Post your little known musical factoids

Enjoying the thread.As a kid I met Andre Previn when he played at the town hall. I told me mam I wanted to be Jewish
 
The Jackson’s album Destiny claimed all records were written by the Jackson’s. Cheekily “Blame it on the Boogie” was written by Englishman Mick Jackson.
 
Boogie nights, Always And Forever by Heatwave and Rock With You, Off The Wall and Thriller , Michael Jackson, were all written by an Englishman born in Cleethorpes in 1949 called Rod Temperton 🤷‍♂️
Love that.

Much more commonly known, but most of the musicians at Muscle Shoals studio who played on Otis Redding and Aretha’s classic early albums, were white.
 
Pete Doherty co-wrote the lyrics to 'Albion' with a man called Mark Beevers, who is originally from Saltburn. Mark was a creative writing tutor and Pete already had the idea for the song but asked Mark to help him to write it.

Years ago I performed the song at an open mic night in Saltburn and a man called Martin Nesbitt told me the story, that a man from Saltburn had actually written the song. I didn't know whether to believe him at the time but was shocked recently when Mark posted on a Pete Doherty fanpage on Facebook and confirmed it.
 
Mark contacted me via messenger at the time and also said this.....

Not really. He credited no one on their first two albums. On the original Libs version he sings my first name. I am also referred to in his first biog as poet Mark. However, I am straight. The author suggested I might be bisexual. Ha. Not so. Pete lied abouy the name Libertines. I suggested the name or moniker. I had offered the name to a local band headed by Duncan Libby. I suggested Libby-tines but he hated it. Also Albion and Good Ship Albion which Pete titled The Good Old Days were published in a magazine in Thailand and before that on the Evening Gazette's website by Dr Andy Croft. Their NOTICEBOARD page now no more. This was in 1997 before Libs released albums.

No. He rewrote it. Changed a line or two. and put a smaller verse of mine in the middle. Daisy chains etc. That is why he and Carlos say they cannot remember who wrote which lines. They are mine that I let him change a little so he could sing them. Oasis know and so do McFly. But McFly do not credit me either. They too mention me in a biog, Poet Mark who went to work in Thailand is in one of their biogs. I forget the title. Paul McCartney mentions me as his Victorian pier friend who gave him the lyric Jenny Wren in the biog Conversations with McCartney but does not credit me on record. In fact he recently said he wrote it! Ha. Contradicting himself. Conversations came out in 2015.Believe me, bands are ego trippers and pagiarists. But at least I got a mention and they all know each other are egotists and rip offs. Ha. That is why I wrote Narcissus for Pete. But he cannot spell probably. He spelt it Narcist or something like that. LOL.
 
woah? I always though Nick McCabe was lined up for the gig
Reni left in early 1995, John Squire left the band April 1996. Slash’s manager wanted to manage The Stone Roses, Slash announced in October 1996 that he was no longer a part of Guns N' Roses. Brown and Mani turned down the offer and dissolved the remains of the group October 1996.

I think it would have been interesting. Pretty sure Ian Brown and Mani regret not seeing how that might have turned out rather than dismissing the idea straight away over Slash’s leather trousers. Ian Brown’s first album ‘Unfinished Monkey Business’ had a few shots aimed at John Squire.

“I only ever wanted the one with the flag
But all you ever wanted was a sixty dollar bag
And a cheap limousine for your deep pile dream
On the highway”

The one with the flag being the first album and the sixty dollar bag being cocaine..

One a similar note John Squire’s band The Seahorses split up citing ‘creative differences’ - those creative differences were John Squire wanting to do a concept album based on the video game ‘Tomb Raider’

Make of that what you will.
 
Before Dire Straits Mark Knopfler was a journalist and one of his first tasks was to write Jimi Hendrix' obituary for the Yorkshire Evening Post.

He’s also got a dinosaur named after him - Masiakasaurus Knopfleri - by the scientists who discovered it.
 
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