Mick Avory, before he was the drummer in The Kinks, was the original drummer for The Rolling Stones before Charlie Watts.
"My Way" was an Italian song whose English lyrics were written by Paul Anka. Before Anka, the publishing company assigned it to a young songwriter named David Bowie. They rejected Bowie's lyrics, but Bowie had the last laugh. He later based "Life On Mars" on that song.
Elvira the American television horror movie host was on the cover of Tom Waits album "Small Change". Casandra Peterson also dated Elvis Presley!
According to The Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions, he played with them at their first few gigs (Ealing Jazz Club and The Marquee).
Peter (and Jane) Asher's mother was young George Martin's oboe teacher around 1950. That's IF I remember correctly.
The Byrd choose Michael Clark because they saw him playing bongos and thought he looked cool. He also was not a drummer per se
No, Barnes & Barnes was Billy Mumy and Robert Haimer. The latter was America's lead guitarist for many years (hence their appearing on B&B's cover of "I Need You").
GRAHAM NASH: Yes. We had a manager called Michael Cohen, and he owned a tailor shop in Stockport in the north of England that I actually worked at at one point. And he came to us one day and he said, you know, this neighborhood, this woman keeps driving me crazy. She says she has this son who writes songs. Would you do me a favor? Go and, you know, pat him on the head and encourage him and get her off my back, basically. So we go down to this house, and there's a 14-, 15-year-old kid there, and he's got a guitar, and we were The Hollies. We'd had a couple of hits, and we were, you know, full of ourselves. And we said, OK, kid, what have you got? He picks up his guitar, and he goes: (singing) Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say... We knew immediately that we could make a great record of that. So we said, OK, wow, yeah, great, we'll take that song. And we get up to leave. And then one of us said: Have you got anything else? He said, yeah, I have this song, and it goes like this: (singing) Look through any window, yeah. So that was two that we wanted. And we said, OK, one last time, anything else? He said, I wrote this song this morning for my friend Peter Noone who's singing with this new band Herman's Hermits, and it goes: (singing) No milk today, my love has gone away. This young kid had written three fantastic pop songs. That was a very interesting moment in our lives. I love the above story, although I'm not sure how accurate it is. Given the following timeline: Sep 1964: Herman's Hermits (w/ Peter Noone) score first #1 UK hit Mar 1965: Yardbirds release "For Your Love", written by Graham Gouldman May 1965: Graham Gouldman turns 19 years old Jun 1965: Hollies record "Look Through Any Window" May 1966: Hollies record "Bus Stop" Aug 1966: Herman's Hermits record "No Milk Today"
There is a story that in 1984 while Aerosmith were recording the 'Done With Mirrors' LP, a radio in the studio was playing 'You See My Crying' from the bands 1975 'Toys in the Attic' LP. Steven Tyler was so out of it that he didn't even recognize his own song and suggested that the band do a cover version of it. Joe Perry spoke up and said 'That's us, F$#%head")
Bryan Adams and Ryan Adams, often confused with one another to their mutual chagrin, were both born on November 5.
"Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. held a unique record for reaching the number one spot in 28 countries, more than any other single release until Madonna's "Hung Up" reached number one in 41 countries in 2005.
Didn't somebody else have a hit with that song? I swear I remember another group doing that song and having a decent sized hit with it. It seemed it was before Lipps Inc.
Indeed! If you watch the documentary DVD "Produced by George Martin," there is a scene where George and Mrs. Asher are talking together, apparently at George's kitchen table. And it's a modern interview, not archival footage. One of the more charming scenes in the film.
Neil Young wrote the 3 famous songs from Everybody Knows this is Nowhere while bedridden with a 102 (103?) fever. The Van Halen tour rider about the m&ms is pretty funny (and completely absurd) Van Morrison and Bob Dylan meet in a pub. Sit and stare at each other for a long time. Bob finally gets up and leaves, Van says "it's always good to see Bob". Lol not sure if true and forget where I heard this one.
Manfred Mann did a cover of the Bob Dylan song later they were offered "Quinn the Eskimo". Albert Goldman Dylan's manager played them the song from the basement tapes in England. One of Manfred Manns asked Goldman, why the singer had such a bad voice and Goldman replied "That's Bob Dylan"!
