Post a Surprising Musical Fact.

[blueish swede]

Islands in the Stream, by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, was written by the Bee Gees.

 

[Marklr]

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.

Education.

 

[Marklr]

Kathy Dennis wrote EVERY pop song since 1990.

Category:Songs written by Cathy Dennis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Kathy Dennis wrote EVERY pop song since 1990.

Category:Songs written by Cathy Dennis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As well as being in every British council house cock film made in that decade as well. Respect

 

[-dabz-]

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.

Are you sure it wasn't A-harchimedes?

 

[-dabz-]

TV Science bloke Prof Brian Cox was in 2 bands:

hair rock outfit Dare (far right)

And cheese dance outfit D Ream (far left)

The keyboard player in Dare was in Thin Lizzy. His mum was Phil Lynott's mums hairdresser and got the gig via the connection.

 

[beehive_bob]

Toni Basil, probably best known for her hit 'Mickey', choreographed Bowie's Diamond Dogs tour eight years previously

 

[-dabz-]

Education.

Agreed. Cut and pasted with laser precision...A lesson for us all...:O)

 

[shackattack]

2.58 minutes into the recording of " hey jude" you can hear Paul say " oh fucking hell " after a mistake. Some say it was John however. You have to listen really carefully but it is in there

 

[levets]

Saw Dare live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Oldham, around 86/87,
if I remember right, the lead singer was originally in Thin Lizzy, they released one decent song called Abandon.

Yep, a lad from Hollinwood called Darren Wharton

 

[J.G.Blue.]

The Boys Are Back in Town song by Thin Lizzy is thought to have been written about a bunch of criminals who used to drink it the Clifton Grange Hotel in Whalley Range,
Phil Lynotts mum used to help run the place & Phil used to drink in there sometimes, two members of the gang were nicknamed Jimmy the Weed & Johnny the Fox.

 

[levets]

The keyboard player in Dare was in Thin Lizzy. His mum was Phil Lynott's mums hairdresser and got the gig via the connection.

Darren Wharton

 

[Marklr]

It's a big fat myth that Factory Records lost 5p for every copy of Blue Monday sold. It made millions!

 

[-dabz-]

The Boys Are Back in Town song by Thin Lizzy is thought to have been written about a bunch of criminals who used to drink it the Clifton Grange Hotel in Whalley Range,
Phil Lynotts mum used to help run the place & Phil used to drink in there sometimes, two members of the gang were nicknamed Jimmy the Weed & Johnny the Fox.

My brother was part of it. Johnny D used to take me to school in his Jag when I was a kid. I grew up with Ant D, their nephew, we were in the same class for years. Jimmy took me to my first Lizzy gig and invited me to meet the band at his pub, The Kensington in town...I declined, kicking myself to this day. Coincidently, it was Darren Wharton's first gig with the band and i sat next to his and Phil's mum who I'd been introduced to when we arrived. Lovely lady was Phyllis.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

My brother was part of it. Johnny D used to take me to school in his Jag when I was a kid. I grew up with Ant D, their nephew, we were in the same class for years. Jimmy took me to my first Lizzy gig and invited me to meet the band at his pub, The Kensington in town...I declined, kicking myself to this day. Coincidently, it was Darren Wharton's first gig with the band and i sat next to his and Phil's mum who I'd been introduced to when we arrived. Lovely lady was Phyllis.

One of lifes big regrets I should imagine? mind you it could have turned you into a right piss head!

 

[Protein Junkie]

Legendary Yes guitarist Steve Howe played on a few tracks on Frankie goes to Hollywood’s two big albums

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Education.

Took me a while to be able to hear the difference.

 

[blueish swede]

Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar and studied at Oxford. He was also a helecopter pilot and captain in the US army.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Agreed. Cut and pasted with laser precision...A lesson for us all...:O)

Some was, but it was one of the hardest things for me to learn.

 

[-dabz-]

One of lifes big regrets I should imagine? mind you it could have turned you into a right piss head!

I was about fifteen and had no money so I felt like a ponce if I'd have gone..I felt out of my depth to be honest...But as young guitarist who had meticulously learned all their songs and solo's a bit of me does wonder if I could have put a marker down to replace Snowy White, the guitarist at the time who I didn't think fitted the band...Hey ho, I'll never know.. Darren was only seventeen after all and I think so was Robbo when he got the job...