The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know

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491. Thanks to more than 30 years of championship drinking, Bernard Sumner is fireproof, waterproof, and able to survive up to 16 days without food or sleep.

800. Bernard Sumner can create bees at will.

816. KT Tunstall's Mercury Prize nominated album Eye To The Telescope was originally going to be a concept album regarding the life and times of Galileo Galilee. However, Relentless record bosses convinced her that it wasn't such a good idea, and hadn't she written anything a bit more accessible? In a fit of pique she smashed down the dividing wall in her hotel room, and discovered a hidden wall covered in lyrics and musical annotations, previously left there by Joan Jett and Bernard Sumner. This became the basis for her album; however she insisted upon keeping the original title, as dedication to the tireless work of the 16th/17th Century astonomer.

Since being lent a copy of Unknown Pleasures by Matt Dillon in late 2004, the actor Frankie Muniz has become obsessed with trying to prove to everyone he meets that he knows more about Joy Division than they do. He trapped the writer and broadcaster Paul Morley in conference room in Miami for six hours earlier this year in order to get him to watch a PowerPoint presentation about how Peter Hook is superior to Flea, Bernard Edwards and Flea and Bernard Edwards put together. Morley was only able to escape after repeatedly striking Muniz between the eyes with a tea tray. Later that week Muniz would be thrown from a second-floor balcony by Racing Stripes co-star Mandy Moore after choosing to open a press conference by declaring that "The Correct Use Of Soap is for shit."

Spandau Ballet actually began as a four-piece outfit minus Tony Hadley. They were known as The Kemps and played Phil Spector-influenced '60s-style pop in small clubs in Utrecht. They only decided to change musical direction after seeing the glam-rock Japan on German TV in 1979 and listening to a copy of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Gary Kemp picked up from an outdoor music stall. They were inspired to move back to London, where they met Hadley at a Curtis Mayfield concert and subsequently formed the "classic" Spandau Ballet lineup.

Joy Division took their name from 1920's surreallist/dadaist Joi de Vision.

783. The southern hip-hop slang term "mayne" originates from the great sadness that many southern rap artists felt when Manchester City left Maine Roade for the City of Manchester stadium. At a recent memorabilia auction, Bun B paid over $60,000 for a turnstile from the old Maine Roade entrance.

jesus.. it's not as funny as it was the first time I read through these things..actually it's not that funny at all. but i've bothered to copy and paste them so there you go.

Call it jd/no trainspotting

ChrissMari Must Die! wrote:

800. Bernard Sumner can create bees at will.

Bernard spotted leaving his yacht

Since you asked.....

The explosion noise on "It's a sin" by PSb is the same one that is on "relax" by FGTH. The reason?

Andy Richards is an intensly lazy man, and couldn;t be arsed re-programming his JX8P

Anthony H Wilson actually has over 1 million copies of Blue Monday in his garage. The other copy was bought by Digi Mike.

Chuck Norris once picked up a guitar, which promptly exploded in his hands. The resulting fragments became the many stars in the pop music sky, especially that new group you hate. Which just goes to show that not even Chuck Norris can beat Crazy Frog in the charts. Oh, and Bronski Beat is primed for a reunion in 2008.

Movement was really produced by Stock,Aitken & Waterman. That Hannett geezer went down the co-op for a packet of biscuits and never came back. His name is only on the sleeve cos they couldn't wait another 18 months for Saville to change 3 words.

Madness (specifically Suggs) do a great Barney impression on stage; they actually rang him to ask him how it was done.

depeche mode's 'blasphemous rumours' was written in response to the growing number of people who believed that pope john paul II had in fact died after his assassination attempt, and was replaced by actor brian dennehy.

Brian Wilson's disappearance from the music scene in the late 1960s was not a result of heavy drug use and the growing distance between his artistic vision and the commercial demands of the Beach Boys, but due to the fact that he had become a flesh-eating zombie in late 1967 and needed to be quarentined for his own safety. He recovered in the late Seventies, however, and now only has the occaisonal small child for dinner once a month.

Lisa Marie Presley's real name is "Husky Child Whose Real Father is Carl Perkins".

Michael Jackson is still technically black, but he has never been human.

Oasis wrote original songs with no borrowing of other's songs.

Gram Parsons' death was actually a contracted "hit" by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, insanely jealous of him that they were.

[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: Gram Parsons' death was actually a contracted "hit" by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, insanely jealous of him that they were.

Um, that one's actually true. I've been saying it for years, so I should know

Anyway, R.E.M. got their name from Robert Mapplethorpe's initials. What does the "E" stand for? Only the band and Mr. Mapplethorpe's closest relatives know for sure, and they aren't saying.