Musical titbits and items of interest

The mighty final chord of The Beatles' "A Day In The Life" was played by ten hands in three pianos simultaneously:
Lennon's,
Mc Cartney's,
Starr's,
George Martin's
and Mal Evan's (their roadie).

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Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) has Bonzo's (Led Zeppelin's drummer) symbol, three intersecting symbols tattooed on his forearm.
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London Calling" was part of a catch phrase ("Good morning America, this is the London Calling!") of a BBC show during World War II, of which the The Clash's guitarists Joe Strummer was a fan.
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Steve Morse's (Deep Purple) guitar has 11 different pickup positions.
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Van Halen's "5150" is named after Eddie's Peavey 5150 amp, which is built exclusively for him.
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Mitch Mitchell, The Jimi Hendrix Experience's drummer took his first drum lessons with Jim Marshall (that's right, the guy who made amps!)
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Neil Young wrote "Rockin' In The Free World" after he heard one of the members of Crazy Horse say he liked playing in Europe rather than the Middle East better, because ....

"It's better to rock in the free world".

The song became sort of an anthem but really refers to the "pride and guilt of being American".

 
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.

 
Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden),
Steve Morse and
Carter Beauford (Dave Mathews Band's drummer)
- all share an uncommon passion: on their free time they love to fly aeroplanes (and of course they own a few).
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Jim Morrison found the name "The Doors" for his rock band in the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors Of Perception", which extolls the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
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The Van Halen brothers were born in the Netherlands and trained as concert pianists. The name of the band was originally Mammoth.
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The group UB40 took their name from the form used by the unemployment office in Britain.
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The money used to score the heroin that killed Sid Vicious was given to him by his mother, who was under the impression he was going to use the money to just buy cocaine
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitarist on David Bowie's "Let's Dance" album
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Malcom Young used to play the solos in AC/DC, until one day he told his brother "You do them...cuz they keep busy the hand I use for drinking!".
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Eric Clapton popularized a setting for lead called "Woman Tone", which basically consists of the neck pickup with tone control rolled back, and is also used by Slash.
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Prince was a huge fan of Hendrix. The song "Purple Rain" is an alegory to "Purple Haze".
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"Yesterday" first appeared in 1965. By 1967, there were 466 versions of the song. Nowadays there are more than 4000 versions.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.
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A few of the band members Of the Yardbirds were in a pub discussing what name to use for what would become Led Zepp.
Someone suggested "The New Yardbirds", and The Who's drummer Keith Moon replied: "That will go over like a lead balloon!".
Then they changed balloon for zeppelin nad decided to spell it Led so people in the US wouldn't try to pronounce it "leed"
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The playing time as for "Stairway To Heaven" is longer than it took Plant & Page to write it (they needed one more song for the album.)
Yes - The song is FILLER!

 
Bono got his nickname from a hearing-aid store.
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The Rolling Stones' tongue logo design was inspired by the Indian Hindu goddess Kali The Destroyer.
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Angelina Jolie's uncle, Chip Taylor, wrote the song "Wild Thing."
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Wings recorded Red Rose Speedway at Abbey Road Studios the same time Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side Of The Moon.
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Before joining KISS, Vinnie Vincent wrote the soundtracks for Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi.
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