Musical titbits and items of interest

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When Kurt Cobain first presented the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to his bandmates, bassist Krist Novoselic dismissed it at the time as "ridiculous."

In response, Cobain made the band play the riff over and over again until, collectively the band members slowed the riff down so they had fast and slow sections.

- As a result, it became the only song on Nevermind to credit all three band members as joint composers
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*** The women only Lilith Fair festival was named after Lilith from Cheers (and later Frasier).

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I doubt the women's music fair was named after Frasier's ex-wife; more likely it was for Lilith, who in biblical mythology was actually the First Woman, Jewish, before Eve.
 

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1. Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is dedicated to the band's former leader Syd Barret.
Syd used to be the leader...until his schizophrenia and the LSD started to catch up with him, and he became rather insane.

The band called David Gilmour, who had given Syd guitar lessons during high shool, and would cover for Syd during concerts, correcting his mistakes and filling in when he started playing along to a different tune. Syd eventually got more and more distanced of the band and David got to be the lead guitarist, but lots of the insanity themes they sing about is related to their former bandmate.



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2. "Smoke On The Water" refers to a Frank Zappa show in Montreux in 1971, where someone lit a flaregun and "burned the place to the ground".

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1. B.B. King's beatiful guitar is a Gibson ES-355, but is known as Lucille.
Actually, King has quite a few of these guitars (and a custom series), all named Lucille.
He even dedicated her a song, in which he tells her how much she means to him and the adventures they had together.


2. When Brian May was nine he realized that he couldn't play all the songs he wanted to in the acoustic guitar he had gotten two years before, so he decided to change it.
- However, he didn't have enough money to buy one, so, with a little help from his father, he started building his own ax in 1963.

This guitar was finished the next year, and was baptized "Red Special" (it is red, in case you haven't guessed).

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- It is the only song in the Floyd canon, that a member of Pink Floyd didn't sing.
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  • There is only one line in Pink Floyd's "One Of These Days." Nick Mason, the drummer recorded the line ... "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." That is the only line he ever sang on a Floyd album

  • Mason the only member to play on every Pink Floyd album.

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Quote - "Keith Richards is the original punk rocker. You can"t out-punk Keith, it’s pointless."
= Mick Jagger
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Quote - "Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you’re a rock n roll musician. Whereas if you were a violinist, it might be a little different."
= Slash, Guns n Roses
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Quote - "I know a few groovy middle-aged people, but not many."
= Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones 1966
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Quote - "Lets face it, if I weren’t as talented as I am ambitious, I’d be a gross monstrosity."
= Madonna
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Quote - "We shall never tour America again. It’s very hard work, and one bring down after another. You have no idea how terrible it is."
= Keith Richards 1967
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  • Franz Schubert
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Schubert once told a friend, “I compose every morning. When I finish one piece, I start another.”

With that mentality, he composed more than 600 songs before he passed away at only 31.
Between his first song, in March 1811, and his last, written in October 1828, he averaged about three songs per month.
He also composed mountains of orchestral, chamber, piano, churn, and opera music.
Being so busy, you might ask how he kept track of it all. The simple answer is he didn’t.

When Schubert’s friend, singer, and fellow composer Johann Michael Vogl gave the first performance of many of Schubert’s songs, he included one he especially liked. However, the song was in a high key he found uncomfortable. So, Vogl had it transposed and hired a copyist to prepare a new manuscript.
A few weeks later, he performed it for Schubert. Schubert loved it and exclaimed, “That’s a good song. Who wrote it?
 
The First Human in Space Was Also the First to Make Music in Space
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In 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin not only became the first human in space but the first to sing there.
The song “The Homeland Hears” was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for a play written by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky.

Dolmatovsky needed an “aeronautical beacon,” a song for a pilot in the play to sing to help him navigate the Alps.
The song apparently became popular among real pilots, and Gagarin sang it as he became the first person to orbit the planet, navigating his own unique journey.

 
"Bohemian Rhapsody” is the Most-Streamed Song From the 20th Century
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If you had to guess which song released in the 20th Century was the most-streamed, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” might be an obvious choice–but it would also be the right one!

Originally released in 1975, it reached the top spot on the UK charts for the first that same year.

And then, following the unfortunate death of Freddy Mercury, it reached the top again in 1991.

Its popularity and place in popular culture has only grown in the 30+ years since then, reaching over 2.5 billion streams on Spotify alone.

 
One Hit Wonder band from the nineties: Chumbawumba

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- hold the Guinness record for the album with the longest name in history (take a breath):

The Boy Bands Have Won, All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether From Lack of Ideas or Exaggerated Respect.

It would help if you Never tried to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass.
The People Who Try to ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own.

Because Then It Dies,
Then It’s Over,
Then It’s Done,
and the Boy Bands Have Won. I did not touch it.
 
PETA - The International Animal Rights Organization, asked the Pet Shop Boys to change their name to Rescue Shelter Boys.

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- The duo refused with typical British politeness.

"Peta Europe has written to Pet Shop Boys with a request they are unable to agree to," reads a post on the band's official website.
But the band admits the request "raises an issue worth thinking about".

Peta's letter requests the name change because of the cruelty it alleges takes place in the pet trade.
If the band were to agree to the name change, it continues, it would "encourage your millions of fans to consider giving a home to an abandoned or unwanted animal from an animal shelter".

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were inspired to call themselves the Pet Shop Boys by friends who worked in a pet shop in west London
 
Quote - "I used to be a choir boy in Westminster abbey, a soloist, then my voice broke. That was my first training in showbiz."
= Keith Richards 1981
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MY FIRST JOB = Jet Black, The Stranglers
= Ice cream salesman
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MY FIRST JOB = Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance
= Comic book artist
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Quote -"The best of all possible worlds would be one in which everybody would love me at all times."
= Neil Diamond
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MY FIRST JOB = Carol Decker, T’Pau
= Life guard
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Quote -"We like to play dominoes before a show."
= Corey Taylor, Slipknot
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