Glen Campbell."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

970. Every single Four Tops hit was exactly the same.

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

971. Einsturzende Neubauten's song "Abfackeln!" formed the basis for Britney Spears' hit "Toxic". Spears invited Blixa Bargeld to help remix the track, but he politely declined.

― Col Tom Blue, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

972. Professor Longhair, Mad Professor and Large Professor did a brief tour in 1993 as "The Three Tenureds"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 06:13 (twenty years ago)

973. Mama Cass died by choking on a ham sandwich.

974. Keith Relf died by playing the electric guitar in the bathtub and subsequently electrocuting himself.

― musically (musically), Sunday, 29 January 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

975. Simply Red are actually rather purple.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

976. Nobody has ANY idea as to singer Johnny Nash's current whereabouts.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 30 January 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

Macy Gray has long suffered from a mild case of elefantitis. She has recieved many accolades for her charity work in helping find a cure for the dreadful disease.

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 30 January 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

978. Prince's favorite color is orange.

― EngleDinckFanClubPrez, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

979. The lyric "Two multiplied by ten plus one / Romeo done" from So Solid Crew's smash hit single "21 Seconds" marks the first ever time in UK chart history that a song had contained a piece of correct mathematics. The closest anyone had gotten to factual numercial accuracy before was when in his hit "War Baby", Tom Robinson claimed that the square root of 325 was 15.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

ah, fake trivia thread. how i've missed you. happy valentine's day, love.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

980. The song 'Lone Ranger' by Quantum Leap contains the maori placename "Taumatawhakatangi
hangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu"

which, when translated, means "20 years from now this place will be crawling with Lord of the Rings obsessives"

― Sly and the Family Stallone (Sly and the Family Stallone), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

981. Lennon and McCartney wrote all their own songs.

― whatever (boglogger), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Authechre were the brains behind Jive Bunny and the Megamixers.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

983. Daniel Miller hasn't done any actual work at Mute since mid-2002, instead spending his time looking at porn and running a "worked" MMA federation on the company's dollar. Workers within this illicit second venture have expressed frustration at Miller's haphazard booking style and insistence on using Fad Gadget songs for all entrance music.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

984. KT Tunstall's rider consists of a large pot of Marmite.

― whatever (boglogger), Saturday, 18 February 2006 07:35 (twenty years ago)

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