101 Facts You Probably Never Knew About Music (part 2)
April 14, 2014Think you know a lot about the world of music or music trivia? I suggest you think again. We are glad to introduce to you some music facts that you probably never knew about. Whether they are useful or useless it doesn't really matter, as long as they are interesting and believe me, they are. So, let's dig in and learn 101 new music facts in 4 parts, just to let our brains the time to rest and recuperate. This is part 2...
26. Following his discharge from the US Army, Elvis Presley weighed 170lbs (77 kg). When he died in 1977, he weighed 260lbs (117 kg).
27. Meat Loaf supports English football team Hartlepool United.
28. Pharrell Williams, producer of Neptunes is a huge fan of Star Trek. Hence, his consistent use of the Vulcan salute in order to signify his label name, Star Trak.
29. The drummer who played on the definitive version of The Beatles' Love Me Do, Andy White, never earned more than his original session fee of 7 pounds from the track.
30. When Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers was young, some of his babysitters were Cher and Sonny Bono.
31. Steve Vai is an expert beekeeper and on top of that, he sometimes even finds time to lecture schoolchildren on the joys of apiary.
32. Since their inception, rock band Guns N' Roses have had no less than 21 full-time band members (and counting).
33. Delia Smith is an acclaimed UK cook and author, and was the one who baked the cake on the cover of "Let It Bleed", 1969 masterpiece by The Rolling Stones.
34. "Flowers In The Rain" by The Move was the 1st record ever played on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom.
35. The built-in MIDI ports on the Atari ST were included only because they were suggested by Atari boss, Jack Tramiel's son at the time of the computer design.
36. AC/DC's Black Ice tracks, "Anything Goes" and "Big Jack" use IK Multimedia AmpliTube software by Malcolm Young.
37. Jay-Z hasn't written any of his lyrics for more than a decade.
38. Brenden O'Brien, hard rock production guru plays Hammond organ on Bob Dylan's MTV Unplugged.
39. James Joseph Brown Jr. died on Christmas Day 2006, was meant to be named after his father Joe, but a mix-up on the birth certificate meant that Joseph became his middle name.
40. Timbaland has claimed to have the sounds from every drum machine which was ever made.
41. Ngethe Njoroge, a Kenyan and father of Tom Morello was the first ambassador of Kenya to the UN.
42. Chic's Le Freak was originally called Fuck Off. These were actually the words that were sung as the main hook, but they were later changed to Freak Out before the song was recorded.
43. Edward Van Halen's middle name is Lodewijk, named after composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
44. There is a rumor that Prince decided to pull The Black Album just before its release in 1987 because of a bad experience he had on Ecstasy.
45. The original name of The Chemical Brothers was The Dust Brothers. They had to change the name to The Chemical Brothers after the US production duo of the same name (The Dust Brothers) threatened to sue them.
46. Steven Van Zandt uses to wear a bandana in order to cover permanent loss of hair from a car accident. In this accident, he hit a windscreen with his head.
47. Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross recorded most of the vocal parts of their 1973 duets album in separate studios. Diana Ross was pregnant at the time and she was worried that Marvin's marijuana smoking would damage the health of her unborn baby.
48. One of the samplers in Propellerhead's Reason is called the NN-19. This is in tribute to Paul Hardcastel's 19, a 1985 hit which features stuttered samples as its name hook.
49. John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers once planned to audition for Frank Zappa, but that was until he found out about Frank's strict no drugs rule for his band. I guess there are some drugs you cannot live without, ah?
50. The famous and known synth motif from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was played on an APR 2500.
Ready to read and learn more interesting facts? Continue to part 3.
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