Post a Surprising Musical Fact.

[oakiecokie]

Bob Holness did not play the saxophone on Baker Street contrary to popular belief.

 

[stonerblue]

Freddy Mercury was a woman.

 

[jazzy]

The earliest recording of music known to exist. Recorded In 1888 is Arthur Sullivan's song 'The Lost Chord'

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

There are three main types of augmented sixth chords, commonly known as the Italian sixth, the French sixth, and the German sixth.

The Italian sixth (It+6 or It6 or ♯iv6) is derived from iv6 with an altered fourth scale degree. This is the only augmented sixth chord comprising just three distinct notes; in four part writing the tonic pitch is doubled.

The French sixth (Fr+6 or Fr4 3) is similar to the Italian, but with an additional tone. The notes of the French sixth chord are all contained within the same whole tone scale lending a sonority common to French music in the 19th century (especially associated with impressionistic music)


The German sixth (Ger+6 or Ger6 5) is also like the Italian, but with an added tone.
In Classical music, however, it appears in much the same places as the other variants, though perhaps less often because of the contrapuntal difficulties outlined below. It appears frequently in the works of Beethoven, and in ragtime music. The German sixth chord is enharmonically equivalent to a dominant seventh chord though it functions differently.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Bob Holness did not play the saxophone on Baker Street contrary to popular belief.

Correct.
Danny Baker was NME editor at the time and produced the weekly Thrills column which was a light hearted review of what rock / pop stars had got up to in the previous week with the odd spoof story thrown in for good measure - the Bob Holness story being one of them.....
The Sun picked it up and ran with it as fact....

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Johnny Marr changed his name from Maher to Marr because the drummer of Buzzcocks was also named John Maher

 

[BimboBob]

A-ha were Norwegian physicists in the early 80's.Being a country a bit behind the rest of the world they got their name when their lead singer Horton Market jumped into a hot bath and had to leap out shouting "a-ha" and subsequently discovered he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged.

 

[BimboBob]

The Monkees were all in fact Monkeys apart from Davey Jones who was a tall upright metal box used for storage in workplaces up and down the country.

 

[Elbow beards]

The high pitched girls voice in wheatus's 'teenage dirt bag' is actually the lead singers voice and not Mena Suvari (the fit one out of American beauty) as I thought

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

Charlie Drake released a novelty record in 1975 “You Never Know” co-written by Peter Gabriel who also provided backing vocals with Phil Collins on drums and Robert Fripp on guitar.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

TV Science bloke Prof Brian Cox was in 2 bands:

hair rock outfit Dare (far right)

And cheese dance outfit D Ream (far left)

 

[crublue1]

Correct.
Danny Baker was NME editor at the time and produced the weekly Thrills column which was a light hearted review of what rock / pop stars had got up to in the previous week with the odd spoof story thrown in for good measure - the Bob Holness story being one of them.....
The Sun picked it up and ran with it as fact....

Stuart maconie claims to have actually written the article.

 

[Elbow beards]

Bob Holness did not play the saxophone on Baker Street contrary to popular belief.

But he was the first James Bond.

 

[threespires]

Charlie Drake released a novelty record in 1975 “You Never Know” co-written by Peter Gabriel who also provided backing vocals with Phil Collins on drums and Robert Fripp on guitar.

That is indeed a bit mad. Some wag has put it on youtube with the image being Peter Gabriel's first album cover but with Charlie Drake's head in the windscreen instead.

 

[oakiecokie]

That is indeed a bit mad. Some wag has put it on youtube with the image being Peter Gabriel's first album cover but with Charlie Drake's head in the windscreen instead.

Hello my darlings.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Morrissey, Green Day, Texas, Radiohead, Muse, Foo Fighter, Guns n Roses, Amy Winehouse, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley and Nirvana have never had a UK number 1

 

[dronefromsector7G]

J Lo once released a recording of herself farting for 4 minutes and it got to no1 and stayed there for a year. The video was just her bum with gas coming out

 

[Blue Mist]

John Wayne's first name was Marion.

What do you mean that's not a musical fact ?....... it is if you sing it.

 

[Blue Mist]

Bob Dylan wrote Rock Me Mama Like A Wagon Wheel. From the sessions that produced Knocking On Heaven’s Door in 1973, here’s Bob‘s unfinished work.

Was that when Wagon Wheels were full size ?

Just askin'

 

[dickie davies]

Nantucket Sleighride is a song about cannibalism

Most of you FOC's will recognise the tune from Weekend World