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

"Eye of the Tiger" is about Frosted Flakes

Koyaanisqatsi was originally scored by Keith Emerson, but copyright issues got in the way and Philip Glass was drafted in at the last moment to salvage the project.

Every member of Supertramp is named Roger.

The Magnetic Fields got their name from Black Sabbath's "Iron Man."

It’s actually from Dylan’s “Señor”

Ronnie James Dio is the father of Dido. She was extremely offended by heavy metal music due to a traumatic incident in her childhood where she fell off of a roller coaster while W.A.S.P. was playing in the background, and upset that her father wouldn't stop playing it despite earlier promises to retire. so she changed her last name to Dido, adding an extra "d" which stood for "deceitful".

"Thank You" is actually about Pat Boone, who made significant efforts to kill heavy metal by recording In a Metal Mood

former cure member laurence tolhurst, in a worldwide first, gained full copyright+licensing control over the abbreviation "lol" in the late 90s tech boom. every time someone somewhere uses the phrase, he gets paid roughly the same as when someone streams "let's go to bed."

Ronnie James Dio is the father of Dido

Dado

It’s pronounced Duncan Schick

“Lay Lady Lay” was written about Dylan’s pet chicken, Gertrude. The “big brass bed” lyric was originally “big brown egg.”

Avril Lavigne's demo of 'Complicated' began with the word 'chillax' (note the near rhyme with 'lay back'!), but her label persuaded her to change it to the more familiar 'chill out', as 'chillax' was then almost exclusively used by Canadian skateboarders. the rest of the world eventually caught up, and she's been singing the 'chillax' version in concert since about 2005

Avril Lavigne changed her name (from April Levine), to seem more exotically “Canadian” to US audiences.

After seeing Avril in concert for the 14th time, superfan Richard D. James composed a piano piece to commemorate the occasion.

Michelle Branch once attempted to eat Avril Lavigne

April Lasagne

Bovril Lebean

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Viva Allergin!

“Lay Lady Lay” was written about Dylan’s pet chicken, Gertrude. The “big brass bed” lyric was originally “big brown egg.”

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I long to fry you in the morning light

the original screenplay for purple rain was a kung-fu beat'em up/rockstar success story hybrid meant ro compete with _the last dragon_ the revolution travels to gary indiana and battles the jackson 5 -and, by proxy, mj- for supremacy in the r+b world. it involved a purple-laser shooting guitar and moonwalking! so much moonwalking!

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