Amazing Music Facts!

The biggest selling 12" single in history was 'Blue Monday' by New Order. That 'record' will never be beaten as 12" singles are obviously on the decline. The band/record label actually LOST at least a penny on each sale because of the ridiculously high cost of producing a cut-out record sleeve in the design of an old floppy disk. Factory Records went bankrupt in the late '90s :P

Did you know that when you play the Classic movie "Wizard of OZ" at the same time you play one the greatest albums "The Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd, many coincidences will occur as the music matches the film in amusing ways.
Member of Pink Floyd denies any coincidence, Alan Parsons, who was the engineer on Dark Side of the Moon, said that no one in the band had discussed The Wizard of Oz while they were making the album.

this is the link to the movie.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4935715412555856092

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Originally posted by JonM

Post your amazing music facts here!
Ill start.

I knew that Micheal Jackson owned all of the Beatles back catalouge, but i had no Idea that everytime Paul Mccartney sang any of the songs, he had to pay for the privelage!!

So my fact is Paul Mccartney has to pay to sing Hey Jude!

Whats yours!

MJ owns half of the publishing rights to the beatles songs

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.htm

Britney Spears Husband is a Douche bag

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Originally posted by iamcardiaccat

Jackson should have to give Paul back his songs by default. Thats like giving OJ back his kids after his wife was killed. It's just wrong...

He will do, its written in the contracts that in a couple of years Paul will get back 75% of the back catalouge,and the rest in like 10 yrs, hence the reason why noone has bought them of MJ, who would when they expire in a couple of years!

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Britney Spears Husband is a Douche bag

So is Britney, so they go well together!

Bono sunglasses becuase he has an allergy to salicyclates

^^^
Bono actually wears his fashionable shades becuase he has an allergy to salicyclates, which are found in things such as wine. According to Bono: "that means I lose my voice or I fall asleep in the strangest places, like once on the lighting board for Sonic Youth, one of the loudest concerts in the world. And I get red eyes, which is one of the reasons I wear glasses." (quote from u2faqs.com)

sorry for the 2 posts

james morrison (australian jazz trumpeter) played the wrong spanish anthem at the davis cup leading from now on no anthems are to be played live

trombone has only 6 slide positions the only thing that makes it hard is knowing what tune each one of them is

It is said that the Alice Deejay moniker given to both Judy and the group is a reference to the way the girls felt the first time they met; namely, like they were "Alice in Wonderland."

-askmen.com

The smash hit "Place Your Hands" by Reef took 10 mins to record n a studio.
It was finished in the first take and was deemed the one of the most successful recording sessions ever!

Did you know that Freddie Mercury is Indian?

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Originally posted by mlcdr13

Did you know that Freddie Mercury is Indian?

no, but it surely is he was Indian.

Cool.

Other singers who are Indian are: Cliff Richards, Englebert Hupmerdink

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Originally posted by mlcdr13

Other singers who are Indian are: Cliff Richards, Englebert Hupmerdink

Do you mean born in India?

Most toilets flush in E flat

The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.

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Originally posted by mlcdr13

Did you know that Freddie Mercury is Indian?

Actually Freddie was born in Tanzania/Zanzibar. That would make him Persian? And his real name was Farokh Balsara.

http://www.nndb.com/people/521/000044389/

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Originally posted by JonM

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Other singers who are Indian are: Cliff Richards, Englebert Hupmerdink

Do you mean born in India?
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They are Indians...Anglo-Indians (i.e half Indian, half European)