Did you know....?


Little known facts about music, musicians, and their work.

Did you know that Nora Jones was Ravi Shankar's daughter?
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Mo Tucker of Velvet Underground Fame went on to be.... 

a greeter at Walmart. Ouch.
....that Mick Jagger and Ron Wood used to collaborate on song writing way before he joined the band.  And furthermore, did you know Ronnie wrote most of the song "Its only rock and roll" and gave it to Mick to finish with Keith....
...that the Beach Boys were supposed to be called The Pendletones after the Pendletone woolen shirts that were fashionable at the time?  And that the only Beach Boy who actually surfed was Dennis Wilson?
Pendletons in Southern California? A little too warm, I would think.

...That David Bowie's first wife, Angela, claims the Stones' song Angie resulted from her catching Bowie & Jagger in bed together nude?
The Beach Boys are pictured wearing Pendleton shirts on the cover of their 1st album, Surfin' Safari. The shirt was popular with surfers and surfer-wanna-be's at the time, which was a factor in them choosing that as their name.
Stewart Copeland played polo against Prince Charles.

The funny disharmonious chord at the beginning of Roxanne was an accident when Sting leaned against the piano - they kept the take!

Phil Collins discovered the famous gated drum sound quite by accident.