Post your little known musical factoids

[Unravel_Morrison]

Nothing Compares 2 You was inspired by Prince's housekeeper.

 

[NoloBoro]

I have the most beautiful singing voice, unfortunately I’m painfully shy.

 

[El Guapo]

Errol Brown came up with one of Hot Chocolate’s biggest hits while standing in a queue in a bakery. Apparently it started with a quiche.

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Errol Brown came up with one of Hot Chocolate’s biggest hits while standing in a queue in a bakery. Apparently it started with a quiche.

Every pun's a winner

 

[HarryVegas]

Lennon nicked the melody for the verses of Happy Xmas (War is over) from the Peter, Paul & Mary folk song Stewball Was A Racehorse.

 

[dribble]

The Four Tops would have been on the Lockerbie flight ,if not for a late booking to appear on TOTPs

 

[Lefty]

Robert Smith said 'Push' was a song about when he used to wear a dress and travel on a train.

 

[Lefty]

And while I think on, bearing in mind the sad news about Alan Rankine the other day.

The Billy in 'Cut Here' is Smith's friend Billy MacKenzie, lead singer of The Associates, who committed suicide shortly after a recent encounter which led to MacKenzie appearing in their Mint car video.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

The Four Tops would have been on the Lockerbie flight ,if not for a late booking to appear on TOTPs

That was on the tribute to Lamont Dozier the other night

John Lydon and his wife Nora were late for the flight I believe.

 

[HarryVegas]

If we're talking The Four Tops, it's perhaps too widely known already for this thread, but Levi Stubbs was the talking/singing plant Audrey II, in Little Shop Of Horrors. Feed me!

 

[Nzedred]

That Liam Gallagher sings backing vocals on Nothing lasts Forever by Echo and the Bunnymen

 

[The Card Cheat]

And while I think on, bearing in mind the sad news about Alan Rankine the other day.

The Billy in 'Cut Here' is Smith's friend Billy MacKenzie, lead singer of The Associates, who committed suicide shortly after a recent encounter which led to MacKenzie appearing in their Mint car video.

The same Billy Mackenzie of whom The Smiths song "William it was really nothing ", was about apparently.

 

[SmallTown]

That Liam Gallagher sings backing vocals on Nothing lasts Forever by Echo and the Bunnymen

AH I always thought it was him, a very distinctive yeah yeah yeah! Thanks for confirming.

 

[Chutney]

It's reasonably well known that the image on the front of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures is a visualisation of radio waves emitted by a pulsar star.

What's less well known is that in 2019 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album's release, astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory pointed the radio telescope at the same pulsar to resample the emissions and create an updated version of the image.

Joy Division: 40 years on from ‘Unknown Pleasures’, astronomers have revisited the pulsar from the iconic album cover

When you look at the squiggly lines on Joy Division’s famous album cover, you’re seeing a record of lightning in outer space.

theconversation.com

 

[atypical_boro]

Nothing Compares 2 You was inspired by Prince's housekeeper.

I read it was about giving up smoking once.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

The Sex Pistols (Acne Rabble) weren't the first act to use a false name whilst appearing in Middlesbrough. The great Irish tenor, John McCormack performed using his wife's maiden name (Foley) and an Italian first name (Giovanni?).

 

[atypical_boro]

When John Squire left the Stone Roses, Slash offered to replace him but they turned him down.. preferring instead to fold the band.

sorry newy, and of course if I'm being pedantic they didn't fold until a while later.

https://twitter.com/x/status/323846788677242882

 

[italianjob]

Andrea from the Darling Buds stabbed me in the hand with a badge bought after the gig at the Boro Poly.
It was bliss

 

[dooderooni]

The famous Jaws riff is probably ripped off from Dvorak.

 

[Cecil J McTumshie]

Phil Collins produced and played drums on Adam and the Ants ‘Puss in Boots’