I’ve been listening to a lot of Richard Hawley lately & realised I did not know much about him other than the Pulp/Longpigs history. However, after some extensive reading (ok after a bit of googling), I discovered that he played guitar on the All Saints cover of Under The Bridge.
What titbits of music trivia have you discovered recently?
All Saints – Under The Bridge
Hawley is on most of the big Robbie hits as well innee? Including the terrible “fauxAsis” appearance of Old Before I Die on Top of the Pops.
Lindsey Buckingham, of t’Mac, made six – count ’em, six – solo studio albums between Buckingham Nicks (1973) and Buckingham McVie (2017).
I’ve never heard of any of ’em.
We’re still waiting for a CD issue of Buckingham Nicks (1973), aren’t we?
Officially yes, although it was “reissued” on the Big Pink label in Korea (I think) a few years ago and was available to buy on Amazon.
The story I heard is that it was unofficially remastered and released with the involvement and knowledge of the original producer and so the sound quality is actually top notch (I.e, it’s not a rip from the old vinyl).
I know a man that has a digital copy and so nudge nudge wink wink…. message me…….
In 1973 posho piano botherer Michael Nyman almost joined Hawkwind.
Not trivia, but prompted by @dave-amitri ‘s Young Americans post and the comments to it, I decided to listen to YA for the first time in a long time.
I am not a great reader of lyrics and I am pretty much content to hear what I hear, even it that’s not what the songwriter wrote. However, this time, while listening to the title track, I pulled up the lyrics and learned that it is not “she/he was a young American” as I thought, but “she/he wants the young American”.
I am still going to sing my version on the shower.
P.S. Young Americans is one of my fave Bowie albums. I was going to say that I know it inside out, but that it clearly not the case. What shall I say? … it is strongly impressed in my brain, however inaccurately.
P.P.S. I don’t like Across The Universe either.
Get on that thread, @Pjap! I felt like a lone voice extolling its beauty.
I think it’s beautiful. I just don’t listen to it much. Believe it or not I’d actually rather have the first Tim Machine album.
Tin Machine as well. Obviously any album by the Timster knocks this Bowie joker into a coked hat.
Sorry, cocked hat.
Tin Machine too.
Well I like the album
Used to be a shop in St. Ives (Cornwall) called Tim’s Tackle.
A local sand and gravel deliverer is Tim’s Tipper.
Bob Hoskins was a founder member of The Sugarhill Gang.
He left the group three months before they recorded Rapper’s Delight, in part so that he could start preparations for his role in The Long Good Friday. History could have played out very differently.
The Sugarhill Gang didn’t actually play on Rapper’s Delight. It was Milli Vanilli. The ‘Gang’ was just a front.
The Furious Five were actually rather cheerful.
The Treacherous Three – at least two of them were stand-up guys who you would trust with your life.
Bummers are deaf. Sorry, DEF.
Ruthless Rap Assassins do, in fact, have a member called Ruth..
Very good.
It is, however, not the real Kermit.
I said Ip – ip – ippity op
Well I ain’t as tall as the rest of the gang,
But I’m blindin’ with the Cockney rhyming slang.
It’s good to rap.
@mrxsg
You ain’t arf talkin’ a load of Jacksons, me old China!
I only found out recently that one of my favourite artists Joan as Police Woman recorded with another of my favourites Lloyd Cole on his Broken Record album. Here’s the title(ish) track…
The famous bass intro on You’re so Vain was played by none other than early Beatle fan and designer of the cover of Revolver Klaus Voormann
Trevor Peacock (he of No No No Yes Jim Trott in Vicar Of Dibley fame) wrote Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter for Hermans Hermits, That’s What Love Will Do for Joe Brown, and Gossip Calypso for Bernard Cribbins
Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, wrote a civil rights song which was recorded by Nina Simone. In marked contrast to the advice in his most celebrated work it was called Go Limp.
Lulu started her showbiz career as one of Tom Jones’ winkle pickers.
Do you mean his shoes or his personal army of seafood operatives?
You know you’re only saying that because you know the story about his (wink wink) winkle…
Legendarily wobbly legged Liverpool shot stopper, Jerzy Dudek is the cousin of 70s gutar slinger, Les Dudek
In Summer 1969, famed director John Carpenter served a short stint as babysitter for a Canadian-American family with whom he’d become friendly.
Both parents were working, so Carpenter, then nothing more than a promising film student, agreed to spend a few weeks looking after their 6 year old son, Michael.
Michael, as it turned out, was an extremely precocious child, who played a series of ferocious tricks on Carpenter, and at one point chased him round the garden waving a butcher’s knife.
Just under a decade later, when Carpenter made his breakthrough movie, Halloween, he named the film’s knife-wielding antagonist Michael Myers, in tribute to the little boy he’d once found so challenging.
Meanwhile, the real life Mike Myers grew up to become one of Hollywood’s most bankable comedians, starring in the Austin Powers and Shrek franchises.
The pair were reunited onstage in 2008 at a gala dinner for Carpenter, in the course of which Myers accidentally stabbed his former carer with a butter knife.
It’s the way you tell them, Bingo.
Until the butter knife incident , this all sounded so wonderfully plausible.
Extremely entertaining!
I feel like this should be true, but the universe never quite got around to arranging it.
What IS true is that Mike Myers made his start on Timmy Mallett’s Wide Awake Club, and befriended comedian Neil Mullarkey around the same time. Mullarkey makes a number of cameos in Myers films (as a customs agent in the first Austin Powers film, for example).
… and that Myers later accidentally stabbed Mallett with a silver antique letter opener at a reunion picnic in Canada.
Timmy Mallett’s first job on television was playing a xylophone with his head.
From this humble beginning a great career ensued.
The catchphrase “wacaday” was originally going to be something else until it was decided that it wouldn’t be appropriate for children’s television.
One of Chris Evan’s first jobs on radio was an assistant to Timmy Malllett.
2 annoying people in one small studio
The universe is unreliable. Stephen Hawking said that.
Probably
God does not play dice. Or any other nightclub or venue that operates a discriminatory policy viz the unvaccinated.
He leaves the dicing to us. And the julienning, come to that.
The son of British jazzman John Surman is married to the daughter of top US jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Many of the ECM album covers of the 1970s were designed and photographed by Klaus Frahm, father of top ambient keyboard maestro Nils Frahm.
No – it’s true!
Tom O’Connor’s son Steve Finan O’Connor was the former manager of Madness, All Saints and Neneh Cherry according to his father’s obituary in the i.
And he (Finan) is married to Olympic Gold medallist Denise Lewis Only found this out from Tom O’Connor’s obit!
Beethoven was a terrible dancer.
Not a great film either
I liked his poems though…
May be common knowledge to you English types but I was surprised to find out that Abbey Road Studios is named after the album not the other way around. It was formerly known as EMI Recording Studios.
Not common knowledge to me, thank you @cookieboy
I’m sure everyone else but me knew that Kate Bush has the same birthday (today, 30th July) as Emile Bronte.
Is that the the sisters’ lesser-known French male cousin?