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Let's spread some musical misinformation

Isn't Paul McCartney dead?
Although many know that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced, few know that in 1968 the replacement McCartney was replaced. In 1969 Lennon and the replacement McCartney had a fight and Yoko Ono killed the replacement McCartney. In a fit of remorse Lennon and Ono killed themselves. While there were plenty of McCartney and Lennon replacements by that time, it took nearly two months to find a replacement Yoko Ono.
 
Of course the original Paul McCartney is dead. So is the original Ringo. The replacement Ringo was difficult as initially, we was too good. By 1968, the only remaining original Beatle was George Harrison.

What most don't know is that there was a different George Martin for each album.

Ringo was replaced by a Mr. Roses. Ringer Ringo Roses, if you will.
 
Although many know that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced, few know that in 1968 the replacement McCartney was replaced. In 1969 Lennon and the replacement McCartney had a fight and Yoko Ono killed the replacement McCartney. In a fit of remorse Lennon and Ono killed themselves. While there were plenty of McCartney and Lennon replacements by that time, it took nearly two months to find a replacement Yoko Ono.

It would have taken a week but the Ono replacements kept failing the audition by being able to sing.
 
The Banana Splits were the same actors/musicians as The Monkees.

  • Fleegle – A greenish-brown dog wearing a large red bow tie, black buttons, brownish-orange chucks, and his tongue is always sticking out, giving him a lisp
Tork
  • Bingo – A nasal-voiced orange ape wearing white glasses and a yellow vest, featuring a toothy grin.
Dolenz
Nesmith
  • Snorky A mute furry elephant wearing pink glasses.
Jones, who due to issues with his work visa, was not allowed to sing in two shows. Plus if Jones had said anything it would have given the game away. Everyone knows that American voices all sound the same, even to Americans.
 
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"We are all clones, All are one and one are all"

All rock stars are clones of the Monkees...

TV suits in the US decided they needed a band to rival The Beatles and settled on the name The Musketeers. However, Davy Jones (a graduate of Manchester's School of Military History) objected on the grounds of both the Revolutionary War loss and the French assistance in the War of 1812. Faced with the loss of a key tambourine player, the TV suits relented and Musketeers were changed to Monkees and a typically American misquote of Alexandre Dumas' "All are one and one are all" became "We're the young generation, and we've got something to say"
 
The term Davy Jones locker isn't ancient at all, and refers to the Monkees star's work locker at the studio which was filled with all the best things from home: eccles cakes, black puddings, tea, and George Formby and Gracie Fields records. To make sure that no one broken into it, it was filled with eccles cakes, black puddings, tea and George Formby and Grace Fields records.
 
...This is Bob Ezrin's studio piano
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Most people find playing a piano on its side to be quite difficult, but Bob Ezrin just lays down on the floor on his left side; he has no trouble reaching the treble notes due to a freak boating accident involving water-skis that left him with an abnormally long right arm.