22 Oct
Music Fact TidBit – Prince
Prince played 27 different instruments on his debut album “For You”.
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05 Aug
Music Fact TidBit – John Lennon
John Lennon’s eyesight was so poor that he was legally blind without his glasses!
30 Jun
Music Fact TidBit
Brian Eno’s real name is Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno!
09 May
Music Fact TidBit
According to all-known recorded sales data, the harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument.
24 Mar
Music Fact TidBit
Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye recorded most of the vocal parts for their 1973 duets album in separate studios. A pregnant Ross was worried that Gaye’s marijuana smoking would damage the health of her unborn child
02 Jan
Music Fact TidBit
The drum machine part on the recording of New Order’s Blue Monday – acknowledged as the best-selling 12-inch single of all time – had to be reprogrammed after the original was lost when the power lead was knocked out. The band have said that the first beat was better.
16 Dec
Music Fact TidBit
Chic’s Le Freak was originally called Fuck Off. These were the words that were sung as the main hook, but they were changed to ‘Freak out’ before the song was recorded.
Here’s the song if you don’t remember.
16 Nov
Music Fact TidBit
Between 1948 and 1960, blues legend John Lee Hooker released over 100 singles.
17 Oct
Music Fact TidBit
The earliest known example of musical notation was found on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), dated to around 1,800 B.C.
04 Oct
Music Fact TidBit
The world’s official fastest rapper is Ricky Brown. He holds the Guinness World Record by rapping 723 syllables in 41.27 seconds on his track No Clue, in January 2005, in front of a licensed speech therapist.
25 Jun
Music Fact TidBit – Village People
**The original Village People line-up was recruited via an advertisement that read “Macho types wanted: must have moustache”**
11 Jun
Music Fact TidBit – Leo Fender
Leo Fender, inventor of the Stratocaster and Telecaster, couldn’t play guitar!
