yorks5stringer Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 (edited) When D-Ream split up, plain but smiley Brian Cox was reduced to busking piano in Manchester bars. His luck changed when he adopted the moniker of his heroes Longhair and Green and now he is never out of the UK media. Edited November 27, 2014 by yorks5stringer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Adams Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Leather clad rocker Suzi Quatro served an apprenticeship at the Audi factory in her native Detroit. It's not know what part of the works she worked on. She later worked for Del Monte and perfected the process of sealing one tin inside another which became the inspiration for her 1973 hit, Devil Gate Drive(L). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyDog Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 MC5 originally wrote "Kick Out The Jams" whilst on holiday in Margate. The song was an expression of their extreme disappointment at finding no marmalade amongst the breakfast preserves at their B&B accommodation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Adams Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Unevenly coiffeured New Romantic Phil Oakey has a sister named Carrie, who is always popular in pubs and parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire5 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Not musically related,but Luke Skywalker of 'Star Wars' fame was known as Luke Skytoddler when he was much younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Jason Orange left Take That to join Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, alongside Fiona Apple, Herbie Flowers and Robert Plant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 David Bowie, Stanley Clarke and Strawberry Switchblade are set to record a cover of Cuts Like a Knife, to be engineered by Bob Cleaver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyDog Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 (edited) [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1417095455' post='2617038'] Jason Orange left Take That to join Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, alongside Fiona Apple, Herbie Flowers and Robert Plant. [/quote] Weren't Moby Grape and Tangerine Dream involved in that too? Edited November 27, 2014 by UglyDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 [quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1417095816' post='2617042'] Weren't Moby Grape and Tangerine Dream involved in that too? [/quote] Briefly, before they left to form Juicy Lucy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 (edited) Due to his penchant for flamboyant sportswear, Kevin (Dexy) Rowland would often run during darkness to avoid critical comments. When a few other similar fashionistas joined him running...the rest they say, is history Edited November 27, 2014 by yorks5stringer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Zoot Money gave up his job as a cashier in a breakfast café to form his Big Roll Band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Both Thunder and Lightening Slim have clauses in their Touring Contracts that forbid them appearing on the same Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Jimmy Page was working as a Librarian when one day he picked up Bert Weedon's "Play in a Day". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 [quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1417089681' post='2616935'] Pop-Jazzers Steely Dan copyrighted the term "Black Friday" so every November 28th, they receive massive royalties which far exceed their album sales. Other sources of their income include the words "Divorce", "Years", "FM" and "Peg". [/quote] Allegedly... another telling has it that Black Friday is named after Rebecca's hit song... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Fats Domino blamed what was in retrospect a poorly judged week long course with Weightwatchers for his latter career loss of identity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Taking the stage together at Glasto next year will be a 70's beatnick piano playing jazzer, 50% of 80's synth pop duo Tubeway Army, and 80% of 90's boy band Five, Tom Waits Four Numan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Top session and John Schofield bassist Steve Swallow attributes his closing his eyes tightly shut when playing to his days as a Bird Food Taster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfretrock Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 The Black Keys got their name from their gear which they purchased in a Black Friday deal in 2001. The keyboards were a particularly good deal at 70% off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 The Penguin Café Orchestra were so named as many of the members worked at the Whipsnade Zoo Cafe, next to the Penguin House. Other Bands with origins in Zoos include: The Animals, The Monkees, Gorillaz, Dixie Hummingbirds, The Beatles, Snake Davis, Whitesnake, and The Byrds. Other Bands you may think of with animal names did not however work in Zoos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 "American Woman" Band "The Guess Who" never made it in the UK the way their namesakes "The Who" did. Tom Baker, Matt Smith, David Morrissey and Peter Capaldi are all household names and indeed bubble haired trouper Bonnie Langford who played on Terror of the Vervoids, often attends "Hoey" Conventions and is fond of singing "Total Eclipse of the Part" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ras52 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Harry Chapin was the third member of The Richard Carpenter Trio, alongside young siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter. However, when the big time beckoned, the deal was for Richard and Karen only, and Harry was unceremoniously edged out of the band that went on to multi-platinum success as The Carpenters. Harry later poured his bitterness into one if his best-known songs, If I Were a Carpenter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Climate change scientists assert that some of the most compelling evidence yet provided for global warming is that of the apparently coincidental demise of rappers Ice-T and Vanilla Ice in the mid-1990s. This theory is currently extended by a team from Thames Valley University who aim to identify whether the same global conditions were responsible for the failure of Liverpool-based Alt-Indie groovers The Icicle Works at around the same time. A counter argument is however proposed by the anti-global warming lobby which cites the fact that Aussie rockers Icehouse continue to tour and record as categorical evidence of the need for an alternative theory. They argue that their data suggest that crapness - and not rising sea levels - were the legitimate causal mechanism of the rappers' disappearance. Seal, Fish, The Eels, and Noah and the Whale are said to be anxious for issues around rising sea levels to be resolved at the earliest opportunity, as understandably was Sandy Shaw, whilst a spokesman for A Flock of Seagulls indicated that the band are keeping a keen eye on events. Bono has launched a charity appeal whilst Prince wasn't available for comment but has instructed several legal teams to investigate whether nature or God has infringed his intellectual property rights in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 (edited) Nicest man in Jazz (excluding Van Morrison and also Jamie Cullen who doesn't count as he is only 15 and not technically a Man) Courtney Pine was not born in London but actually the New Forest where his childhood instrument was a hand-crafted wooden penny whistle. Other bands with origins in Dendrology include The Beech Boys, Ash, Black Oak Arkansas and both Neon and Porcupine Trees. Britain's National Forest's are actually funded from the writing credits for every U2 song written...One, Two, Tree, Four. Edited November 28, 2014 by yorks5stringer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Adams Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Contrary to popular myth, Sandie Shaw did actually own a pair of shoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 My Bloody Valentine were formed after Guitarist Kevin Shields decided to make soon to be girlfriend Debbie Googe a homemade card for Valentines Day using a Stanley Knife to cut the card. Luckily Kevin was and still is a big fan of Django Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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