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.