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| | Facts | - The song "Strawberry Fields Forever" sung by the Beatles refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
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(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.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The music group Simply Red got its name from band member Mick Hucknall, who has red hair.
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(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.
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(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.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed the song "Hey Jude," to cheer Julian up.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - Almost 425,000 hotdogs and buns, 160,000 hamburgers and cheeseburgers were served at Woodstock '99.
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(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.
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(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.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The average medium size piano has about 230 strings.
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(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.
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(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.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion.
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide.
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(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."
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(Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher) - At one time the group "Grateful Dead" were called "The Warlocks."
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(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.
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(Added: Sat May 31 2008 By Gauher) - The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
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