Post a Surprising Musical Fact.

[-dabz-]

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

Why? What do you play?...I'm guessing piano?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Why? What do you play?...I'm guessing piano?

At the time it was clarinet, but concentrated on singing more at uni.

 

[feelymcfeel]

Backing vocals on Can You Feel The Love Tonight by Elton John from The Lion King soundtrack, which won the Best Original Song Oscar, were done by:

Rick Astley,
Gary Barlow,
Kiki Dee,

and none other than Freddie Krueger himself Robert Englund.

 

[Green18]

Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas and Keith Moon from The Who died 4 years apart from each other.
Both were 32 when they died.
They both died in the same apartment in Mayfair which was owned by Harry Nillson

 

[MellowJoe]

Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas and Keith Moon from The Who died 4 years apart from each other.
Both were 32 when they died.
They both died in the same apartment in Mayfair which was owned by Harry Nillson

So you're saying Harry Nilsson is a double murderer?

 

[Kinkybyname]

Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood share a writing credit for Radiohead's Creep, which was slightly nicked off the Hollies' hit The Air That I Breathe

 

[Kinkybyname]

if you play Bowie's Life On Mars right to the very end you can hear an old-fashioned landline phone ringing

 

[Kinkybyname]

Lindisfarne's Ray Jackson played the mandolin outro on Rod Stewart's Maggie May

 

[Marklr]

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

You have to have good ears. Mine are shaped like Spocks.
Here's one for you...why do some chords have two different names? Like...F sharp is also a G flat. What's the difference?

 

[BongoBlue]

Not really a surprising musical fact but I am a sometime percussionist (Hence my name on here) and occasional singer. My last time playing in Ireland before I left for the US permanently in 1989 was in a bar in my hometown in West Cork with a pretty good lineup. As two of them are sadly deceased now, it will never happen again.

Bass - Noel Redding of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience. (Settled in my hometown back in 1977 and never left.)
Drums - Mitch Mitchell - ditto; he was visiting Noel at the time. Only time I ever met him.
Guitar - Tom McGuinness - Manfred Mann and McGuinness Flint. (Has relatives in the area.)
A couple of very good local musicians and singers.
And lil' old me - without a fucking camera.

A hell of a going away gig it was.

 

[Ashleymcduff]

The Beatles are Shit

 

[blueparrot]

Mark Ronsons step father

is guitarist Mick Jones, not that one ,this one

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You have to have good ears. Mine are shaped like Spocks.
Here's one for you...why do some chords have two different names? Like...F sharp is also a G flat. What's the difference?

They are enharmonically the same, ie they sound the same, but are defined based on the tonic key of the piece.

Think of it as musical grammar. There, their and they’re all sound the same, but are used in different contexts.

A caveat to that is that a string player (violin etc) would say that they actually sound slightly different and if you are singing with a string orchestra, then the singers need to sharpen sharps more than they naturally would and flatten flats more too.

 

[Jazzman]

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.

The Quality Street gang

 

[-dabz-]

Not really a surprising musical fact but I am a sometime percussionist (Hence my name on here) and occasional singer. My last time playing in Ireland before I left for the US permanently in 1989 was in a bar in my hometown in West Cork with a pretty good lineup. As two of them are sadly deceased now, it will never happen again.

Bass - Noel Redding of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience. (Settled in my hometown back in 1977 and never left.)
Drums - Mitch Mitchell - ditto; he was visiting Noel at the time. Only time I ever met him.
Guitar - Tom McGuinness - Manfred Mann and McGuinness Flint. (Has relatives in the area.)
A couple of very good local musicians and singers.
And lil' old me - without a fucking camera.

A hell of a going away gig it was.

I spoke to Hughie Flint a few years back. He was from Solway road in Wythenshawe. Great story mate.

 

[Marklr]

They are enharmonically the same, ie they sound the same, but are defined based on the tonic key of the piece.

Think of it as musical grammar. There, their and they’re all sound the same, but are used in different contexts.

A caveat to that is that a string player (violin etc) would say that they actually sound slightly different and if you are singing with a string orchestra, then the singers need to sharpen sharps more than they naturally would and flatten flats more too.

ahhh...now it makes complete sense.
Actually..I get it. On an acoustic guitar, there's no difference, but in an orchestra, there would be a slight difference.

 

[TueartsOHK]

I’m sure these won’t be a surprise to most people…

Nigel Harrison - bassist for Blondie was born in Stockport
You’re so Vain features backing vocals by Mick Jagger (well I didn’t know)
Eddie Van Halen started on the drums and his brother on guitar until they both realised where their talents lay.
‘39 the folk song on Queen’s A Night at the Opera is actually a science fiction story about time travel

 

[mac]

Muck Hucknall from Simply Red is an anagram of I've smelt Charlie Dimmocks poo shute.

 

[oakiecokie]

The Hollies and their hit "Carry Ann" was originally "Marianne" after Marianne Faithful, but they decided at the last moment that they didn`t have the balls to sing about her.
Real pity because in her heyday she was a doll.

 

[PinkFinal]

Benazir Bhutto was a member of Mott The Hoople's fan club

Google it

Life is truly stranger than fiction