Do we know if they ever played anything off of rubber soul when they toured; don’t remember any singles being released from the album.
After Love's first album the group moved into the"Castle" which had been formerly owned by Bela Lugosi.
After Eddie Cochran's fatal automobile accident the taxi and the belongings were impounded at the local police station. Dave Dee who would later become a member of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich a police cadet played Eddie's Gretsch guitar.
It's interesting that If I Needed Someone was the only Harrison original The Beatles ever played live.
Smokey Robinson's nickname for Marvin Gaye was "Dad" because he walked and danced like an old man in his eyes.
Even then, he seemed bashful about singing his own lyrics. At least, it seems that way in some footage I've seen (Japan comes to mind).
There is an article on Wikipedia about the man who sang “Turn around, bright eyes” in Total Eclipse of the Heart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Dodd
The first song ever performed in space was Yuri Gagarin whistling "The Motherland Hears" by Shostakovich. Seven years later he died in a still-unexplained jet crash.
Steve Kilbey of the Church was on his high school debate team, who only lost to future Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. Incidentally, Kilbey writes in his autobiography, published in 2014: "My mother declared that one day, he'd be the prime minister of Australia - and my mother was always right, and she's still waiting to see her prediction fulfilled [...] but you never know what fate will roll into your life, and politics is just like rock and roll, with its winning and losing streaks." I think someone read that and decided to uphold Mrs. Kilbey's track record the year after!
I'm not sure what's supposed to be absurd here. He's a singer, and he was hired for the session, and he did it. He's pretty far from the most obscure individual to have a page on Wikipedia.
I agree about someone singing backup not being absurd. A similar issue is with one of my favorites songs, "When You Walking The Room" by Paul Carrack. The song features a great female lead singer, and I later found out that her name is Jackie Rawe and checking her webpage she has appeared on a number of other songs as a singer. Jackie Rawe
Kim Carnes, later famous for "Bette Davis Eyes", sang on the Sugar Bears songs found on flexi-discs on Post cereal boxes.
He's been usurped by Plastic Bertrand (who's 65 today as well!). Plastic Bertrand Highest-Paid Singer in the World - Mediamass
The Fab Four alphabetize the in the same order, regardless of their first or last names: George John Paul Ringo Harrison Lennon McCartney Starr
The iconic photos on the front and back covers of The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East were shot not in New York, but in Macon, Ga.
Now that you mention it, that alley certainly looks a lot too clean (not to mention wide) for the East Village.