25 Interesting Music Facts You Probably Didn't Know About (part 2)
February 17, 2014Part 2 of the interesting and amazing music facts you probably didn't know about is here. Read, learn and enjoy...
1. Gene Simmons, the band member of Kiss has a tongue which is 7 inches long when most men have tongues which are 5 inches at most.
2. Rocker Sid Vicious died in 1979 after an overdose of heroin that was bought for him by his own mother. She was also present when he injected the heroin.
3. In 1999, Janis Joplin's former residence which is in San Francisco's Haight district was converted into a drug rehab center.
4. In 1982, Black Sabbath member then Ozzy Osbourne urinated on the Alamo. Ozzy was arrested and charged with defiling a national monument and was also banned from performing in San Antonio, Texas which was lifted eventually.
5. Frank Zappa started a pornographic movie production company in 1963. Zappa was arrested and jailed for sexual perversion a while later and the funny part is that his studio was actually located on the opposite side of the California court house.
6. Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and to protect him from the shame, he grew up believing his grandparents were his parents and that his actual mother was his sister.
7. When Pink Floyd played in 1970 in front of a large lake located at the Crystal Palace Bowl in London, they played so loud that a number of fish were killed.
8. Cher decided to end her marriage in 1979 with Gregg Allman he passed out in an Italian restaurant with his face first into a bowl of spaghetti.
9. Bill Wyman, the bassist of The Rolling Stones began a romantic relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith while he was 47 years old at that time. 6 years later they were married but the marriage lasted for 17 months only. If that's not crazy enough, Wyman's 30-year old son Stephen married Mandy's mother who was 46 years old at that time. This made Stephen the stepfather to his former stepmother, Mandy. Did we say crazy already?
10. Pink Floyd's acclaimed album, "Dark Side of The Moon" set a unique record of being 741 weeks on the Billboard's Hot 200 Album chart before falling off in October 1988.
11. Metal band Judas Priest were sued by the family of 2 young men, that claimed their children choke and beat one of their mothers, walked around town exposing themselves and stole money, all the result of listening to the Judas Priest album "Stained Class."
12. Pink Floyd's famous song "Another Brick In The Wall II" with its chorus of kids chanting "We Don't Need No Education", was banned by the government of South Africa because black who were upset about inferior education adopted this song as their anthem. In response the government said that the song was prejudicial to the safety of the state.
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