10 Quasi-Interesting Odd and Fun Facts About Music

[Mr. Ected]

1. The only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard.

2. The airplane that Buddy Holly died in was called American Pie. Don McLean wrote a song with the same name about the accident.

3. Duran Duran was named after a mad scientist from the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.

4. The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.

5. The first pop video was released in 1975. It was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

6. Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.

7. When Madonna was 15 years old, she got grounded for the whole summer, for sneaking out to see David Bowie in concert.

8. House of the Rising Sun by The Animals was recorded with only 15 minutes because the band was on a tight budget. In spite of that the song went all the way to number one in 1964.

9. When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary Billie Holiday.

10. Suzanne Vega is considered the “mother” of the mp3 format. The creators of the mp3 used her voice from the song Tom’s Diner for analyzing the different sound spectrums when creating the compression algorithm.

[rug]

1. 1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGoa6D_By60&feature=related

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. 6. Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.

Do they bang their little heads too?

[KamaAina]

5. Is there any kind of music that will make them eat more slowly?

Classical, perhaps? :shrug:

[kentauros]

3. I knew #3.

And the device he used to torture Barbarella was the "Excessive Machine" and was "played" by keyboard like an organ.
It's meant to cause "death by orgasm" :evilgrin:

[CBGLuthier]

4. Quasi True more like

Buddy Holly's airplane was NOT named American Pie.

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/americanpie.asp

Number 7 isn't even quasi-interesting. Who cares what 15 year old Madonna did.

Number 5 is nonsense. Lots of videos before that one.

[Throd]

6. #11 All KISS songs are really horrible.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. 12. GWAR! GWAR! GWAR!

[edbermac]

8. #2 regarding Buddy Holly is an urban legend and not true.

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/americanpie.asp