- The song "Strawberry Fields Forever" sung by the Beatles refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
 2 Comments  Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- 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.
 More Details 1 Comments Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- The music group Simply Red got its name from band member Mick Hucknall, who has red hair.
1 Comments Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- 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.
1 Comments Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- A glockenspiel is a musical instrument that is like a xylophone. It has a series of metal bars and is played with two hammers.
1 Comments Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- Mozart, ever the comedian, wrote a piece of music in 1782 for six voices called “lick me in the ass  ( Leck mich im Arsch ) or more colloquially “kiss my ass 
More Details Write Comment
(Added: Tue Sep 15 2009 By MissPrincess)
- When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed the song "Hey Jude," to cheer Julian up.
More Details Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- Billy Joel's CD, "52nd Street" was the first CD to be released to the public. This occurred in Japan in October of 1982.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- SkyDome's Hard Rock Cafe, located in Toronto, Ontario, is the home of the largest electric guitar in North America.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- The average medium size piano has about 230 strings.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- The music group B'52's got their name from a southern expression used for a beehive hairdo.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- 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.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide.
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- Duran Duran's hit song "Hungry Like The Wolf" was inspired by the children's story, "Little Red Riding Hood."
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- At one time the group "Grateful Dead" were called "The Warlocks."
Write Comment
(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
- Studies have shown that by putting on slow background music it can make a person eat food at a slower rate.
Write Comment
(Added: Sat May 31 2008 By Gauher)
Page(s) : 1 2
|
|
