James Williamson, formerly of The Stooges, lead the project which codified the Blu-Ray Disc standard, while working as a Vice President of Technical Standards at Sony. I have many blu-rays at home, but no Liquid Paper.
Pete Cosey performing on a lot of mid 60s Chess related material like the Billy Stewart stuff way before he became famous as a Miles Davis sideman The member of Iron Butterfly who wound up working for NASA as a top scientist. Boy George managed to get the lead singer of the Playn Jayn fired from his job on Carnaby street THe photo of the darts player Jocky Wilson appeared on TOTP asa conscious joke during the Dexys performance rather than a cock up. Was there something about the guy handing the jar of peanut butter to Iggy Pop during Cincinatti Pop being a pre-fame Stiv Bators? & Tesco Vee being the guy holding the banner on the back cover of Kiss Alive!
Someone tried kill Tom Petty and his family by burning down his house. The person hasn't been caught.
There was a flexi disc on the back of a cereal box called Feather Balloon by the Sugar Bears. Turns out it was sung (and probably written) by Kim Carnes.
Tony Burrows sang the lead vocals on three hit singles in three months under three different group names: Edison Lighthouse "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (February 1970) White Plains "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (March 1970) The Pipkins "Gimme Dat Ding" (April 1970)
Barry White sings on a bunch of Banana Splits toons, and I think Al Kooper might have also been involved. (This is what musicians sometimes have to do to earn a living.)
OK, here's a good one... Sun Ra and his Arkestra joined forces with the Blues Project in 1966 to record a Batman cash-in LP (and it's a pretty good record too):
Liz Phair's father was a well-known AIDS researcher. I don't know if he's still active, but I used to occasionally edit his papers for a scientific journal, so for a time she was "John Phair's daughter" to me.
Einstein's famous remark "God does not play dice" was originally made to Olivia Newton-John's grandfather.
Bill bruford's song Five percent for nothing on fragile refers to royalty writing credit to some management type who was in no way involved with it When Bill left Yes right after CTTE the band may him give half of his performance royalties to Alan White Years later Bill has retired comortably and the Yes members are on the casino tours to make ends meet
The Who tour that Entswistle died at the beginning og was being done to pay for John's huge debt Daltrey and Townshend carried on with the tour rather that take big venue loses Pete explained that John kept living like he was a rock star well past his main playing days The ever expanding bass and guitar collection, drugs, flashy stuff, etc
And apparently the "g" in "voodoo rage" was clipped off because that was the length that the sampler could record. Low memory on that sampler!
Lee Marvin kept The Beatles' single 'Let It Be' out of the #1 spot on the UK charts with his song, 'Wand'rin' Star,' from the movie 'Paint Your Wagon.' Bobby Troup, aka Dr. Joe Early on the Jack Webb TV series 'Emergency!' wrote the song '(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.' Harry Nilsson produced some songs by Sylvester Stallone's brother Frank. (I believe he was working on one of these when he first got word of John Lennon's murder.)
