A fact about a famous song ...

[Dubai Blue]

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'Step On' by the Happy Mondays is in fact a cover version of an early 70s anti-apartheid song. You'd be surprised how many people don't know that.


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[glen quagmire]

Oooh a just a little bit. By Gina G. Was written by the controversial 'alleged' sex case eddie grant.

 

[MATCITY]

Gary Glittler wrote Kids in America,Kim Wilde thought it was about something totally different to what Glitter actually meant

 

[GStar]

 

[The Flash]

Alive - Pearl Jam

Describes the conversation Eddie Vedder had with his Mum when she revealed that the man he'd always thought was his Dad, and had recently died, was actually his step-dad.

 

[Carver]

RE: Dirty Old Town, Ewan MacColl

I was involved in an argument about where this was written about, I knew of course that it's about MacColl's hometown of Salford. There were the usual arguments about it being about Dublin, then one lad said 'It's about Wolverhampton'. After pissing myself laughing I asked if he'd listened to the lyrics and told him if you hear 'a siren from the docks' in Wolverhampton you've got damn good hearing.

 

[smeghead64]

All together now ...is also a song about football in world war one

A long way to Tipperary, was wrote by a guy called Jack judge in stalybridge no2 conservative club on the back of a cigarette packet one afternoon, for a five shilling bet, the next day it was sung in a concert hall and was then sang by the british soldiers of the first world war, rest my friends is history ! That's one thing Liverpool cant take away.

Stalyvegas also had The pubs with the shortest name, and also the longest name in the country.

The "Q" inn

The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn

 

[BlueHammer85]

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Stone Roses (who aren't shit btw) song Fools Gold:
The bass line, despite being the same all the way through the song, isn't sampled; he played it constantly for the whole song.

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I will survive by Gloria Gaynor was written by a man. Freddie Perren was sacked by Tamla Motown. He wrote this in reply to them.

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Oasis - Columbia.

Some people ask why is it called Columbia?

They wrote the song in 20 minutes, they didn't have a name for the song.

Noel said 'what hotel we in again?'

'Columbia'

Noel 'we'll call it Columbia'[/quote]


Wicked mate, my 2nd fave oasis song behind Slide Away, always wondered why it was called Columbia

 

[BlueHammer85]

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Oooh a just a little bit. By Gina G. Was written by the controversial 'alleged' sex case eddie grant.

<br /><br />-- Thu May 31, 2012 10:05 am --<br /><br />

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBm8IS15EM[/youtube]

Alive - Pearl Jam

Describes the conversation Eddie Vedder had with his Mum when she revealed that the man he'd always thought was his Dad, and had recently died, was actually his step-dad.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

"Do You Want To Know A Secret" which Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas took to No 1 was written by Lennon & McCartney. However although they recorded it they thought it was second-rate so they gave it to BJK, who was delighted to have been given a Beatles song, without realising why.