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101 more facts you never knew about music: part 1
More musical trivia to baffle your brain
The MusicRadar Team, Fri 17 Apr 2009, 10:22 am UTC
Back at the start of 2009 MusicRadar brought you a random collection of weird facts and trivia. We called it 101 facts you never knew about music.
But hey, now we have even more. Another 101, in fact.
Did you know that Freddie Mercury turned up in a Japanese anime/manga cartoon? Why Tina Turner is officially scary? Or why Eminem has a link to snooker?
Maybe you did, you smart bunnies. But MusicRadar now has more trivial (yet fascinating) facts to baffle you. Read on for…
101 more facts you didn't know about music
1. Elton John has played New York's Madison Square Garden 60 times, more than anyone in history.
2. Little Boots (birth name; Victoria Hesketh) once auditioned for UK TV talent show Pop Idol.
Little Boots: but she's not wearing boots at all?
3. George Harrison was the first Beatle to have a solo number one on both sides of the Atlantic, with My Sweet Lord.
4. Hey Jude was the first Beatles single to be released on their Apple label.
5. In the same song, you can hear John Lennon swearing in the background as he misses a chord, if you listen very carefully.
6. New Order lost money on each copy sold of the 12-inch single Blue Monday due to the expensive packaging and artwork. Bad business, as it was the best-selling 12-inch single ever.
New Order's Blue Monday 12-inch. Whenever they sold a copy, they actually got poorer
7. Eminem's My Name Is samples Labi Siffre's song I Got The. Which makes the bassist sampled on My Name Is one Dave Peacock of Chas And Dave. Now that's truly snooker loopy.
