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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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The original bass line on Once In A Lifetime had a note on the 'one', but Eno had Weymouth remove it.
Buckethead recorded 13 albums in 2007. As though that weren't enough, he insisted on burning each copy personally and hand-drawing art for each disc. Invalid Link Removed.
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For a brief time in 2020, Eagles guitarist Don Felder was engaged to Inside Edition news journalist Diane McInerney. However, due to the coronavirus, they had to break off their engagement later that year.
The Story Behind David Bowie's Unlikely Christmas Duet with Bing Crosby
"I think the producers told Bowie to take the lipstick off and take the earring out," Crosby's son Nathaniel recalled.
The pair’s duet on “Little Drummer Boy” for the 1977 TV special Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas has indeed become something of an outlier in Bowie’s career, landing as it did in the middle of Bowie’s particularly strange – even for him – late ’70s run. But what sparked this collaboration? In a roundabout way, Bowie’s mom.
The pitch was originally to have the pair duet on “Little Drummer Boy,” but Grossman told PBS that Bowie put his foot down. He said, ‘I won’t sing that song. I hate that song and I’m doing this show because my mother loves Bing Crosby.’
In 2014, Merrie Olde Christmas writers Larry Grossman and Buz Kohan remembered the circumstances behind the collaboration. The show's writers found a solution: Craft a counter-melody that Bowie could sing while Crosby proceeded with “Little Drummer Boy.” “It all happened rather rapidly. I would say within an hour, we had it written and were able to present it to him” Kohan explained to PBS.
Bowie loved the resulting melody, called “Peace on Earth,” and the rest was history.
Crosby’s daughter Mary remembered Bowie’s arrival on-set very clearly. “The doors opened, and David walked in with his wife. They were both wearing full-length mink coats, matching full makeup and their hair was bright red and We were thinking, Oh my God.
“They sat at the piano and David was a little nervous,” she continued, but eventually, “Dad realized David was this amazing musician, and David realized Dad was an amazing musician. You could see them both collectively relax and then magic was made.” Bowie was 30 when the collaboration happened; Crosby, who would die a month later, was 73.
"I think the producers told Bowie to take the lipstick off and take the earring out," Crosby's son Nathaniel recalled.
The pair’s duet on “Little Drummer Boy” for the 1977 TV special Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas has indeed become something of an outlier in Bowie’s career, landing as it did in the middle of Bowie’s particularly strange – even for him – late ’70s run. But what sparked this collaboration? In a roundabout way, Bowie’s mom.
The pitch was originally to have the pair duet on “Little Drummer Boy,” but Grossman told PBS that Bowie put his foot down. He said, ‘I won’t sing that song. I hate that song and I’m doing this show because my mother loves Bing Crosby.’
In 2014, Merrie Olde Christmas writers Larry Grossman and Buz Kohan remembered the circumstances behind the collaboration. The show's writers found a solution: Craft a counter-melody that Bowie could sing while Crosby proceeded with “Little Drummer Boy.” “It all happened rather rapidly. I would say within an hour, we had it written and were able to present it to him” Kohan explained to PBS.
Bowie loved the resulting melody, called “Peace on Earth,” and the rest was history.
Crosby’s daughter Mary remembered Bowie’s arrival on-set very clearly. “The doors opened, and David walked in with his wife. They were both wearing full-length mink coats, matching full makeup and their hair was bright red and We were thinking, Oh my God.
“They sat at the piano and David was a little nervous,” she continued, but eventually, “Dad realized David was this amazing musician, and David realized Dad was an amazing musician. You could see them both collectively relax and then magic was made.” Bowie was 30 when the collaboration happened; Crosby, who would die a month later, was 73.
Thanks for posting that fantastic background story.
In the late '60s, Jefferson Airplane recorded radio commercials for Levi's Jeans. Far out, man...
That was new to me. Pretty bad. No, really bad.
Everyone eventually learned Michael Jackson had a skin condition, but the first clue came before his face changed. That trademark glove of his wasn't just an affectation -- he wore it to cover the vitiligo patches on his hand.
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Everybody knows the story about John Fogerty being sued for plagiarizing his own song, right?
Well, in the early Seventies, Arco Industries, which held the copyright to Little Richard's hit Good Golly Miss Molly, tried to sue John Fogerty, claiming that the song Travellin Band partially plagiarized the melody of Good Golly Miss Molly. (The suit was subsequently dropped.)
Well, in the early Seventies, Arco Industries, which held the copyright to Little Richard's hit Good Golly Miss Molly, tried to sue John Fogerty, claiming that the song Travellin Band partially plagiarized the melody of Good Golly Miss Molly. (The suit was subsequently dropped.)
Sounds like a total pisstake(“you want psychedelic, we’ll give you psychedelic, har har”); they took the money and ran.
This is more cringeworthy as they were trying to be serious(I think)…
Then there’s this…
It actually rips off “Long Tall Sally” quite a bit. CCR did cover “…Molly”, though.
For their 1976 Worldwide Texas Tour,
ZZ Top thought it was a good idea to bring some live animals onstage. The buffalo got antsy and smashed open the rattlesnake container. Snakes swarmed the performance area, and the band fled.
ZZ Top thought it was a good idea to bring some live animals onstage. The buffalo got antsy and smashed open the rattlesnake container. Snakes swarmed the performance area, and the band fled.
Now this is bizarre. Regarding Jimi Hendrix. If it’s an urban rock and roll myth, please let me know.
Invalid Link Removed for a weekend in 1969. They released him when a rival mobster phoned them and threatened them into abandoning the plan.
Invalid Link Removed for a weekend in 1969. They released him when a rival mobster phoned them and threatened them into abandoning the plan.
Cracked.com is billed as a humor site, so I don't know if this story is serious or not.
Yeah, that story has been floating around for years. The heroin angle is BS, there is always someone trying to pin that on Hendrix, but there is no evidence behaviorally that he was a junkie; that incident at the Canadian border was a set-up. His manager, Mike Jeffrey, was a shady character with criminal and corrupt government connections, and it’s been suggested that, by planting it in Jimi’s luggage, he was sending a message as to who was in control. Jeffrey was none too happy with the all-black Band Of Gypsies, and in particular wanted Buddy Miles out of the picture. Others that knew Hendrix have even hinted that his death was a deliberate murder, as Jeffrey knew Hendrix had plans to ditch him(let alone go off in new, uncommercial musical directions), and after all, dead rock stars can still make plenty of money. Jeffrey had been funneling Hendrix money into a Caribbean bank account, and then years later died in a mysterious plane crash, so, as they say, who knows?
Donna Haim, mother of Este, Danielle, and Alana of the band Haim, won a contest on The Gong Show in the 1970s singing a Bonnie Raitt song. Their father, Moti, was a professional soccer player in Israel and also a drummer.
They occasionally perform with Haim.
They occasionally perform with Haim.
Oh, you don’t know the half of it…for six years in the 80’s I worked in a new/used and collector’s record store, somewhat similar to the one portrayed in High Fidelity, but with a wider variety of stock. It was in the midwest, but we’d get people from all over the world coming in to look for stuff, plus people like Los Lobos, Marshall Crenshaw, and Jello Biafra would be there all day, sometimes camping out in the basement(twice the size of the main floor)going through the stacks. Looking for 16 rpm WW II era transcription discs? No problem, we even had a period turntable for that. Elvis on Sun 78’s? That’s alright, mama, they’re on a shelf in the office. So…an insane army of classical, jazz, and soundtrack collectors, oh boy. Wanna know about shaded dog, Living Stereo, rainbow swirl, white label promo, six eye Columbia, Mercury Living Presence, and counterfeit Vee Jay pressings? “Anarchy In The UK” on EMI? Come on down.
Sometimes you could have fun with certain customers. There was a noise band from NYC similar to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, that came in. I pulled out a jazzy vocal album by Honor Blackman, which blew their minds, and they bought it(if I have to explain that one, never mind).
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Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie's brother, John Perfect, was a British saxophonist who played saxophones and flute on Fleetwood Mac's 1971 album, Future Games.
