37 Fascinating Facts About the Music Industry

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37 Fascinating Facts About the Music Industry

What do you do when a critic calls your music “daft punky trash”? What do the Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay, Devo and the Windows startup music all have in common? Which of Michael Jackson’s songs took up so much mental real estate that he didn’t realize his car was on fire while he was driving it? Which book was the band Coldplay named after? What in the world has the oldest Jonas been up to for the last few years? 

The answers to these questions, and so many more, below!

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

MTV

Iron Maiden

Bruce Dickinson is my copilot IRON MAIDEN CRACKED.COM Dickinson has flown the band's jet while on tour on multiple occasions. Не even became a pilot (and marketing director!?) of an airline that, bewilderingly, no longer exists.

BBC

The Rolling Stones

Bill Wyman is a metal detector guy THE ROLLING STONES CRACKED.COM The bassist tapped out of the rockstar life in the 90's, and has since become a serious detecting enthusiast. Не even created his own top-of-the-line instrument, the Bill Wyman Signature Metal Detector.

BBC

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