Did You Know?
Well, then there's lots of stuff you didn't know! Check out what I managed to dig up!
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| Tasty Tid-Bits: Did You Know? |
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| - Did you know that the solo George Harrison song "What Is Life" was featured in two, count em, TWO recent movies? Well, then there's lots of stuff you didn't know! Check out what I managed to dig up! |
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| 1. George Harrison had the best solo career of all four Beatles, beginning with the booming sales of his first album, the three record "All Things Must Pass". | |||||||||
| 2. The Eric Clapton song "Layla" was written for Clapton's best friend George Harrison's first wife Patti Boyd. | |||||||||
| 3. The name "Led Zeppelin" was actually thought up by Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who said that the band's career would go over as a "led zeppelin" in referrence to a sinking, led-filled blimp. | |||||||||
| 4. The Guess Who song "American Woman" was actually first done in front of a live audience at a concert. Group member Burton Cummings began singing and picking the song out on guitar, and the lyrics pertained to "American girls growing up too fast." The song was their only number one hit in America. | |||||||||
| 5. If you matched the timing of the famous Pink Floyd album "Dark Side of the Moon" to the Wizard of Oz soundtrack right at the boom where the scarcrow's song begins, everything starts and stops and is played at the exact same time. | |||||||||
| 6. It is said that Keith Moon of The Who died of a drug overdose in the same room that Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Papas died in by choking on a sandwich four years prior. | |||||||||
| 7. Bassist for the Who John Entwistle and Beatle guitarist and lead singer John Lennon share the same birthday but different years; Lennon being October 9th 1940, and Entwistle following four years after in 1944. | |||||||||
| 8. All four Beatles kept diaries. John Lennon's uniqueness? The fact that he wrote "Did I mention I'm naked?" at the end of each entry. | |||||||||