Not a famous singer, but a famous actress. The one in the white shirt is Peter Watts, father of Naomi Watts.
Jim Gordon – rock session drummer extraordinare, who played for The Everly Brothers, The Beach Boys, Joe Cocker, Randy Newman, John Lee Hooker, Leon Russell, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominoes, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Traffic, and many others (let’s just say you’d have to be deaf not to have heard him play), and cowriter of “Layla” – developed paranoid schizophrenia and ended up murdering his mother. He was sent to jail for a life term; he still lives in a state mental hospital.
The royalties from Layla and other songs probably make him the richest murderer in jail (not counting drug lords).
I think it’s been done twice in this thread: posters have identified Mozart as the composer of the the tune now used to sing The ABC Song, Twinkle Twinkle and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
As far as I know, the tune is an early 18th-century French folk song, originally titled “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman”
Mozart did compose a series of 12 variations based on the the tune, which is probably why it’s commonly thought that he wrote the original.
Hence “repeat first two phrases”, dude.
Plausible. Our settings of “The Wheels On The Bus” are quite different, for a start.
Before they formed Steely Dan, Donald Fagan and Walter Becker were in a band with Chevy Chase.
The Pet Shop Boys song “King’s Cross” contains the lyrics:
Only last night I found myself lost
By the station called King’s Cross
Dead and wounded on either side
You know it’s only a matter of time
This song was released on September 7, 1987 - before the tragic fire that killed 31 people at King’s Cross-St. Pancras tube station on November 18 of the same year.
Rick had or has as big collection of great vintage guitars. If he has more of them and that makes him the Godfather, then so be it. But he’s far from alone in his obsession and certainly not the first.
After her drum was stolen before a show, Moe Tucker played garbage cans brought in from outside.
In other VU trivia, John Cale’s then girlfriend Betsy Johnson designed long sleeve fingerless gloves so he could play viola without his track marks showing.
That is simply amazing.
That’s all you got? 
The statement I made doesn’t contain references to him being the first or alone in his collecting - there are dozens of other collector/players, of course…
If you travel in collector’s circle - I do - you know that he is revered and looked at as someone who really knows his stuff (who was fundamental in finding out and documenting what “stuff” to know) and who’s collection is considered one of the best…
Cite ?
Reader’s Digest, about thirty years ago. This is a CS thread about musical trivia, FFS.
The best Smiths song, “This Night Has Opened My Eyes” is based upon the great UK movie A Taste of Honey, with several lines in the song coming directly from the film.
I hereby retract my earlier statement concerning Joe Perry being the lead vocal on Aerosmoth’s Dream On . I have searched & searched, and cannot find any evidence that it is true.
I actually found something that said he mostly disliked the song, because he liked the rock, not the ballads.
FWIW, I was told by an acquaintence, and it really does sound like two seperate individuals.
Now I have to pay back all those bar bets…
:smack:
Paul McCartney’s album “Ram” is actually credited to Paul and Linda McCartney. The reason was that McCartney (Paul that is) was embroiled in a lawsuit and all of his music-related assets and income were frozen. Sharing credit with Linda was the McCartneys’ only means of earning any income prior to the lawsuit being resolved. (I also believe Linda had to go into court and testify to her actual contributions to the album, but I’m fuzzy on the details.)
“The Hollow Man! The Masked Man!”
One of the more underrated bands of all time.
I kind of wish this was true, but there are several things wrong with it. D flat would have the same fingering in any octave, so it wouldn’t matter that there wasn’t a lower D-flat in the song, as there would almost undoubtedly be a higher d flat somewhere else in the song. And, from a purely logical standpoint, I’d imagine that a working second bassoon would simply fake those notes in order to avoid the conductor’s wrath.
Agreed. There are large parts of “Alarma” and “Kalhoun” that stand up against anything else that came out at the same time.
Lennon sang backup on that track as well, and in the last verse and chorus, especially on the fadeout, is pretty much duetting with Bowie.