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

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

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>.

argh bb sorry

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