Here's mine: The Foundation's hit song "Baby, Now that I've Found You" was written in the same bar in the same pub in London where Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital.
Mine would undoubtedly be something about Keith Moon, but I need time to write them all down and put them in a hat before I can decide...
probably that stephen stills did not get into the monkees because he had bad teeth. thank god for bad teeth
Oddly enough, George Harrison's "All Thing Must Pass" contains two future convicted murderers; drummer Jim Gordon and producer Phil Spector.
My boss just told me a fascinating one... You all better sit down for this one, apparently " Davy Jones' mother invented Liquid Paper"!!!!!! Amazing.
Albert Grossman was ready to sign Dave Van Ronk but only if he'd appear on the cover in a Viking helmet
Louis Armstrong smoked marijuana every day for the last 40 years of his life. He wrote President Eisenhower to ask that marijuana be decriminalized.
Jimi Hendrix lived in the building on the left, George Frideric Handel lived in the building on the right. Two hundred years apart.
Nick Lowe auditioned for Roxy Music. Nick Lowe auditioned for Genesis. Charles Manson auditioned for The Monkees. (Didn't everybody??) Sting wrote the lyrics for the Synchronicity album on the same desk Ian Fleming wrote one of the Bond novels...can't remember which. This stuff goes on forever. Yes, quite right. Mrs. Nesmith, the savior of secretaries everywhere...until word processing.
Absurd definition: unreasonable, illogical or inappropriate. Synonyms: preposterous, ludicrous, ridiculous. The LP cover artwork for Mom's Apple Pie.
I read this somewhere on this forum and it always cracks me up: Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write "The wind cries Mary" after a fight with his girlfriend about her horrible cooking. It was penned in an apartment that he rented from Ringo Starr. Ringo later had to evict Jimi after Hendrix white-washed the entire apartment while tripping on LSD. If it's true, that is the best rock n roll story ever.
The FBI spent an absurd amount if time/money to discover they couldn't understand the words to "Louie Louie."