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Leo Fender, inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster, could not play guitar.

In 2016, Mozart sold more CD’s than Beyonce, Adele and Drake!

Researchers found a very amazing fact about music that; heartbeat mimics the musical beats. Our heartbeat, blood pressure and respiration synchronize with musical beats and tempo. It could trigger the heartbeat, blood pressure and nerve contraction and relaxation along with it.

With music, you learn better:

Music greatly impacts and boosts our learning capabilities. Listening music, while reading or learning something could trigger the learning and you can memorize the stuff in a better way as compared to be in complete silence. It helps us to attain concentration and focus and this state help us to process and learn more information than usual.  It helps you to motivate and perform the task more efficiently.

Here’s another series of posts that I like to share with everyone. I usually do one Music Fact TidBit per post but I’m going to put a few in this post:

* Researchers found a very amazing fact about music that your heartbeat mimics the musical beats. Our heartbeat, blood pressure and respiration synchronize with musical beats and tempo. It could trigger the heartbeat, blood pressure and nerve contraction and relaxation along with it.

*Researchers at the University of Leicester found that cows produce 3% more milk when they listen to relaxing music.

*Scientist in South Korea proved that playing music, especially classical to plants helps them grow faster.

In the 50’s, Little Richard kicked Jimi Hendrix out of his band for stealing the spotlight: Jimi wouldn’t wear the uniform Richard had imposed (since he wanted all the attention to his figure) and the audience was delighted with his guitarist’s eccentric way of dressing.

In 2007, Rihanna had a huge worldwide hit with “Umbrella”. However, the song had originally been offered to Britney Spears and Mary J Blige who both passed on it.

The solo in The Beatles ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ is actually played by Eric Clapton.  He was never credited on the album.

Before being given to Britney Spears…..Baby One More Time was offered to both Backstreet boys and TLC.

U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday originally started with the phrase “Don’t talk to me about the rights of the IRA” but was ultimately changed to “I can’t believe the news today” because U2 was afraid that their peace calling would be misunderstood.

The first US number one for Motown was ‘Please Mr. Postman’ by The Marvelettes released in 1961. A couple of years later they had another number one by Stevie Wonder called ‘Fingertips’

Johnny Cash’s estate was approached by an advertising company asking for permission to use “Ring Of Fire” on an ad for hemorrhoid cream. The request was refused.

In December 2002, ten of Ray Charles’s 12 children attended a lunch with their father, at which the star presented each of them with a check for $1 million.

Island Records was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall. The label was named after 1955 Alec Waugh novel, Island In The Sun (later a hit song for Harry Belafonte). The company moved to the UK in May 1962 and, until Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989, was the largest indie record label in history.

Pink Floyd performed under various monikers in their early years, including Tea Set, Sigma 6, The Screaming Abdabs and Leonard’s Lodgers (after their landlord Mike Leonard).