Morrison went to UCLA; Stone went to NYU. And before Morrison died, The Doors were one of many once-influential rock bands with declining record sales. Not an obvious choice for a biopic…
Cool. I didn’t know this.
In my three years here I’ve never once asked for a cite, so I’ll refrain this time too. 
But… where did you hear or read this? I just spent a half hour or so Googling and came up empty.
Thank you very much.
Correction noted. However, just because the Doors were past their prime doesn’t mean Stone wouldn’t still want to tell their story. Roger Ebert, this review and this review claim that Stone pitched a Doors screenplay to Morrison while he was still alive.
Not a big fan of SV or TMBG. But a big fan of punk rock.
Hedrick Smith covers it in his now classical book “The Russians.” He writes about rock music and how desperate the Soviet youth were to hear it. Very interesting reading, and Smith himself saw a production of “Rock and Roll at Dawn.”
Are you sure you didn’t mean Colm Wilkinson? I saw him in Phantom Of The Opera.
Canadian crooner Richard Marx sang backup for Madonna on the track "White Heat.
Canadian gay porn director Bruce LaBruce directed the music video for Rusty’s song Misogyny, starring Bruce’s muse Tony Ward, who was also in Madonna’s banned Justify My Love video (and later fathered a child with her).
Madonna co-wrote Michael Jackson’s single “In The Closet”, but he changed some lyrics that made him “uncomfortable”.
Tori Amos and Michael Stipe collaborated on a song for the film Don Juan DeMarco that was scrapped for being “too strange” (well, duh).
To be fair, Prince did play guitar on the track. He co-wrote and duetted with Madonna on Love Song on the Like A Prayer album.
When Madonna was told she needed another track before the album would be complete, she said; “I got nuthin’”. They ended up creating Act Of Contrition together, which is Like A Prayer being played backwards while Prince riffs on the guitar and Madonna prays the Act Of Contrition.
Also, in 1984, when Madonna was breaking off her romance with Prince and also dating Sean Penn, Sean punched a hole in the wall during an argument with her about Prince. Madonna called him up and told The Purple One that the hole was his fault, so he’d better come over and patch it up. And he did. :eek:
Well, I’ll be darned. Just because something’s unlikely doesn’t mean it’s not true.
Of course, nowhere does it say that Morrison was reading the script when he died, but at this point that’s just a nitpick.
Interesting indeed. Thanks. Like you, I’d love to have more information about his “rewrite”.
Ummm, this can’t be right!!
According to the books I read, the average is less that have of that!!
True, but it happened long after Mike joined the Monkees.
Paul also helped produce a song he wrote “Come and Get It”, by Badfinger.
Earlier, Paul had written the song “Woman” for Peter and Gordon under a pseudonym to prove how good a song writer he was. The song was a minor hit but then again most of Peter and Gordon’s hits were minor ones and also pennned by Paul anyway. :eek: 
Exapno is correct, of course, but I’ve always thought it was cool enough that two covers, performed by different people, of hit songs by the same band were in the top 10 the same week. I mean, what are the odds?
Another trivia bit: I believe Jim Steinman (who wrote the huge-selling album Bat Out of Hell for Meat Loaf) is the only songwriter to have 3 songs in the Billboard Top 10 in the same week. They were all performed by different acts: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler, Read 'em and Weep by Barry Manilow, and Love Out of Nothing At All by Air Supply. I don’t have a Billboard subscription to verify, but I remember Casey Kasem telling me this back when it happened.
The Beatles’ songs written by Paul “The Night Before” and “She’s A Woman” were written at the same time. Both songs use the same bass line.
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Unless there’s a fine distinction I’m missing (the “performed by different acts” stipulation maybe?) this isn’t true. The Beatles held the top 5 places on the Billboard chart on April 4, 1964, and four of those were Lennon-McCartney numbers. Later, when Saturday Night Fever was taking off, I believe the brothers Gibb did it again, with four Bee Gees singles in the top ten and the fifth being Yvonne Ellman’s version of “If I Can’t Have You.”
Casey appears to have been misinformed. Back in 1984, I had a book about Billboard #1 hits of the Rock era (it catalogued them all, beginning with Rock Around the Clock, and ending with We are the World, the Quincy Jones-Mchael Jackson collaboration that was recorded as a fund-raiser for victims of a famine in East Africa – it was recorded following an American Music Awards ceremony, and had lots of pop stars and Dan Ayckroyd). Anyway, each page lists the week that the song hit number one, tells how long it was there, and also tells what the top five songs were. I can no longer name the songs, but one week in 1964, all five of the top five were Beatle’s records. One presumes that Lennon and McCartney wrote them (although, it is possible that two or more were covers).
The next entry in the book shows that in order to get the Beatles out of the number one slot, it took Louis Armstrong’s version of Hello, Dolly!
New bit of trivia:
Bruce Springsteen was brought to national prominence by the same man who “discovered” Bob Dylan: John Hammond; who also “discovered” and was the brother-in-law of Benny Goodman.
You should doubt me; I totally made that up. As far as I know, Electro-Harmonix (which is a real company) never made an amp called the “Small Troll,” with a knob going to 11 or any other number.
I’m sorry, I saw some rock trivia urban legends posted in this thread (all debunked pretty quickly, I might add) and couldn’t resist inventing one of my own. Please don’t kill me.
One his last album “Blue Moves” Elvis recorded a song called “Easy for You to Say,” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
On his album “My Life for a Song” Placido Domingo recorded a song called “I Don’t Tallk To Strangers,” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The melody was later used in Phantom of the Opera as "All I Ask of You.
I don’t talk to strangers.
It seems a waste of time to hear
People you don’t know recall a life you won’t know.
Those who talk to strangers
Might not intend a crime
But then, all such occasions, are dangerous situations.
Tiny nitpick: Elvis’ last album before he croaked was Moody Blue. Blue Moves was an album by Elton John.