CRF Trivia

[Big Ears]

Feel free to post your 'obscure' classic rock music facts here, even if they are a revelation to you and we already knew them!

For example:



Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all of the band's albums.

When a customer at a London record store asked for a copy of a record called 'My Bonnie', the owner did not have it in stock, so he went to see the band at the Cavern Club. He was so impressed that, within a few days, he signed them as manager and changed their name from The Silver Beatles to The Beatles. His name? Brian Epstein. The customer's name? We'll never know!



Harry Belafonte's 1956, Calypso, was the first album to sell 1,00,000 copies.

 

[Tray73]

Good idea for a thread Martin I'll have a think and see if I can think of any interesting tidbits

 

[Big Ears]

The term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937.

In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world record by disco dancing for 408 hours.



The Beatles' song Martha My Dear was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha.

 

[Big Ears]

Good idea for a thread Martin I'll have a think and see if I can think of any interesting tidbits

They'll come to you, when you don't want them!

 

[electric funeral]

The song N.I.B.is not Nativity In Black!! It's about Bill Ward's beard or goatee at that time.

 

[Big Ears]

Eric Clapton's real name is Eric Patrick Clapp, while John Denver's is John Henry Deutschendorf.

Uriah Heep's name is taken from a character in the Charles Dickens novel, 'David Copperfield’.



Jimi Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix, NOT James Marshall Hendrix. His paternal great-grandmother Zenora was a full-blooded Cherokee from Georgia who married an Irishman.

The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.

 

[Big Ears]

The only member of ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard is Frank Beard.



The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.

In 1976, Barry Manilow had a hit with 'I Write the Songs', written not by him, but by Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.

 

[Tray73]

Led Zeppelin broke the world record for the "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert" as 20 million requests went through online for their reunion show on December 10th, 2007 in London.

 

[Big Ears]

20 million people people bought Billy Ray Cyrus's album 'Some Gave All . . . ' This is more than for any Bob Marley album.

Celine Dion's 'Falling Into You' and Shania Twain's 'Come On Over' both sold more copies than any Queen, Nirvana or Bruce Springsteen record.

Katy Perry holds the same record as Michael Jackson for having the most number one singles from an album.

Ke$ha's 'Tik-Tok' sold more copies than any single by The Beatles.

 

[Big Ears]

Abbey Road by The Beatles was the top selling VINYL album in the US in 2011.

1. Abbey Road, Beatles 41,000
2. Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes 29,700
3. Bon Iver, Bon Iver 27,200
4. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons 26,800
5. King of Limbs, Radiohead 20,800
6. 21, Adele 16,500
7. For Emma Forever Ago, Bon Iver 16,200
8. Whole Love, Wilco 14,900
9. Brothers, Black Keys 14,200
10. El Camino, Black Keys 13,800