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Äàëè çíàåâòå äåêà... Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than it's army. Jimmy Page's first session job for the Decca Label was the recording of "Diamonds" by Jet Harris & Tony Meehan, which went to Number 1 on the singles chart in 1963. Madonna was protected by 10,000 soldiers and riot police at her Moscow concert after the Russian Orthodox Church staged protests against her self-crucifixion stunt, which has become an infamous part of her Confessions tour. (September 15, 2006). Guitar probably comes from the word kithara, which was the principal stringed instrument of the ancient Greeks and later of the Romans. The kithara was played with a plectrum, it was a larger and stronger form of the lyre. As of 2005, Queen albums have spent a total of 1,422 weeks or 27 years on the UK album charts; more time than any other musical act including The Beatles and Elvis Presley. While pregnant, Madonna had cravings for peanut squash and sticky toffee pudding; Mel B had cravings for peanut butter, cheesecake, ice-cream and chips, while her former band mate Victoria just craved for gerkins. In 1987, Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, followed by The Supremes in 1988. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham! was inspired by a sign Andrew Ridgeley used to put on his bedroom door for his mum to wake him before she went to work; it was also Wham's first US hit. The singing voice of Lauren Bacall, in her screen debut, 'To Have And Not Have' was dubbed by Andy Williams .. when he was a teenager. In 1957, Disc Jockey Al Priddy of KEX, Portland, Oregon, was fired for violating the radio station's ban against playing Elvis Presley's rendition of "White Christmas." After hearing reports that many U.S. radio stations had banned Elvis' Christmas album because of their shock over "the Pelvis" singing religious songs, DJ Allen Brooks of CKWS in Kingston, Ontario, played the entire album and invited listeners to call in their opinion. Of 800 callers, only 56 disapprove of Presley's sacred music. The Eurythmics have appeared on BBC's 'Top Of The Pops' 25 times, starting with 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)' on February 24th 1983 to '17 Again' on January 20th 2000 On the 1977 Emerson, Lake and Palmer tour, there were 63 roadies , including a karate instructor for Palmer and their own doctor. It was also rumored they had a "carpet roadie," whose job was to transport and sweep the Persian rug Lake stood on during the concerts. They also used a 70 piece orchestra. Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi introduced the "Rock Hand Symbol" of the two middle fingers and thumb in to the palm of the hand and the pinky and index finger out. He said that his Grandmother used to use it by pointing at her eyes with it and pointing back at him. He considered it giving someone the "Evil Eye" and decided to use it for Black Sabbath as a symbol to "Rock On." Rock band Van Halen had a provision in their contract demanding M&Ms backstage with the brown ones removed. This was a way of seeing if the promoters read the contract. If they saw brown M&Ms, they knew there would be problems with the show. Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones, played oboe on "Baby You're A Rich Man" by the Beatles. Before becoming Elvis Presley's agent, Colonel Tom Parker ran a troupe of dancing chickens. January 2002, George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" replaced Aaliyah's "More Than A Woman" at #1 - the only time that a deceased artist has taken over from another deceased artist at #1 Paul Bruce Dickinson (who went by the name Bruce Bruce before joining Iron Maiden) released a single with Rowan Atkinson in the UK. It was a cover of Alice Cooper's "(I Want to Be) Elected," and the artists wwere credited as "Mr. Bean and the Smear Campaign". Aerosmith Steve Tyler's daughter, Liv, was born in 1976 to Bebe Buell, a legendary groupie who also had affairs with Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, and Todd Rundgren. She told Liv that Rundgren was her father, and Liv didn't find out the truth until she was 11. Neil Sedaka played piano on Bobby Darin's hit "Dream Lover". When Elvis Presley was inducted into the US Army on March 24th, 1958, Uncle Sam started losing an estimated $500,000 in lost taxes for each year that Private Presley served. Billy Joel played piano on The Shangri-Las' "Leader Of The Pack" (1964). Iron Butterfly's hit "In A Gadda Da Vida", was originally called "In The Garden of Eden". Singer Doug Ingle, was so trashed on LSD one rehearsal that it came out "In A Gadda Da Vida", and the band decided that was a better name for the song. The MGs were the backup band for Otis Redding when he recorded "Dock Of The Bay" in 1967. The famous whistling in the third verse of that song was something Redding did to fill time until he could fill it in with some words. He never had the chance, he died in a plane crash 3 days later. Pink Floyd were the first band to use a quadraphonic sound system at their concerts. Using 4 different channels of audio, it was an early version of surround sound. The dinosaur, Cryolophosaurus, was at one point informally known as the Elvisaurus, due to the resemblance to Elvis Presley's pompadour haircut in the 1950s. During their 30 odd year career, Black Sabbath have had 29 different members. Michael Jackson was just five years old when the Jackson Five played their first professional gig. Their fee for the night was only eight dollars, but they collected over one hundred dollars in money tossed on the stage. The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument. Leo Sayer had a Brighton (UK) Bus named after him. It ran on Metro Line 7 from September 1999 until April 2004 when bus was sold. In 2000 George Michael paid £1.45m for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote 'Imagine.' Each KISS member represents a character. Simmons is The Demon, Frehley is The Spaceman, Stanley is The Star Child, Criss is The Cat, and Carr was The Fox. Vincent briefly wore makeup with an Ankh design in his early concerts with the group. Cynthia 'Plaster' Caster, a groupie became famous for making plaster cast's of rock star's penises and breasts. Clients include Jimi Hendrix and members from MC5, Television, The Kinks and various road managers. In 1955 an unsuccessful bid to change copyright laws that would prohibit white artists from singing R&B cover tunes was proposed to U.S. Congress by singer, LaVern Baker. You can sing the chorus of the Beach Boys "Surfing USA" along with Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen". Frank Sinatra used to referred to "Something" as his favorite Lennon-McCartney song. However, it is a George Harrison composition. Themes from Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by Clint Eastwood. Bob Dylan's first professional performance was as opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City in New York, 1961. The Star-Spangled Banner became the US national anthem in 1931. Prior to that, it was My Country 'Tis of Thee," which had the same melody as Britian's national anthem God Save the Queen, which is based on music written by John Bull in 1619. In 1979, Judy Garland's false eye lashes were sold at auction for $125 John Lennon sang into a condom-covered microphone to protect himself from electric shocks while trying to achieve an underwater sound for The Beatles hit "Yellow Submarine," but they never used the zany recording. Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker covered all bases by selling both "I Love Elvis" buttons as well as "I Hate Elvis" buttons. Louis Armstrong's nickname Satchmo was an abbreviation of "satchelmouth," a joke on the size of his mouth... He was also nicknamed Gatemouth, Dippermouth, Dip & Pops. Cockney Rebel bass player Paul Jeffreys was one of the 270 passengers on flight 103 killed by a terrorist bomb when the plane crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. Sex Pistol John Lydon and his wife, Nora missed the flight because his wife hadn't packed in time. The Four Tops also had been booked onto the flight returning to the States for Christmas but missed it after a recording session over ran. About 2,4 billion CDs are sold annually and the number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been equalled. Around one-third of recorded CDs are pirated. Peter Hogman (The Dimensions) played the harmonica solo on Millie's hit "My Boy Lollipop", Chris Blackwell had brought Jamaican singer Millie to London to record under the direction of guitarist Ernest Ranglin and members of The Dimension. Ex Spice Girl Emma Bunton played one of the bridemaids who were catapulted onto a giant wedding cake in a Halifax Building Society TV commercial. Former S Club 7's Tina Barret appeared in the same advert. Elton John's original name was Reginald Kenneth Dwight. The name Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, British R&B singer and founder of Blues Inc. Eventually, he made Elton Hercules John his legal name. Hercules was the name of the horse in the British comedy series Steptoe and Son. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen contains the famous "mamma mia, mamma mia, mamma mia let me go" line. It was knocked off the No.1 position on the UK chart by Abba's 'Mamma Mia' (January 1976). In a 1997 TV interview Mick Jagger attributed the original classic design of the Stones' tongue logo to John Pasch, not Andy Warhol as often misquoted. According to producer George Martin, the 60's Batman TV theme tune inspired George Harrison of the Beatles, to write the hit song "Taxman". "No Woman No Cry", Bob Marley's first hit was released as a single from his album, Live!, which was recorded at the Lyceum in London in 1975. Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the group the year before this was released. They were upset at the way Bob Marley was given top billing. In the classic 1966 French film "Masculin-Feminin", the protagonist reads a headline from a French newspaper saying, "Qui etes-vous Bob Dylan?" This means, "Who are you, Bob Dylan?" Previous to April 1966, David Bowie had recorded under the name of David Jones and The Lower Third. Elvis' favourite collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in. Also he was an avid gun collector. His collection of 40 weapons included M-16s and a Thompson submachine gun. Mick Jagger wrote the song "Wild Horses" for Marianne Faithfull. Iggy Pop, Mick Fleetwood and David Soul have each guested in in "Star Trek". The first video to premier on MTV was " Video Killed The Radio Star" by Buggles on August 1st 1981. The most aired video in MTV's history is Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". The term "Blue Note", usually associated with the famous jazz record label, in fact refers to the diminished fifth - the basic building-block chord of the blues. When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary singer Billie Holiday. The first Gibson double neck/twin neck guitar to be imported to the UK was a white solid mahogony Gibson 1275 Twin Neck, ordered in 1963 by guitar virtuoso Frank White, it took a year to arrive from the states. Frank played successfully with it for 20 years. It is now owned and played by guitar virtuoso Phil Brodie of Bitter Suite. AC/DC were featured on the front cover of the first issue of Kerrang Magazine, launched in 1981. Ladies and gentlemen, please, Elvis has left the building. Now if you'll just return to your seats, we'll go on with the show.' It was on December 15, 1956 at the Hirsh Coliseum in Shreveport that Horace Logan coined this well-known Elvis phrase, will trying to calm the uncontrollable crowd at one of his famous "Hayride" shows. John Lennon met Yoko Ono the first time the night before one of her performing-art exhibitions at the Indica Gallery, London, as she was setting up. (Nov 8th 1966) John and the rest of the band were friends with the owners of the Indica. Madonna has MP (standing for Madonna's Property) and Marilyn Monroe's face tattooed on her bottom. The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year. It was at a concert in Minneapolis in 1954 that Al Dvorin first closed Elvis's concerts with: "Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night." The set on which Rick Nelson appeared in the TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, was an exact copy of the Nelson's real Hollywood home. Axl Rose [Guns 'n' Roses] used to earn $8 an hour for smoking cigarettes; for a science experiment at UCLA. Elvis Presley once entered an Elvis look-a-like contest in a US burger bar and only came 3rd!! The band Wild Cherry, who had a number one disco hit with "Play That Funky Music" in 1976, took their name from a box of cough drops. Hendrix claimed 'Purple Haze' was inspired by a dream where he was walking under the sea. In the dream, he said a purple haze surrounded him, engulfed him and got him lost. It was a traumatic experience, but in his dream his faith in Jesus saved him. At one point, Hendrix wrote the chorus as "Purple Haze, Jesus Saves," but decided against it. Nazareth, took their name from a line in The Band's song "The Weight." Originally back in 1958, Berry Gordy Jr. wanted to name his record label "Tammy" after Debbie Reynold's hit single, but the name was taken, so he settled for the name Tamla. The musicians who backed The Chiffons on their 1963 #1 hit "He's So Fine" were all members of The Tokens, who had scored their own chart topper with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1961. In 1958 Fan's of rock and roll music were warned that tuning into music on the car radio could cost you more money. Researchers from the Esso gas company said the rhythm of rock and roll can cause the driver to be foot heavy on the pedal, making them waste fuel. In 1961 Britains' BBC Radio banned the song "100 Pounds of Clay" by Gene McDaniels because it has a reference to women being created from building materials, which the network considered to be blasphemous! At the same time that Ringo Starr received an offer from Brian Epstein to join the Beatles, he was also asked to join another Liverpool group called Kingsize Taylor and The Dominoes. Ringo chose the one offering the best wage ... 25 pounds a week! After Jan Berry of Jan and Dean was seriously injured in a car accident on April 12, 1966 and could no longer perform, his partner Dean Torrence formed a graphics design company that was responsible for over 200 album covers. He won a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover of the Year in 1972 for the LP "Pollution" by the group of the same name. 62 hit Stranger On The Shore's, Mr. Aker Bilk, learned to play the clarinet while he was in prison. He had been sentenced to three months in jail after falling asleep while on guard duty for the British Army in Egypt. Frank Sinatra once called Rock and Roll "The most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear." When she was just four years old, Gladys Knight won first prize on TV's Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. During a gig at a David Bowie Ziggy Stardust tour in Glasgow Scotland. 6 fans, who arrived at the venue in wheel chairs, amazingly sprang to their feet as David and group took the stage! Led Zeppelin played Staiway To Heaven for the first time in Belfast on March 5, 1971. John Paul Jones said the audience was not impressed. They wanted to hear something they liked - like "Whole Lotta Love." Alanis Morissette appeared on the talent show Star Search in 1989 (where she performed a version of the Osmonds' "One Bad Apple") but lost to a singing cowboy named Chad. The Animals 1964 single 'House Of The Rising Sun' was the first Number 1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes. On his debut album 'For You' Prince played 27 different instruments. The title of Phil Spector's song by The Teddy Bears, 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' was taken from the inscription on Spector's father's tombstone. Keith Richards favourite drink is called 'Nuclear Waste'. Vodka with orange, Fanta and cranberry juice. I Fought The Law' a hit for The Clash was written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets. Elvis Presley made only one television commercial, an ad for "Southern Maid Doughnuts" that ran in 1954. In Sept 1974 Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones entered a Swiss Clinic to have his blood cleaned [in a form of dialysis] to get him off heroine quickly, to complete a European tour. The group Spandau Ballet got their name from a peice of graffiti seen by Robert Elms on a Berlin Loo wall. A concert promoter in Hawaii sold a thousand tickets to a Spice Girls concert. Unfortunately the concert was never scheduled. The man was arrested and told police he needed the money for a nose job and a sex change. Bryan Adams took a picture of The Queen of England that was used on a Canadian stamp. Country singer Waylon Jennings was a guitar player in Buddy Holly's backup band. He gave up his plane seat to J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) just moments before it took off. The plane crashed, killing all on board, including Buddy Holly. Barry Manilow was once a page boy at CBS and was later Bette Midler's musical director. Before having his first hit record, Barry earned a living writing commercials, including the jingles for State Farm Insurance , Band Aids, Stridex, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dr. Peper, Pepsi, and McDonalds. While playing in front of a large lake at the Crystal Palace Bowl in London in 1970, Pink Floyd played so loud, a number of fish were killed. In 1996, Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce, which coincidentally is what "Ringo" means in Japanese. Telma Hopkins of Tony Orlando and Dawn, is the voice you hear on Issac Hayes' song "Shaft", that tells him, "Shut your mouth". James Brown's wife tried to get her traffic tickets dismissed because of "diplomatic immunity" in June of 1988. She claimed her husband is the official "ambassador of soul". She lost the case. The first record to sell a million copies was "Chattanooga Cho-Cho" by The Glen Miller Orchestra in 1942. When Steve Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in the summer of 1967, one of the rejected applicants to be auditioned was a young piano player named Reginald Dwight, who would later launch a solo career, re-naming himself, Elton John. Throughout their career, Ringo received far more fan mail than any of the other Beatles. The lead vocal of the Beach Boys hit, "Barbara Ann" was actually sung by Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean. Despite all of the hits that they've had, The Who have never had a number one record in the UK or the US. Martha Reeves later of The Vandellas 1st worked at Motown Records as a secretary. Her duties included supervising a very young Stevie Wonder. Among those who sang the chorus of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" were Marianne Faithful, Graham Nash, Jane Asher, Patti Boyd, Keith Moon and Mick Jagger. David Lee Roth's 1985 #12 hit "Just A Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody", originally charted at the #1 spot in 1931 by jazz artist Ted Lewis. "The Chipmunks", Alvin, Simon and Theodore were named after executives at Liberty Records by their creator, Ross Bagdasarian, who used the stage name, David Seville. Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson once had a giant sandbox built around his piano, so he could feel the sand beneath his feet for song writing inspiration. Gene Simmons of Kiss has a tongue that is seven inches long, two inches longer than most men. Steppenwolf's lead singer, John Kay , made a perilous midnight escape from post-war East Germany when he was a child. The first CD pressed in the United States for commercial release was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA.". At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the union only lasted seventeen months. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother, Mandy. Shock Rocker, Alice Cooper was once elected Homecoming Queen for the University Of Houston. Chuck Berry holds a degree in cosmetology. Petula Clark's hit, "This Is My Song" was written by movie actor Charlie Chaplin. Roy Orbison's trademark look came about when he misplaced his regular glasses and had to rely on a pair of prescription sun-glasses. His management liked the mysterious look it gave him and soon, they were the only ones he wore. The piano player on Art Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" is Larry Knechtel of the group "Bread". At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life," an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his old English sheepdog "Martha". Jimi Hendrix was thrown out of high school for holding the hand of a white girl in class. Even though he has recorded some of the most memorable rock and roll classics, the only gold record that Chuck Berry ever received was for "My Ding-a-ling". The original Eagles, Glen Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon first met when they were members of Linda Ronstadt's backup band. Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist. When Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" finally fell off of Billboard's Hot 200 Album list in October 1988, it had set a record of 741 weeks on the chart. "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" the 1960 hit for Elvis Presley was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926 as a vaudeville recitation and first recorded by Al Jolson. The first group to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were The Coasters. More than 2,500 cover versions of The Beatles' "Yesterday" exist, making it the most recorded song in history. Barry Manilow's hit, "I Write The Songs" was actually written by Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys. Glen Frey of the Eagles played rhythm guitar on Bob Seger's "Ramblin', Gamblin' Man. EMI stands for Electrical & Musical Instruments. Puff Daddy/P Diddy throws away his trainers after wearing them for just one day. When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed the song "Hey Jude," to cheer Julian up. Over 400 musicians applied for a part in The Monkees, including Stephen Stills, John Sebastian and Harry Nilsson. The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. Sonny and Cher were initially known as Caesar and Cleo. To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States. Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931). Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented. The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980. About 2,4 billion CDs are sold annually. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal. About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated. The Star-Spangled Banner became the US national anthem in 1931. Prior to that, it was My Country 'Tis of Thee," which had the same melody as Britian's national anthem God Save the Queen, which is based on music written by John Bull in 1619. Bull's melody has been used more than any song in national anthems. The British anthem was performed the most times in a single performance. In 1909, while waiting for King Edward VII who was getting dressed a German band played the anthem 17 times. Tap dancing originates from Irish clog dancing and what is called the Irish reel and jig. It was at a concert in Minneapolis in 1954 that Al Dvorin first closed Elvis's concerts with: "Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night." Elvis favourite collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in. Elvis was an avid gun collector. His collection of 40 weapons included M-16s and a Thompson submachine gun. Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella. Bob Dylan's first professional performance was as opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City in New York, 1961. Before they were known as Journey, Steve Perry called his band Golden Gate Rhythm Section. Kenneth Edmonds was nicknamed Babyface by funk guitarist Bootsy Collins. The world's largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records. In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world record by disco dancing for 408 hours. Lebanon is the top movie-going country - 35,3 movies per person p.a. China is second with 12,3, followed by Georgia (5,6), India (5), Iceland (4,5), Australia is 6th at 3,9 then New Zealand and the US at just under 3,9. The US has the most cinemas (23,662) while India [the country that produces the most movies - about 800 a year, twice as many as Hollywood] has about 9,000 cinemas and China has approximately 5,000 cinemas. - 300,000 people per cinema. Indian comic actress Manorama has played the most leading roles of any performer in movie history. She began her career in 1958 and in 1985 had appeared in her 1,000th movie. Ireland has won the most Eurovision song contests (7 times). Annie Lennox holds the record for the most Brit awards (8). The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the US (106 million), followed by Garth Brooks second (92 million), Led Zeppelin (83 million), Elvis Presley (77 million), and the Eagles (65 million). Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records. Klezmer music is derived from two Hebrew words, clay and zimmer, meaning "vessel of music." The Ocarina, a musical wind instrument, is also known as the Sweet Potato. The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year. The longest song to reach number one on the Billboard charts on LP was "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meatloaf, the shortest: "Stay" by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. At the first Grammy Awards, held on 4 May 1959, Domenico Modugno beat out Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee for the Record of the Year, with "Volare." More The British, the highest per capita spenders on music, buy 7,2% of the world music market. The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975. The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha. Jeanne Louise Calment's CD was released on her 121st birthday in 1996. Titled "Time's Mistress" it features Ms Calment reminiscing to a score of rap music and other tunes. A grand piano can be played faster than an upright (spinet) piano. A piano covers the full spectrum of all orchestra instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo. The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument. The term "disc jockey" was first used in 1937. The last note of a keyboard is C. Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by Clint Eastwood. The US share of the world music market is 31.3%. The only guy without a beard in ZZTOP surname (last name) is Beard. Since its launch in 1981 the song Memory of the musical Cats has been played on radio more than a million times. Paul McCartney was the last bachelor Beatle when he married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London, 1969. Paul's brother Mike was his best man. No other Beatle attended the wedding. There are 6 versions of Franz Schubert's "Die Forelle" ("The Trout"), simply because when friends asked him for copies of the song, he wrote out new copies to the best he could remember at the time. In 1952, John Cage composed and presented ' 4'33" ', a composition consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. The Carpenters signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank. In 1972 Leslie Harvey of Stone the Crows died after being electrocuted onstage in England. In 1976 Keith Relf, who used to play for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted by his guitar while playing in his basement. During a mid-performance in 1994 Ramon Barrero, a Mexican musician famous for playing the world's smallest harmonica, inhaled the harmonica and choked to death. U2 was originally known as Feedback. To date, U2 have sold more than 70 million records, grossing $1,5 billion. In May 1997, Paul McCartney broke his own world record by obtaining his 81st gold disc. Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion. The top selling singles of all time are Elton John's "Candle in the Wind '97", at 33 million, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas", 30 million, and Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", 25 million. DVD discs are the same diameter (120mm) and thickness (1.2mm) as a Compact Disc but a DVD can store 13 times or more data. Beethoven was the first composer who never had an official court position, thus the first known freelance musician. Born in 1770, he grew up poor, but published his first work at age 12. By age 20 he was famous. He often sold the same score to six or seven different publishers simultaneously, and demanded unreasonably large fees for the simplest work. He was short, stocky, dressed badly, didn't like to bath, lived in squalor, used crude language, openly conducted affairs with married women, and had syphilis. Beethoven was deaf when he composed his Ninth Symphony. The Motown female group The Supremes, which dominated the pop charts in the 1960's, was originally called The Primettes. According to Margaret Jones, author of a Patsy Cline biography, there are a dozen places in Virginia that could claim to be the hometown of the nomadic Cline. Her family moved 19 times before she was 15. When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, Jimmy Page was left to honor the band's commitments, performing as The New Yardbirds. The group eventually evolved into Led Zeppelin. At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa. The brass family of instruments include the trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, flügelhorn, French horn, saxhorn, and sousaphone. While they are usually made of brass today, in the past they were made of wood, horn, and glass. Most toilets flush in E flat. The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair. According to Beatles producer George Martin, Neal Hefti's catchy composition of the 1960's "Batman" Emmy-winning theme song inspired George Harrison to write the hit song "Taxman." At the tender age of 7, the multi-award-winning composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch ("The Way We Were," "The Sting") was one of the youngest students ever admitted to the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York City. In the band KISS, Gene Simmons was "The Demon", Paul Stanley was "Star Child", Ace Frehley was "Space Man", and Peter Criss was "The Cat. The song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was written by George Graff, who was German, and was never in Ireland in his life. The famous Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin was also a respected chemistry professor in St. Petersburg. In 1992, Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known to country music fans as singer/comedienne Minnie Pearl, was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George Bush. In 1994, Minnie became the first woman to be inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. She was too frail and sick to attend the ceremony, and so good friend and comedian George Lindsey ("Goober") accepted the award for her. She died in 1996 at age 83. Bill Haley and the Comets, one of rock and roll's pioneer groups actually began their career's as Bill Haley's Saddle Pals - a country music act. The voice of Tony the Tiger is Thurl Ravenscroft, who also sang the "Rotten Mr. Grinch" song in the movie, "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". He was also narrator for Disney's "A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion" album. He performed for many Disney attractions including: voice of Fritz the parrot in "The Enchanted Tiki Room, " lead singer in "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in the Haunted Mansion, narrator on Monorail. He was the voice for the Disneyland LP based on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride. The flip side of this LP contained a number of sea chanties he sang. In 1939 Irving Berlin composed a Christmas song but thought so little of it that he never showed it to anybody. He just tossed it into a trunk and didn't see fit to retrieve it until he needed it for a Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire movie, HOLIDAY INN 10 years later. Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years. Brian Setzer, of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, started out in a garage band called Merengue. "Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison. The horse's name in the song Jingle Bells is Bobtail. No one knows where Mozart is buried. The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style. Tommy James was in a New York hotel looking at the Mutual of New York building's neon sign flashing repeatedly: M-O-N-Y. He suddenly got the inspiration to write his #1 hit, 'Mony Mony' Tickets for Frank Sinatra's first solo performance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City in 1942, sold for 35 cents each. Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", which extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs. The Granny Smith apple was used as the symbol for the Beatles' Apple Records label. Verdi wrote the opera Aida at the request of the khedive of Egypt to commemorate the opening of the Suez canal. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday". John Lennon named his band the Beatles after Buddy Holly's 'Crickets.' The Beatles played the Las Vegas Convention Center in 1964. Some 8,500 fans paid just $4 each for tickets.
"When I'm Sixty Four" was the first song to be recorded for the Sgt. Pepper album. "Within You Without You" was the last. Jazz began in the 20th century, when bands in New Orleans began to apply the syncopated rhythms of ragtime to a variety of other tunes. In the first days of jazz, ensemble playing was emphasized. Only gradually did jazz come to be based on improvised solos. The song with the longest title is 'I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues' written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke. Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums. The Beatles appear at the end of "The Yellow Submarine" in a short live action epilogue. Their voices for the cartoon movie were done by Paul Angelis (Ringo), Peter Batten (George), John Clive (John), and Geoffrey Hughes (Paul). When the producers approached the Beatles about this film, the group, which hated the TV cartoon show of them, agreed to it only as a easy way of completing their movie contract. As such, they contributed only a few old songs and four quickly produced numbers, Only a Northern Song, Hey Bulldog, All Together Now, and It's All Too Much. However, when they saw the finished film, they were so impressed by it that they decided to appear in a short live action epilogue to the film. Peter Batten was a deserter from the British Army at the time of the creation of the film. In the final weeks of production, he was arrested for desertion, and Paul Angelis had to finish voicing the part of George. In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) did there was at least one song about rain. The Beatles song 'A day in the life' ends with a note sustained for 40 seconds. Memory," has become a contemporary classic. It's been recorded more than 600 times, including as international hit recordings for such artists as Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow and Judy Collins, among many others. It's most recent incarnations underline its diverse and universal appeal: as a #1 dance smash by European chanteuse Natalie Grant, and as a duet for Placido Domingo and Natalie Cole during a live telecast of the tenor's world tour. Elvis Presley's hit recording of "Love Me Tender" entered Billboard's pop charts in October 1956. It stayed on the charts for 19 weeks, and was in the Number 1 spot for five of those weeks. The song, from Presley's debut film with the same title, was adapted from the tune "Aura Lee," which had been written back in 1861. An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as the little man of Nuremberg, played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall. Montgomery is the birthplace of music great Nat King Cole, pop singers Clarence Carter and Toni Tenille, Metropolitan Opera singer Nell Rankin, and blues legend Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton. Beethoven's Fifth, was the first symphony to include trombones. EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments'. The only musical instrument you play without touching it is called the theremin. The technology is simple: when activated, the theremin generates a sonic field around a small antenna that sticks out vertically from the top. When you put your hand closer to the antenna, the sound field is broken and the unit emits a high-pitched, electronic wail-that's the music. Different varieties of pitch are achieved by placing your hand closer to the antenna and moving it away. When your hand approaches the antenna, a low pitch will be created. As your hand gets nearer the antenna, the pitch becomes higher. (It's easily recognized for its spooky "ooo-eee-ooo" sound. You know it if you've heard the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations.") Brian Epstein, a record store owner in London, was asked by a customer for a copy of the record, "My Bonnie", by a group known as The Silver Beatles. He didn't have it in stock so he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group. He signed to manage them in a matter of days and renamed them The Beatles. In 1976 Rodrigo's 'Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error. George Anthiel composed film scores, but earlier in his life he had been an avant garde composer. In 1924 his "Ballet mecanique" was performed at Carnegie Hall. The work was scored for a fire siren, automobile horns, and an airplane propeller. After only a few minutes of this racket, an aging gentleman in the orchestra seats tied his handkerchief to his cane and began waving a white flag. The Beach Boys formed in 1961. The Beatles performed their first U.S. concert in Carnegie Hall. Brian Epstein managed The Beatles to superstardom. The leading female singer in an opera is called the prima donna. Elvis Presley received his U.S. army discharge on March 5, 1960. Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album called "Lie." Vaudevillian Jack Norworth wrote "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in 1908 after seeing a sign on a bus advertising BASEBALL TODAY - POLO GROUNDS. Norworth and his friend Albert von Tilzer (who write the music) had never been to a baseball game before his song became a hit sing-along. The Japanese national anthem is expressed in only four lines. The Greek anthem runs 158 verses. John Philip Sousa enlisted in the Marines at age 13. He worked as an apprentice in the band. At age 14, George Harrison joined his friend Paul McCartney's band, the Quarry Men, led by John Lennon. Harry Belafonte's 1956, Calypso, was the first album to sell one million copies. 16 weeks at # 1 on the Billboard charts is the record, held by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men for One Sweet Day (1995 - 1996) LeAnn Rimes's How Do I Live lasted 69 weeks in Billboard's Hot 100 (1996-1997) Michael Jackson's Bad Album had 5 number one songs, more than any other album. (1987-1988) Akon's Smack That debuted at # 95 in October, 2006. The next week it was number seven. That jump of 88 positions was the single biggest jump in Billboard's history. In April of 1964, The Beatles held the top 5 positions on the Billboard Charts. #1 - Can't Buy Me Love, #2 - Twist and Shout, #3 - She Loves You, #4 - I Want to Hold Your Hand, #5 - Please Please Me Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982-1984), Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (1984-1985) and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989-1991) were the only albums to produce seven top-ten singles. In February 2006, High School Musical generated the most simultaneous Hot 100 entries from any album, with nine songs in the Hot 100 simultaneously, five of them in the Top 40. This was based on downloads and sales: there was no significant radio airplay for any of the songs from this Disney Channel movie. James Brown had 99 Hot 100 Billboard entries, yet never had a number one Hot 100 hit.
At age 15, Jerry Garcia swapped his birthday accordion for an electric guitar. At age 4, Mozart composed a concerto for the clavier. At age 22, Jerry Lee Lewis married for the third time. His bride? His thirteen year old cousin. In 1764 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for the Royal Family at Versailles in France. He was even given the honor of standing behind the Queen at dinner - Mozart was only eight years old. Through the mid-1500s in France, the lute was still the favorite instrument, but in 1555, Balthazar de Beujoyeux, the first famous violinist in history, brought a band of violinists to Catherine's de Médicis court and made violin music popular. Paul McCartney's younger brother, Michael, formed a group of his own, known as "The Scaffold" and goes by the name "Mike McGear". He is mentioned in the lyric of "Let 'Em In" as "Brother Michael" (available on McCartney's "Wings At The Speed Of Sound" album). The Beatles held the Top Five spots on the April 4th, 1964 Billboard singles chart. They're the only band that has ever done that. The most recorded song of all time - with more than 2,000 versions - is 'Yesterday'. Included on the 'Help!' soundtrack, it was number one for four weeks in 1965.
A glockenspiel is a musical instrument that is like a xylophone. It has a series of metal bars and is played with two hammers. A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood. Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99. At one time the group "Grateful Dead" were called "The Warlocks." Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player. Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist. Billy Joel's CD, "52nd Street" was the first CD to be released to the public. This occurred in Japan in October of 1982. Duran Duran's hit song "Hungry Like The Wolf" was inspired by the children's story, "Little Red Riding Hood." In 1968, John Lennon and girlfriend Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins" was sold in the United States in a plain brown paper wrapper as on the real cover they both had posed nude. SkyDome's Hard Rock Caf?, located in Toronto, Ontario, is the home of the largest electric guitar in North America. Studies have shown that by putting on slow background music it can make a person eat food at a slower rate. Studies indicate that surgeons who listen to music while they operate improve in their performance. The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide. The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones. The average medium size piano has about 230 strings. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella." The biggest disco ball in the world has a diameter of 2.41 meters and 137.89 kilograms. It also has 6,900 mirror squares on it. The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion. The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing." The music band UB40 got its name from an unemployment form in England. The music group B'52's got their name from a southern expression used for a beehive hairdo. The music group Simply Red got its name from band member Mick Hucknall, who has red hair. The song "Happy Birthday" brings in about $2 million in licensing revenue to Warner Communications who hold the copyright to the song. The song "Strawberry Fields Forever" sung by the Beatles refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool. The song with the longest title is "I?m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin? Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He later claimed the song title ended with ?Yank? and the rest was a joke. When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed the song "Hey Jude," to cheer Julian up. |
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