MUSIC MONDAY

 

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MORE MUSIC FACTS AND TRIVIA

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Michael Jackson:

Michael Jackson once tried to buy Marvel Comics. The King of Pop never managed to get the rights though, and Marvel’s Stan Lee admitted he didn’t see Jackson as a good businessman. Stan Lee has recalled this story several times during his lifetime, and it has been further confirmed by one of his brothers, Taj Michael, who also added that he believed that Michael wanted be, and play, Spiderman.

Disney stepped in to purchase Marvel in 2009 for $4 billion. Considering that the Marvel Comics Universe movies have grossed more than $22 billion combined at the box office, that has proved to be one of the best investments in the history of entertainment.

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Titanic:

You probably know the story of the Titanic band that played music while the ship was sinking. Many of the survivors said that Wallace Hartley and the 8-member band continued to play until the very end, a scene which appears in the scene in the movie too.

However the ‘band’ that was initially supposed to be on the ship was the London Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra booked the Titanic, but they changed boats at the last minute.

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Metallica:

In 2013, Metallica set a new Guinness World Record for becoming the first musical act to perform on all 7 continents. They set the record after playing at Carlini Station in Antarctica where they performed for 120 scientists and competition winners.

The concert, titled Freeze ‘Em All, featured ten songs played over the span of an hour. To prevent noise pollution, the show was played without any traditional amplification and was instead transmitted to the audience through headphones. The concert was later released as a live album, and a documentary centered around the production of the concert and the band's time in Antarctica was released in 2015.

Equally impressive, they held the concerts on all 7 continents within one year.

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Yuri Gagarin:

The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin wasn’t only the first man human being in space – he was also the first to sing in space.

He sang a Shostakovich song, “My Homeland Hears”, over the radio on his first space mission.

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Prince:

Prince’s debut album For You came out in 1978, when he was only 20 years old.

Nevertheless, all tracks were composed, produced, arranged, and performed by Prince. He also played the instruments on all the recordings, 27 musical instruments, including electric guitar, bass, piano, drums, syndrums (electronic drums), slapsticks, bongos, congas, finger cymbals – just to name a few.

BTW:

Slapsticks consists of two pieces of hardwood that are hit together either with a spring mechanism for single hand use or two pieces of wood on a hinge with handles for both hands. This is often called a whip sound effect.

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Janet Jackson:

Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction inspired the creation of Youtube

Jawed Karim is one of the founders of YouTube an,d in one of the interviews, he said how he got the idea for the platform - the main inspirations were two different events: Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during a Super Bowl show, and the Asian tsunami.

In 2004, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. At one point during their performance, Justin reached over and pulled off a piece of Janet's costume, exposing her right nipple. Jawed Karim noted that it was near impossible to see the clip anywhere on the internet.

Karim and his friends Steve Chen and Chad Hurley began working on code for a site where people could upload their own content. That site would end up being YouTube, which launched not long after. Once YouTube launched, it was an enormous success, thanks in part to people looking for clips of Janet and Justin’s performance. Just one year later, Google saw the potential of the site and purchased it for over $1.5 billion. In addition to that figure, the three were offered plenty of stock, which made them very wealthy.

Sadly, Jackson’s career never bounced back from the damage it suffered in 2004.

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Bruce Springsteen:

Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” actually isn’t Pro-American. Regardless of the song’s upbeat tempo and lyrics, “Born in the USA” was written as a criticism of the country’s treatment of Vietnam vets. The song was misinterpreted many times though but Springsteen made it clear that it’s a protest against the Vietnam war and the way the soldiers were treated upon their return home.

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Barry Manilow:

Barry Manilow didn’t write the song called “I Write the Songs”

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One in five country music songs refer to alcohol, one in three to tears and one in seven to “mama”.

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Leo Fender, the founder of the iconic electric guitar and bass brand and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, never learned to play either instrument.

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The longest song title ever is Hoagy Carmichael’s 1943 “I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues.”

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The word Music originates from the Greek word (mousike) which means “art of Muses”.

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Studies have it that, heartbeats changes their pace and tends to mimic the music you listen to.

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Being in a place where there is a loud music, there is a likelihood you will drink more within a short time. Don’t be surprised it’s like that in a bar or club.

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Earworm is a stuck song syndrome which makes a catchy piece of music to continually repeat itself through your mind after it has stop playing.

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Karaoke is a Japanese word coined from two other words “karppo” meaning empty and “okesutura” meaning Orchestra. Hence Karaoke means EMPTY OCHESTRA.

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Historically, from 1912-1948, music, painting, poetry, literature and even architecture used to be part of the modern Olympic Games.

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Monaco’s Military Orchestra has more soldiers than its Army. The Monaco’s Army has 82 soldiers while its Orchestra has 85 soldiers.