The dog barking in the Pink Floyd song "Seamus" belonged to Steve Marriott of Small Faces/Humble Pie.
and the deceased dog Shannon in the song of the same name was not singer Henry Gross's dog Shannon, but another dog of the same name that had belonged to Carl Wilson.
...and speaking of Steve Marriott: Davy Jones, Steve Marriott and Phil Collins are musicians who have all played the role of The Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist.
The 223rd ranked hit of 1971 (via the Billboard Hot 100 charts) was Chicago by Graham Nash (peaking at #35 for 2 weeks and charting for 11). The 224th ranked hit of the year was Lowdown by Chicago (also peaked at #35 for 2 weeks and charted for 8).
I found it odd that Nash capitalized on "Chicago" 3 years after 1968.. Neil wrote "Ohio" immediately after Kent State, though.
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but Mariah Carey's version of "Without You" was released a week after Harry Nilsson died of a heart attack.
I don't know the song, but the Chicago 7 trial verdicts were handed down in about 1970 or 71, and weren't overturned until 1972. So Graham may have been somewhat on time.
Karen Carpenter bumped into John Lennon one night around 1974 and Lennon came to her and told her, "I have to tell you, love, you have a wonderful voice" and then headed inside to eat dinner.
My fave absurd little music factoid: Yngwie Malmsteem's first manager Nigel Thomas was the keyboard player in Jethro Tull for one week back in 1968.
The boy who punched David Bowie in the eye causing permanent discolouration was his great friend George Underwood, who later designed the covers for the Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust albums.
There is a Bally's Kiss Pinball Machine (quite valuable today) visible in the film Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981).
Picked up a copy of Ry Cooder's Bop Til You Drop yesterday and read this... "The album was the first digitally recorded major-label album in popular music. Bop Till You Drop was recorded on a digital 32-track machine built by 3M."
