Bill Withers says "I know" twenty-six times in Aint No Sunshine.
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Unusual Rock Trivia?
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I wonder how many times Andrew Eldritch and others sang 'Hey Now' on 'This Corrosion', or how many times Melanie Safka sang 'Lay on down'.
Similarly, 80’s synthpop band A Flock Of Seagulls took their name from a Stranglers tune…
Simple Minds as well, adapted from a Bowie lyric(“so simple minded he can’t drive his module”)…
I never got the significance of either, but, whatever; in the Simple Minds’ case, it beats ‘Johnny and the Self-Abusers’.
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When I was a wee teenager I counted up how many times Robert Plant says "baby" in the Led Zeppelin tune "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You". I think it was something like forty-three.
Bruce Springsteen sings "hiding on the backstreets" 26 times in a row during the outro of "Backstreets."
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One of the members of the Chainsmokers was classmates in secondary school with Alex Soros, son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
To complete the circle of coincidence, ACR took their name from a line in Brian Eno’s “The True Wheel”, from 1974…
Eno being the producer of Remain In Light, from whence “Houses…” came.
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A submarine can't weigh more than the seawater it displaces. Neutral buoyancy, you know.
When he was a young teenager, Ray Davies of the Kinks got his first guitar as a gift from his older sister. After she gave it to him, she went out to a local dance hall--and died from the exertion of dancing as the result of a heart condition. The last time Davies saw his sister alive was when she gave him the guitar. Her death devastated him and he later wrote "Come Dancing," about his sister's love of dancing.
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Phil Palmer, a legendary session guitarist from England, who has worked with Elton John, Eric Clapton and Dire Straits, is actually the nephew of Ray and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
"Neanderthal Man" is a song by Hotlegs, an English band that became 10cc. The song, initially created only as a studio exercise to test drum sounds on new recording equipment, sold over two million copies and was an international hit in 1970.
Eric Stewart recalled that when the recording equipment had been set up, Kevin Godley set up his drum kit, Lol Creme got out his guitar and Stewart sat down at the control desk. "It was the first time we'd had a real control desk with a four-track machine and we were excited to try it all out," he said. "The whole thing was just an experiment because Kevin wanted to lay all sorts of different drum beats down that he hadn't recorded before, and there was this crazy sort of nursery rhyme that had just got into our heads."
"As we laid down the drum tracks, Lol was singing in the studio with Kevin keeping time – and after we'd laid four drum tracks down Lol's voice came through at a very high level, sounding like something none of us had ever heard before on a record. It really sounded very strange, so we carried on working on the number, adding little bits of piano to it."
Eric Stewart recalled that when the recording equipment had been set up, Kevin Godley set up his drum kit, Lol Creme got out his guitar and Stewart sat down at the control desk. "It was the first time we'd had a real control desk with a four-track machine and we were excited to try it all out," he said. "The whole thing was just an experiment because Kevin wanted to lay all sorts of different drum beats down that he hadn't recorded before, and there was this crazy sort of nursery rhyme that had just got into our heads."
"As we laid down the drum tracks, Lol was singing in the studio with Kevin keeping time – and after we'd laid four drum tracks down Lol's voice came through at a very high level, sounding like something none of us had ever heard before on a record. It really sounded very strange, so we carried on working on the number, adding little bits of piano to it."
Mark McEntee, co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist, of The Divinyls, was in the original lineup of the band Air Supply and played on their first album.
Bernie Marsden, who co-wrote Whitesnake's hit "Here I Go Again," played on a Pepsi commercial version of "Summertime Blues."
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I seem to remember reading a rumor somewhere that J. Geils grew up in the same part of New Jersey as Meryl Streep, and that the 2 dated in high school.
This story would possibly unhinge people nowadays as they're checking their news feed at work.
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Blue Oyster Cult actually began as a band called Soft White Underbelly, and their first lead vocalist was Les Braunstein instead of Eric Bloom. Those early tapes of Soft White Underbelly are definitely worth checking.
I saw the appear as "Soft, White, Underbelly" (after the were famous) when they were gearing up for a tour in a little hole-in-the-wall (which was quite popular) called "Zaffy's" in Piscataway, NJ in 1979.
There's also the story behind their name change:
They sent their demo to everyone as SWU. They were rejected by everyone.
They changed their name (but not one single note of the music) and were signed, almost immediately.
