Mr Nice Guy10 More Pieces of Unusual Rock Trivia
November 1st 2011 23:07
It's not until you stumble across another book, movie or interview usually involving either a disgruntled manager, burnt out rocker or biographer that you get the chance to top up your stockpile of useless information.
So enjoy!
1) David Bowie has a lizard tattooed on his ankle.
2) Johnny Cash's estate was approached by an advertising company asking for permission to use Ring Of Fire on an ad for haemorrhoid cream. The request was refused.
3) Monaco's orchestra is bigger than its army.
4) Prince played 27 different instruments on his debut album For You.
5) Bryan Adams photographed Queen Elizabeth II for a Canadian postage stamp.
6) Alice Cooper has a golf handicap of only three
7) The Pendletones only became The Beach Boys when a young production worker named Russ Regan suggested a name-change to suit the title of the record, Surfin'
8) U2 were originally known as Feedback.
9) In the Beatles song Hey Jude, you can hear John Lennon swearing in the background as he misses a chord, if you listen very carefully.
10) Gloucestershire Airport in the west of England used to blast out Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.
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