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Ok folks - put up your favorite bits of music trivia here.

I'll start with a few:


Eric Clapton played guitar on the Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps. He also stole George's wife and wrote Layla about her

On Paul Kelly's From Little Things Big Things Grow, Ernie Dingo played the didgeridoo. But he forgot to bring one to the studio so instead he played some PVC piping he bought from Bunnings

Many of the Seekers hits were written by Dusty Springfield's brother.

The son of the guy who sang It Never Rains In Southern California plays guitar for The Strokes.

Fat Boy Slim one sang in an vocal band, The Housemartins, who had a few hits in the 80's
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Billy Joe used to be the drummer and Mike Dirnt the guitarist.
They come from the same town San Diago as Rancid and Billy used to be in the band even before Lars Frendrikson was even known about.

Time of your life was written by Green Day/Billy when they were 20 year olds. Was originally called Good ridance and nothing else and featured drums and distortion.

Courtney Love was in Faith No More in its early days. :eek:

Elvis is not dead :D
 

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hotpie said:
Faith No More were in Courtney Love too. :)
No doubt they could all fit inside at once.

I can only think of one:

Radiohead used to be called On A Friday because that's when they met to have band practice.
 

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Prince wrote the Bangles hit Manic Monday.

Live and Let Die was only covered by Guns and Roses it was written and performed by Paul McCartney for the Bond film of the same name.

Mick Jagger was seen in the graveyard on the eve of the Stones latest tour with a shovel and lantern, his task: to dig up the corpse of Keith Richards.

Neil Diamond wrote "I'm A Believer" and it may have topped the charts 3 seperate times. Diamond, Monkees, Smashmouth??? someone correct me if i'm wrong.

Badfingers "Come And Get It" is a McCartney song and can be listened to on Beatles anthology three.


Trivia: Who was born Harry Webb and in which country was he born in?

Trivia: which sleaze line did Mick Jagger add to the performance of the song "Its only rock and roll" on the 89 world tour, how did he involve the female backing singer?

Trivia: who are the tin lids?

Trivia: which rolling stone beded the most women in the 60's?
 

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Bad Religion trivia:

- Bad Religion guitarist and former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty member Brian Baker in 1994, prior to joining the band was offered the fill in for R.E.M.'s guitarest in one of their world tours for 19 months. He accepted this offer before he had to decline after accepting the offer to join Bad Religion. He was also asked to join Guns and Roses in early 2000.
- Epitaph, owned by guitarest Brett Gurewitz, the world's largest independent record label started as just a postal box since noone would sign Bad Religion. They would store their records at Greg Graffin's mum's house. Brett has been offered 50-100 million dollars for half of Brett's record label business.
- Lead singer Greg Graffin's full name is Dr. Gregory Walter Graffin III. He has completed his PhD in evoloutionary biology. His PhD is in Evolutionary Biology but he says he is actually a doctor of Zoology (it is vertebrate fossils he studies). The actual PhD is on bone tissue and he's been said to be one of the five leading bone tissue paleontologists in the world.

- Roy Bittain (keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) walked into Epitaph headquarters and told Jay and Brett that they should re-release Against the Grain and he would produce it and he would re-write the songs. They laughed their asses off for a while and told him to leave.
 

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sherb said:
Harry Webb is Cliff Richard, but I have no idea where he was born. I will have a guess and say India.
Correct & Correct - Born in Lucknow, India on 14/10/1940.

Tin Lids were Jimmy Barnes' kids band.
 

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Mick Jagger was seen in the graveyard on the eve of the Stones latest tour with a shovel and lantern, his task: to dig up the corpse of Keith Richards.
Keith looks dead most of the time, and should by all accounts be dead, but i don't think he's croaked it yet lol. Not Brian Jones was it?
 

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The Walrus was Paul.
though if you ever see Ferris Bueller, he says john,
but if you listen to Glass Onion, it's Paul.
John, in his infamously scathing "god" then plants another clue for us all: "i was the walrus, but now im john"

The walrus was Paul and it is rumoured that he is in the warus costume in georges "when we was fab" video, rather clever video almost took home best video of the year. theres a shot with ringo on drums, george singing on guitar, with the walrus with a rickenbaker bass and someone walks past holding an imagine album with johns face on it, the beatles in 1988 ;)
 
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the songs off justin timberlakes 'justified' lp were actually written for michael jackson but he rejected them

the mothersbaugh brothers from devo write all the music for rugrats.

ben shepherd from soudgarden was invited to join nirvana as a second guitarist, but he insisted they were better off as is and declined.

noel gallagher was a roadie for legendary manchester band 'the inspiral carpets'

keith richards goes to a swiss hospital to have his blood replaced every 12 months.
 

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* Midge Ure (Slik,Ultravox) tried out for lead singer of The Sex Pistols.
* The managers of The Clash and Sex Pistols (Rhodes and McLaren) were working on a "swap" where Mick Jones would join The Sex Pistols and Steve Cook The Clash. Luckily it never came off.
* Brian James (The Damned) was working for his local council and living in a rented council house after he left the band. He now owns and lives in a house in South France courtesy of Guns and Roses covering "New Rose" on Spaghetti Incident.
* Nick Lowe was looking for a "real job" when the first royality cheque (of many) from "The Bodyguard" arrived in the post. It was for a million pounds. "Whats so funny about peace love and understanding?" had been used.
* Reg Presley (The Troggs) was still eeking out a living touring the world with whatever number version of The Troggs was still going when "Love is all around" turned him into an instant multi-millionare. It had been used on "Four Weddings and a funeral"(or one of those sort of movies).
* The Easybeats were offered "Wild Thing" to record but turned it doen prefering to do their own songs.
* Stevie Wright and George Young wrote Johnny Young's #1 hit from the 60's "Step Back" whilst hungover and half asleep in a perth hotel room in 15 minutes.
* Bon Scott used to be a hippie(Long hair and beard and all) in the early 70's living on a collective farm in the Adelaide Hills and playing with local crooners "Fraternity".

that will do for starters..........
 

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BLONDIE were the first (and I believe still the only) band to have a #1 hit in 3 consecutive decades.

Denis - 1978
Hanging On The Telephone - 1978
Heart of Glass - 1978
Sunday Girl - 1979
Dreaming - 1979
Atomic - 1979
Call Me - 1980
The Tide Is High - 1980
Maria - 1999
 

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Before the Angels were the hard rocking Angels, they played jug music - using pots and pans and whistles and tennis racquets and washboards and baby rattles etc as instruments - called the Moonshine String and Jug Band.

(only kidding about the pots and pans but you can guarantee fidddles banjos and tons of percussion)
 
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