35 Music Trivia Nuggets That Tumbled Down The Mountain Of Pop Culture History And Started An Avalanche

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35 Music Trivia Nuggets That Tumbled Down The Mountain Of Pop Culture History And Started An Avalanche
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If we were going to be buried in anything, we'd like it to be in a pile of highly interesting music facts from the whole of pop culture history. Think of the fun, exciting little musical tidbits we could learn while we waited patiently for someone to rescue us! 

Honestly, if help got here a little too quickly, we'd politely ask them to just hang around until we were finished reading…or until we got dangerously dehydrated or something. And for our final burial, please let it be in Frank Gorshin's Riddler costume from The 60's Batman TV show. It's not a lot to ask and how we want to be remembered.

 

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr thought his iconic song The Candy Man would bomb. His exact words: This record is going straight into the toilet. Not just around the rim, but into the bowl, and it may just pull my whole career down with it. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. CRACKED.COM

Sia

Every song but one on Sia's album This is Acting was originally written by Sia for another artist, and rejected by them. SiA THiS i3 A<TiNG The album

Paul McCartney was Inspired By Smokey Robinson

A song was inspired by Smokey Robinson CRACKED.COM Paul McCartney has claimed that the musical melody of the song, In My Life, was heavily inspired by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles' tune The Tracks of My Tears. John Lennon, of course, asserted that he wrote the song entirely himself.

Source: Rolling Stone 

Maroon 5

Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 It may seem like a relationship song, but it's actually about the band feeling suffocated by their record label who was making them write more songs. It paid off. CRACKED.COM

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Hip Hop Origins

The 1977 NYC blackout was great for hip hop. CRACKED.COM During 25 hours of chaos, lots of DJ equipment was stolen, and either kept for personal use or sold on the black market. As a result, aspiring hip hop artists suddenly had the hardware to pursue their dreams, and the genre exploded from its native Bronx.

The Smiths

The Smiths called it quits over a comedic COVER CRACKED.COM Morrissey threatened to get real mopey if the band wouldn't record a cover of the goofy song Work is a four-Letter Word. The band obliged, but guitarist Johnny Marr said that cover was what made him finally decide to quit the band.

Source: FMS

Rappin’ Rodney Dangerfield

RODNEY DANGERFIELD Rappin' Rodney was an opportunity for Dangerfield to dust off old jokes and set them to Casio drum machine beats. His lyrics are suprisingly sympatico with hip-hop artists wailing about lack of a respect. CRACKED COM

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35 Music Trivia Nuggets That Tumbled Down The Mountain Of Pop Culture History And Started An Avalanche

Rich Homie Quan

I GREATLY APOLOGIZE NOT ONLY TO BIGGIE SMALLS, BUT ALSO TO ALL OF MY FANS AND TO NEW YORK. While performing Get Money during a VH1 Hip Hop Honors tr

Frank Zappa

1M WHEN MTV ASKED FRANK ZAPPA ABOUT WHETHER THE '80S ROCK N' ROLL MUSIC IS MORE FORMULA THAN IT WAS BACK IN THE DAYS... ZAPPA REPLIED, IMEAN YOU HERE

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage had a rap/rock band. Dinklage was a member of a kinda douchey college band called Whizzy in the '90s. He sang and played cornet on SONG

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