Showing posts with label funny facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funny facts. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Musical Madness


Ever wondered what the weirdest and stupidest things to be done in the name of music have been? Well in this article I will attempt to seek out the oddest and most crazy musical facts so that you can crush your friends with useless musical trivia.

  • 8 names John Lennon used to check into a hotel:
    Dr. Winston O’Boogie
    Long John
    Dwarf McDougall
    Musketeer Gripweed
    Rev Fred Ghurkin
    Dr. Dream
    Kaptain Kundalini
    Johnny Rhythm Honorary John St John Johnson.

  • The smallest guitar in the world is smaller than a red blood cell and has strings that can be strummed. It was made using nanotechnology.

  • Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. Well any music with a big pounding beat and fast tempo.

  • Elvis once said, I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to.

  • A Mexican musician, Ramon Barrero, famous for playing the world's smallest harmonica, inhaled the harmonica and choked to death.

  • Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

  • Pop was once banned in India. The song "Tirchi Topiwale" became so popular that the police were instructed to fine 50 rupees to anyone caught singing it.

  • The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.

  • Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than its army.

  • Elvis Presley once entered an Elvis look-a-like contest in a US burger bar and only came 3rd!!

  • The lead female singer in an opera is called the prima donna.
Well there you go, fascinating facts that will probably never actually come up in a conversation.

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