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When Madonna was 15 years old she got grounded for the whole summer for sneaking out to see a David Bowie concert.
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Parrothead
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Steely Dan really wasn't named after a sex toy- the band had a roadie named Dan who preferred his Chardonnay unoaked..
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The Phil Collins song "Calling in the Air Tonight" is about Collins watching his wife drown.
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60% of the members of The Cars didn't have driver's licenses when their debut album "Panorama" came out in 1979.
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David Byrne's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was the first guy to die in the Battle of the Alamo.
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One of the B-52's roadies is on that missing Malaysian jet.
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Trent Reznor was a starter on his high school football team (actually true).
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All of the dudes in Black Sabbath were actually white.
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I don't think that's right, it was someone else's wife and she wasn't drowning, she was attacked by an army of fire ants and then he saw the fire ants in the crowd at a show 5 years later and recognized them as the same fire ants that attacked someone's wife.
identikit
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Ran across this one a couple months ago regarding the origins of the title 'Sweet Home Alabama'
Seems like 'mobile homes' are actually named after the city they were invented in, James Sweet being the manufacturer. Sweet's Homes had a radio jingle they used in advertising.
Lynyrd Skynyrd incorporated that jingle into their song.
Per Snopes ( http://www.snopes.com/lost/mobile.asp ):
'The 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd hit 'Sweet Home Alabama' was a reworking of the 1951 radio jingle 'Sweet's Homes, Alabama'"
Seems like 'mobile homes' are actually named after the city they were invented in, James Sweet being the manufacturer. Sweet's Homes had a radio jingle they used in advertising.
Lynyrd Skynyrd incorporated that jingle into their song.
Per Snopes ( http://www.snopes.com/lost/mobile.asp ):
'The 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd hit 'Sweet Home Alabama' was a reworking of the 1951 radio jingle 'Sweet's Homes, Alabama'"
Jules Winnfield
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"Don't You (Forget About Me) was originally offered to Billy Idol and then to Bryan Ferry (from Roxy Music) to perform, but both declined. Keith Forsey, who with Steve Chiff wrote "Don't You (Forget About Me), also wrote "Shakedown" for Beverly Hills Cop II and the title song to Flashdance... What a Feeling. Forsey had just become drummer of The Psychedelic Furs and produced their album Mirror Moves, which led to another John Hughes connection: Hughes found out about The Psychedelic Furs when he used "Don't You (Forget About Me)" in The Breakfast Club and discovered that Forsey wrote it. The next year, he used their song "Pretty In Pink" as the title to his next movie, which gave The Furs a huge career boost. Forsey was a big fan of Simple Minds, so he tried to get them to perform the song, which they did at the insistence of their record company.
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Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were asked about this in an interview.Hastur said:
Phil: Is it true that Chevy Chase was once a drummer with Steely Dan?
Walter: No that's not true.
Donald: We went to college with Chevy and before we ever thought of the idea of Steely Dan we used to do pick up dates with Chevy on drums. He was a very good drummer. He was also one of the funniest drummers.
Donald: He maybe wasn't THE funniest drummer but one of the funniest.
Hastur
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OK, then he played drums with the two founding members of Steely Dan before the 'Steely Dan' line up was solidified.
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Don Henley used to blow dudes for money.
Like three years ago.
Like three years ago.
Leroy Hoard
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If only Phil hadn't decided to save the dog first.Officer Pete Malloy said:
Dan Lambskin
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Van Morrison was one of the founding members of The Traveling Wilburys but dropped out prior to recording a studio album due to creative differences with Roy Orbison
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Jackson Browne and Bernie Leadon are former members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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James Brown was African-American.
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