Incorrect music "facts" you used to believe

Right role, different rock star - one Derek Smalls did at first! (Yes, really!)

 

I used to believe that 'grunge' was somehow different from classic rock, or hard rock, and that 'alternative' was an actual music genre.

 

That's what David Bowie's "Station to Station" is all about....

Seriously...

 

Cool! I didn't know that.

 

To me, grunge is different from "classic rock". The focus is on chords rather than riffs and solos.

 

I remember someone told me when I was little that Elton John and Olivia Newton-John were siblings and I believed it lol

 

I use to go along with that story also. I was a big Queen fan when I was a teenager (early 1980s). Anyhow - along comes the internet and I read about Barbara Valentin.

 

It was and it was, though it might be hard to tell now.

 

Not a very original title though. Maybe it started out as a variation of the more famous tune.

 

That Paul McCartney's song Jet was about a dog!

 

That there was a treasure trove of unreleased Beatles songs in the vaults .

 

They're not?

 

Me too. I'm now getting into Metallica, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden

 

Cass Elliot choking on a sandwich.

 

Soul Food To Go (Sina) by The Manhattan Transfer was African music. But turns out that it's really Brazilian.

 

That Let It Be was the Beatles' last album.

 

It was the last released Beatles album.

 

I thought I read right here on this forum that it is about a dog. So, what is it about?

 

A croque monsieur?

 

Ha!

I used to be "pretty sure" John Cleese voiced the Schoolmaster on Pink Floyd's The Wall LP, yelling "how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat??".

And it was compounded during the song "The Trial"-- after the line "Call the schoolmaster", the voice that responds sounds identical to Basil Fawlty: "I always said he'd come to no good in the end, your honor."

At 1:10 below:

 

My understanding is that "Jet" and "Martha My Dear" were both inspired by and named after McCartney family dogs. I guess that doesn't necessarily mean the songs are actually about them.

 

Jet is actually the name of a Pony on Paul's farm in Scotland!



exactly 36:00 minutes in!

 

As a small kid when listening to the radio I thought all the music you'd hear was played live by the artists in the broadcasting studio there and then.

 

Meet The Beatles was their first album.
Piece of My Heart went:
"And each time I tell myself that I, well I think I've had enough
But I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman Can't be Taught.

Maybe we should start a new thread: I Like my lyrics better

 

I will play that....this is how I heard The Airplane's "Saturday Afternoon/Won't You Try".....
"Saturday afternoon
Yellow clouds rising in the noon
Acid incense and balloons
Saturday afternoon
People dancing everywhere
OWSLEY shouting I don't care"
I reckon the Airplane missed a trick