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Simon and Garfunkel were supposed to have an album following The Concert in Central Park but Garfunkel wouldn't stop smoking weed and cigarettes. https://twitter.com/TheOXGod/status/1328171220957728769
I am full of these.
I basically only know music facts.
I basically only know music facts.
Mozarts middle name wasn't actually Amadeus. He chose to add the Amadeus pretty much because it sounded cool.
Falco almost didn't record Rock Me, Amadeus because he thought it was kind of tacky to sing about someone famous from his home town.. and also he was loaded drunk and had to do it in parts.
They used to give Falco blood transfusions before performances in attempt to sober him up.
Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode is an Orthodox Catholic convert.
Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo is the artist in Yo Gabba Gabba!
Whip It by Devo isn't about self love, it's making fun of propaganda and political catch phrases.
Spirit in the Sky was written by a Jewish man (Norman Greenbaum) who just wanted to prove he could easily write a hymn.
The Tears for Fears hit Everybody Wants to Rule the World was originally written as Everybody Wants to Go to War but changed the lyrics upon success.
Tear for Fears were set to play Live Aid but all their session musicians contracts ended shortly before and had made other commitments. They donated money instead.
Something, Layla, Wonderful Tonight and many other hits are all about the same woman, Pattie Boyd.
Gordon Lightfoots Sundown is written about a former girlfriend Cathy Smith. She would later be charged with killing John Belushi.
Paul Stanley from KISS has a birth defect causing him to be completely deaf in one ear.
Dolly Parton has a bunch of tattoos.
Ringo was a replacement in the Beatles. He later discovered they were hiring session musicians to play drums on their albums. He thought he was out a job, but they kinda just kept him anyway.
Max Martin is a Swedish songwriter known for ..Baby One More Time and I Want it That Way (among other popular hits) but him and his team were not fluent in English and that's why sometimes the lyrics don't really make sense or the translation is lost (like the 'hit me' part.)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the red head of ABBA is a result of a Nazi expirement to build a master race.
