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1 | Adele Adele was discovered after her friend posted demos of her on Myspace in 2004. Adele is a big Spice Girls fan, saying, “I’ll never be ashamed to say I love the Spice Girls because they made me who I am. I’m deadly serious about that.” |
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2 | Bush Ryan Gosling could have been a member of the Backstreet Boys — but he turned them down. |
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3 | Janet Jackson Janet Jackson exposed her right breast during her duet with Justin Timberlake. Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004.02.01 was one of the inspirations for the creation of YouTube. The other inspiration was the Indian tsunami. ... According to Janet Jackson, she pierced her nose for “a spiritual reason.” No word if her pierced nipple holds any spiritual significance. |
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4 | Mariah Carey Mariah’s nickname was “Mirage” because she cut class so often. |
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5 | Snoop Dogg Brandy and Snoop Dogg are first cousins. |
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6 | Katy Perry Scarlett Johansson’s lips inspired Katy Perry to co-write “I Kissed a Girl.” After asking for it, Katy Perry kept a lock of both Taylor Swift’s and Miley Cyrus’ hair in her purse. |
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7 | Aerosmith U2 was originally asked to perform “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing,” before it went to Aerosmith. |
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8 | Whitney Houston In 2002, Saddam Hussein’s theme song for re-election was Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” |
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9 | Lady GaGa Akon is credited with discovering Lady Gaga. According to Gaga, her dad pioneered installing Wi-Fi in hotel rooms in 2002. Myth: Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite. |
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10 | Amy Winehouse Gaga dyed her blonde after being confused for Amy Winehouse. As a kid, Amy Winehouse and her best friend formed a Salt-N-Pepa inspired rap group called Sweet ‘N’ Sour. Amy got her very first tattoo, one of Betty Boop, at age 15. |
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11 | Madonna Vanilla Ice broke up with his then-girlfriend, Madonna, because of her explicit and controversial photo book, Sex. Madonna was introduced to her boyfriend, Tupac Shakur, in 1993 Madonna set the music video for her song “Take a Bow” in 1940s Spain as a way to lobby for the role of Eva Peron in Evita. |
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12 | Justin Timberlake Jennifer Lawrence used to look exactly like Justin Timberlake did in 1999. |
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13 | Led Zeppelin When "Stairway To Heaven" is played backwards, you can hear the phrase "oh here's to my sweet satan..the one who's little path would make me sad, whose power is satan..he'll give you give you 666 there was a little toolshed where he would make us suffer, sad in the part of "if there's a bustle..." Steve Vai picked up a guitar for the first time after he heard Zepp's "Heartbreaker". His sister "brought 'Led Zepp II' to my house and that was it. When I heard "Heartbreaker" and that solo...I knew I wanted to play guitar!" The playing time as for "Stairway To Heaven" is longer than it took Plant & Page to write it (they needed one more song for the album.) Yes folks, the song is FILLER! |
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14 | The Beatles The mighty final chord of The Beatles' "A Day In The Life" was played by ten hands in three pianos simultaneously: Lennon's, Mc Cartney's, Starr's. The solo in The Beatle's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is played by Clapton. "Yesterday" first appeared in 1965. By 1967, there were 466 versions of the song. Nowadays there are more than 4000 versions. Two songs were recorded by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elvis: "That's Alright, Mama" and "Yesterday". According to Paul McCartney, the "you" in "Got to Get You Into My Life" was marijuana. In the Beatles' "A Day In The Life," there's a bit in the orchestral score where the musicians were told "start on the lowest note your instrument can play, and gradually work your way up to the highest note your instrument can play." (and they did) |
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15 | Eric Clapton "Layla" was written by Eric Clapton to steal George Harrison's wife, Patty Boid. Layla was the nickname Eric had given her inspired by a turkish legend. On march 20th 1991, Eric Clapton's son Connor fell out of a balcony in his New York department. The sad, beautiful and chick-magnet song "Tears In Heaven" is dedicated to him (along with "The Circus Left The Town"). |
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16 | The Cure According to the "South Park" kids, The Cure's "Disintegration" is the best album of all times. |
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17 | Def Leppard Def Leppard's drummer, Rick Allen, lost an arm in a car crash in the mid-eighties. However, Rick decided to keep on playing, and learned to do it with his feet and some programmed drum lines. The band continued as normal, and their next album with their "new" drummer was "Pyromania". |
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18 | Bob Marley The NO WOMAN-NO CRY's "Government Yard In Trench Town" houses given by the government where Bob Marley lived in the late '50s. |
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19 | Guns N' Roses Axl's "Sweet Child" was Erin Everly, daughter of Don Everly (from the Everly Brothers). Axl and Erin got married, but their marriage only lasted a month Guns And Roses recorded the beautiful "Patience" one night they were totally drunk |
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20 | Black Sabbath Black Sabbath's guitarist, Tony Iommi, lost part of two fingers in a "work accident", and it seemed the band was over. However, he managed to continue playing using a device which made his two stump fingers "longer", and tuning the guitar three steps down in order to loosen the strings and bend them more easily. His first song with his new "style" was a damn good one: "Iron Man". |
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21 | Pink Floyd Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is dedicated to the band's former leader Syd Barret. Syd used to be the leader...until his schizophrenia and the LSD started to catch up with him, and he became rather insane.; lots of the insanity themes they sing about is related to their former bandmate. the band changed their name to The Pink Floyd Sound, named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Council (two bluesmen). Ummagumma (a Pink Floyd cd) is (british) slang for sex. Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" LP was originally released in blue plastic shrink wrap; you could not see the cover unless you bought it. Roy Harper sang lead vocals on Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar" There is only one line in Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days." Nick Mason, the drummer, the only member to play on every Pink Floyd album, recorded the line ... "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." That is the only line he ever sang on a Floyd album. |
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22 | Deep Purple "Smoke On The Water" refers to a Frank Zappa show in Montreux in 1971, where someone lit a flaregun and "burned the place to the ground". |
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23 | Jimi Hendrix Jimi created "Little Wing" in only 145 seconds! that's only two minutes and a half! pretty much the same as the song's lenght! Prince is a huge fan of Hendrix. The song "Purple Rain" is an alegory to "Purple Haze". You know that Jimi Hendrix was the last act at Woodstock, but do you know who played right before him? Sha Na Na. ;]]] |
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24 | The White Stripes The tuning used in "Seven Nation Army" that sounds so...basslike is E A E A C#E in case you ever wondered. Myth: Jack White and Meg White are brother and sister. |
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25 | The Who One night at a gig, when The Who had just begun, Pete Townshend was experimenting with the feedback he got when he put his guitar near his amp. He accidentally hit the ceiling with the guitar, which caused an awesome sound that was cheered by the (small) audience. Pete tried to repeat that sound with such bad (or good) luck that he broke the guitar's neck. "No one cheered, in fact there was a terrible silence, a "this-guy-is-an-asshole silence, so i finished breaking the guitar acting as if that had been my true intention". On The Who's next performance there were twice as many people. |
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26 | Nirvana "Here we are now, entertain us" was what Kurt would say whenever he entered a party in order to "break the ice". |
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27 | Freddie Mercury In Freddie Mercury's video "The Great Pretender", one of the women that sing with him is actually the band's drummer Roger Taylor disguised as one. |
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28 | The Doors Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors Of Perception", which extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs. |
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29 | Frank Zappa Unlike pretty much every rockstar, Frank Zappa didn't like beer. He used to say his body "gets along better with pepper, tobacco and coffee". |
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30 | Bee Gees The Beatles used to go out and get wasted, laid, high and do fun stuff with some members of the Rolling Stones and...the Bee Gees. |
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31 | AC/DC The name AC/DC was suggested by Angus and Malcolm's sister Margaret Young, who saw a label that read AC/DC on the back of a vacuum cleaner. The Young brothers thought it was a good name for their band, because "it had something to do with electricity, so it seemed to fit" Everyone knows John Bonham died by aspirating his own vomit after drinking too much; not everyone knows that alcohol almost killed him on the day he was born. The doctor who was on-call to deliver him was drunk, and a suitable replacement was inexplicably difficult to find. |
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32 | Slayer Kerry King of Slayer played guitar for Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn". Who said death metal and hip hop couldn't work together? |
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33 | Jethro Tull This is why MTV is crap: MTV execs came up with the idea of the "Unplugged" series after seeing Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull do a brief, live acoustic set. But when Anderson later asked about having Jethro Tull appear on "Unplugged," MTV turned him down flat, oin the grounds that the band was too old and didn't have enough appeal among the desired teen demographic. |
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34 | Van Halen Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar solo in the middle of Michael Jackson's Beat It. The Van Halen brothers were born in the Netherlands and trained as concert pianists. The name of the band was originally Mammoth. |
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35 | Metallica on the day of cliff burton(metallica)'s death, the band was fighting over who gets the best beds on the tourbus. they used a game of cards to see who will get which bed. cliff won against kirk with an ace of spades. later during the evening when they were sleeping, the bus toppled over, which killed cliff in the position that he was in. had cliff not have won the card game, kirk hammet would have been no more. |
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36 | ZZ Top of the three members of ZZ Top, the only one who doesn't have a beard is the one whose name is 'Beard'. What a curious thing, ain't it?:P |
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37 | Sex Pistols The money used to score the heroin that killed Sid Vicious was given to him by his mother, who was under the impression he was going to use the money to just buy cocaine (What a mom!). |
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38 | UB40 The group UB40 (That's right! Red, Red Wine..) took their name from the form used by the unemployment office in Britain. |
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39 | David Bowie Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitarist on David Bowie's "Let's Dance" album (country meets glam? it turned out just fine) |
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40 | Brian Jones ex-Stones member.Died at 27.The legend says it is time to pay the price once you turn 27, so this legend has also been the "logical" explanation for many people to Kurt's and Jimi's death. The movie "Crossroads" is entirely based on this legend. |
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41 | Jimi Hendrix also died at 27 |
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42 | Janis Joplin also died at 27 |
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43 | Amy Winehouse also died at 27 |
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44 | Jim Morrison also died at 27. Myth: Jim Morrison is alive and someone else’s body is in his grave. |
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45 | Kurt Cobain also died at 27. Myth: Courtney Love murdered Kurt Cobain. |
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46 | Sting Sting's real name is Gordon Sumner (with an 'n') even though he ironically twisted his own name with the album Ten Summoner's Tales. "Summoner" refers to those that would summon people to court for their crimes during the middle ages. Mr. Sumner's surname is actually derived through his lineage from this occupation. So, really, his original name is used in the album's title. .... Sting sings back up on Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing". |
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47 | Michael Jackson Myth: Michael Jackson had only two plastic surgeries during his lifetime. |
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48 | Marilyn Manson Myth: Marilyn Manson removed a pair of ribs to be able to perform self-fellatio. |
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49 | Paul McCartney Myth: McCartney died in an auto accident in 1966 and was replaced by an impersonator. (Paul McCartney, conspiracy theorists believed, had been killed in a car accident in 1967) |
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50 | The KLF on 23 August 1994 burned cash in the amount of one million pounds sterling in a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura. |
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