Queen (The Band)

10 Interesting facts about Queen (The Band)

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	The band became popular with audiences via their hit songs, live performances, originality and showmanship.
2	Their 1985 Live Aid performance was voted the best live rock performance of all time in an industry poll
3	Queen enjoyed success in the UK in the early to mid-1970s with the albums Queen and Queen II, but it was with the release of Sheer Heart Attack in 1974 and A Night at the Opera the following year that the band gained international success.
4	Since Mercury's death and Deacon's retirement, May and Taylor have performed infrequently together at special events and programmes as members of other ensembles.
5	In 1968, guitarist Brian May,a student at London's Imperial College and bassist Tim Staffell decided to form a band. May placed an advertisement on the college notice board for a "Mitch Mitchell/Ginger Baker type" drummer; Roger Taylor, a young dental student, auditioned and got the job. The group called themselves Smile.
6	Tim Staffell was attending Ealing Art College with Farrokh Bulsara, later known as Freddie Mercury, and introduced him to the band.
7	In 1981, Queen became the first major rock band to play in Latin American stadiums. Queen played to a total audience of 479,000 people on their South American tour, including five shows in Argentina and two in Brazil.
8	On 12 January 1985, the band headlined two nights of the first Rock in Rio festival at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). They were the main act on the 11 and 18 January lineups. On each night, they played in front of over 180,000 people.
9	Bohemian Rhapsody" was re-released as a single shortly after Mercury's death, with "These Are the Days of Our Lives" as the double A-side.
10	The Queen logo, also known as the Queen Crest, was designed by Mercury shortly before the release of their first album. The logo features the zodiac signs of all four members: two lions for Leo (Deacon and Taylor), a crab for Cancer (May), and two fairies for Virgo (Mercury).

Pink Floyd

10 Interesting facts about Pink Floyd

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art, and elaborate live shows.
2	One of rock music's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful acts, the group has sold over 200 million albums worldwide including 74.5 million certified units in the United States.
3	Pink Floyd were formed in 1965, soon after Syd Barrett joined The Tea Set, a group consisting of architecture students Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Bob Klose.
4	His erratic behaviour of Barrett prompted his colleagues to add guitarist and singer David Gilmour to their lineup.
5	Waters used legal means to try to keep them from using the name, declaring Pink Floyd a spent force, but the parties reached an out-of-court settlement allowing Gilmour, Mason and Wright to continue as Pink Floyd.
6	Waters continued as a solo musician, releasing three studio albums. Although for some years relations between Waters and the remaining three members were sour, the band reformed for a one-off performance at Live 8.
7	Nick Mason (b. 27 January 1944)and Roger Waters (b. 6 September 1943)met at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London, where both were studying architecture.
8	Mason played drums in a band called The Hotrods in his teenage years, and Waters played guitar. Both were avid fans of Radio Luxembourg and their shared tastes led to a friendship based on a mutual appreciation of music.
9	The pair first played together in a band formed by Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe, along with Noble's sister Sheilagh, an occasional singer in the band. They were joined later by fellow student Richard Wright (28 July 1943).
10	To the band's consternation, they cancelled a performance at the Windsor Jazz Festival, informing the music press that Barrett was suffering from 'nervous exhaustion'.

Pat Boone

10 Interesting facts about Pat Boone

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He sold over 45 millions of albums.
2	He is also a actor and played many roles.
3	He is successful by hosting a network television show, The Pat Boone Chevy Show from 1957-1959.
4	He was second biggest charting artist of 1950s behind elvis presley.
5	He attended and graduated from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville in 1952.
6	He is also a cousin of two stars of western television series: the late Richard Boone of CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel and Randy Boone, one of the co-stars of NBC's The Virginian and CBS's Cimarron Strip.
7	He hosted a TV series in the late 1950s and began writing a series of self-help books for adolescents, including Twixt Twelve and Twenty, in the early 1960s.
8	In 1953 Boone married Shirley Lee Foley, daughter of country music great Red Foley and singer Judy Martin. They had four daughters: Cheryl Lynn Boone, Linda Lee Boone, Deborah Ann aka "Debby" Boone, and Laura Gene Boone.
9	He was interviewed for writing an article for world net daily in which he argued that Democrats and others who were against the President during the Iraq War could be questioned for their patriotism.
10	Boone was a basketball fan and had ownership interests in two teams. He owned a team in the Hollywood Studio League called the "Cooga Moogas." The Cooga Moogas included Bill Cosby, Rafer Johnson, Gardner McKay, Don Murray, and Denny "Tarzan" Miller.

Phil Collins

10 Interesting facts about Phil Collins

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is an Academy Award-winning English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
2	Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis.
3	According to britishhitsongwriters.com he is the forty-eighth most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history based on weeks that his compositions have spent on the chart.
4	Collins' professional career began as a drummer, first with obscure rock group Flaming Youth and then more famously with Genesis.
5	He has won seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and two Golden Globes for his solo work.
6	He began a career as a child actor and model, and won his first major role as The Artful Dodger in the London production of Oliver!
7	He was an extra in The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night - one of hundreds of screaming teenagers during the TV concert sequence and seen fleetingly in a close-up. He was also in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as one of the children who stormed the castle at the end of the movie but was edited out.
8	While attending Chiswick Community School he formed a band called The Real Thing and later joined The Freehold. With the latter group, he wrote his first song titled "Lying Crying Dying".
9	Four of his seven American number one songs came from film soundtracks, and his work on Disney's Tarzan earned him an Oscar.
10	Collins made an appearance as himself in the 2006 PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, set in 1984.

Michael Jackson

10 Interesting facts about Michael Jackson

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is a American musician also known as the king of pop.
2	With stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk.
3	His other achievements feature multiple Guinness World Records—including the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"—13 Grammy Awards, 17 number one singles (including the four as a member of the Jackson 5), and estimated sales between 350 million and 750 million records worldwide.
4	His changing appearance was noticed from the late 1970s onwards, with changes to his nose and to the color of his skin drawing media publicity.
5	He was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993 though no charges were brought, and in 2005 he was tried and acquitted of further allegations.
6	He married twice, first in 1994 and again in 1996, and brought up three children, one born to a surrogate mother.
7	While preparing for the This Is It concert tour in 2009, Jackson died at the age of 50 after suffering from cardiac arrest.
8	His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and his father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, a steel mill worker who performed with an R&B band called The Falcons.
9	He stated that he was physically and emotionally abused by his father during incessant rehearsals, whippings, and name-calling, though he credited his father's discipline for his success.
10	In 1964, he and Marlon joined the Jackson Brothers — a band formed by brothers Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine — as backup musicians playing congas and tambourine.

Lionel Richie

10 Interesting facts about Lionel Richie

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute.
2	His family moved to Illinois where he graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus, in Joliet.
3	A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship back at Tuskegee Institute and later graduated with a major in economics.
4	In 1968 he became the lead singer and saxophonist with the Commodores.
5	They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records, being schooled as a support act to the Jackson Five.
6	He composed "Lady" for Kenny Rogers, which hit #1 in 1980, and he produced Rogers' Share Your Love album the following year.
7	His 1983 follow up album, Can't Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies and won two Grammy Awards including Album Of The Year – propelling him into the first rank of international superstars.
8	Richie married college sweetheart Brenda Harvey on October 18, 1975. During their marriage, Lionel began a relationship with Diane Alexander in 1986.
9	A confrontation ensued, and Brenda was then arrested for spousal abuse, trespassing and vandalism. Lionel and Brenda divorced on August 9, 1993; they had been married 17 years.
10	In a November 15, 2005 CNN interview with Ryan Seacrest, Richie—whose birth name is Nicole Camille Escovedo—stated that her birth father was not a member of Lionel's band; however, Peter Michael Escovedo (brother of Sheila E) was a member of Lionel's band.

Julio Iglesias

10 Interesting facts about Julio Iglesias

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million copies in 14 languages and released 77 albums.
2	According to Sony Music he is one of the top 10 best selling music artists ever.
3	Julio Iglesias is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat which was of Jewish origin.
4	Julio's siblings were born of Dr. Iglesias's second marriage to Ronna Keitt.
5	In the early sixties, when he was a law student in Madrid, he briefly was goalkeeper for one of Real Madrid's youth soccer teams; however, a 22 September 1963 car crash truncated his footballer's career.
6	In 1968, he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, a songwriter's contest in Spain, with the song La Vida Sigue Igual and signed a contract with Discos Columbia, the Spain branch of the Columbia Records company.
7	In 1985, Julio Iglesias, Sr, was kidnapped, but found alive two weeks later, prompting Julio (divorced from Isabel Preysler) to move his family to Miami, Florida.
8	Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo ("A Man Alone").
9	In October, 2003 he went to Argentina and kissed show host Susana Giménez three times during a live telecast of her show.
10	He gave music in most popular movie “saw”.

Elvis Presley

10 Interesting facts about Elvis Presley

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is a singer and an actor. 'Of course :)'
2	He is also called king of rock n roll.
3	In 1968, after making movies in Hollywood and having been away from the stage for seven years, he returned to live performances in a television special.
4	In 1973, Presley staged the first global live concert via satellite (Aloha from Hawaii), reaching at least one billion viewers live and an additional 500 million on delay.
5	Among his many awards and accolades are 14 Grammy nominations (3 wins) from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received at age 36.
6	On October 3, 1945, he made his first public performance in a singing contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show at the suggestion of his teacher, Mrs. J.C. Grimes.
7	His third job was driving a truck for the Crown Electric Company. He began wearing his hair longer with a ducktail; the style of truck drivers at that time.
8	Presley was an untrained musician who played by ear as he didn't read music. Later, as a young singer, his recording sessions were "still heavily influenced by the songs he had heard on the jukebox and radio.
9	On January 10, 1956, Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville, Tennessee.
10	On April 1, Presley launched his acting career with a screen test for Paramount Pictures, and signed a seven year contract with them on April 25. His first motion picture, Love Me Tender, was released on November 21.

10 Interesting facts about Elton John

10 Interesting facts about Elton John

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	He is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
2	In his four-decade career, John has sold more than 200 million records making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
3	He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 U.S. albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits.
4	He has won five Grammy awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.
5	In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him #49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time
6	He has been heavily involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s, and was knighted in 1998.
7	He entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005 and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements.
8	In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the top 100 most-frequently-charting artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. John was listed at #3, behind only Madonna and The Beatles.
9	He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School until the age of 17, when he left just prior to his GCE A Level examinations to pursue a career in the music industry.
10	When John began to seriously consider a career in music, his father, who served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional career, such as banking.

10 Interesting facts about Rolling Stones

10 Interesting facts about The Rolling Stones

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	Early in the band's history Jagger and Richards formed a songwriting partnership and gradually took over leadership of the band from the increasingly troubled and erratic Jones.
2	Mick Taylor replaced an incapacitated Jones shortly before Jones's death in 1969.
3	Taylor quit in 1974, and was replaced in 1975 by Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood, who has remained with the band ever since.
4	Wyman left the Rolling Stones in 1992; bassist Darryl Jones, who is not an official band member, has worked with the group since 1994.
5	The Rolling Stones have released 22 studio albums in the UK (24 in the US), eight concert albums (nine in the US) and numerous compilations; and have album sales estimated at more than 200 million worldwide.
6	In the early 1950s Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent They met again in 1960 while Richards was attending Sidcup Art College.
7	With mutual friend Dick Taylor (later of Pretty Things), they formed the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys.
8	Jones named the band The Rollin' Stones to pay tribute to "Rollin' Stone" by Muddy Waters
9	The LP also included a Jagger/Richards original - "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" - and two numbers credited to Nanker Phelge, the name used for songs composed by the entire group.
10	The Rolling Stones were scheduled to play at a free concert in London's Hyde Park two days after Brian Jones's death; they decided to proceed with the show as a tribute to Jones.

10 Interesting facts about Bob seger

10 Interesting facts about Bob seger

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s
2	In 1976, he achieved national fame with two albums, the studio record Night Moves and the live record Live Bullet.
3	His backing band from 1975 was known as "The Silver Bullet Band," an evolving group of Detroit-area musicians
4	A roots rocker with a classic raspy, shouting voice, Seger was first inspired by Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
5	Seger's songs have been covered by many artists including Thin Lizzy and Metallica.
6	Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
7	When Seger was 10 years old, his father left the family and moved to California.
8	Seger attended Tappan Junior High School (now Tappan Middle School) and Ann Arbor High School (now Pioneer High School) in Ann Arbor and graduated in 1963. He ran track and field in high school. Seger went to Lincoln Park High School for a year.
9	Seger also named Van Morrison as being one of his influences and covered one of his lesser known songs "I've Been Working" on his albums Back in '72 and Live Bullet.
10	Bob Seger arrived on the Detroit music scene in 1961 fronting a three-piece band called the Decibels. The Decibels recorded an acetate demo of Seger's first original song, called "The Lonely One," at Del Shannon's studio.

10 Interesting facts about Billy joel

10 Interesting facts about Billy joel

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
2	He is also a five-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 100 million records worldwide.
3	Joel "retired" from recording pop music in 1993 but continued to tour (sometimes with Elton John).
4	In 2007, he briefly returned to pop songwriting and recording with a single entitled "All My Life"—written for his third wife Katie Lee Joel.
5	Joel's father was an accomplished classical pianist.
6	His interest in music, rather than sports, was a source of teasing and bullying in his early years.
7	As a teenager, Joel took up boxing so that he would be able to defend himself. He boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning twenty-two bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after having his nose broken in his twenty-fourth boxing match
8	Joel attended Hicksville High School, and was expected to graduate in 1967.but he overslept on the day of an important exam, owing to his late-night musician's lifestyle.
9	Upon seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Joel decided to pursue a full-time musical career, and set about finding a local Long Island band to join.
10	Joel completed voice work on Disney's Oliver & Company, released in 1988, a loose adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Joel brought both his acting and musical talents to the film as Dodger.

10 Interesting facts about Bee gee

10 Interesting facts about Bee gee

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.
2	The three brothers co-wrote most of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
3	It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' record sales total more than 200 million making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
4	They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; fittingly, the presenter of the award to "Britain's first family of harmony" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of the Beach Boys, America's first family of rock harmony.
5	Their Hall of Fame citation says "Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees".
6	Following Maurice's sudden death on 12 January 2003, Barry and Robin Gibb temporarily ended the group after forty-five years of activity.
7	In 1958, the Gibb family, including infant brother Andy (born 5 March 1958 in Manchester, England), emigrated to Redcliffe in Queensland, Australia.
8	By 1960, the Bee Gees were featured on television shows, and in the next few years began working regularly at resorts on the Queensland coast.
9	Stigwood proclaimed that the Bee Gees were "The Most Significant New Talent Of 1967" and thus began the immediate comparison to The Beatles.
10	In February 2006 Barry and Robin reunited on stage for a Miami charity concert to benefit the Diabetes Research Institute. It was their first public performance together since the death of brother Maurice. Barry and Robin also played at the 30th annual Prince's Trust Concert in the UK on 20 May 2006.

10 Interesting facts about Beatles

10 Interesting facts about Beatles

#	Top 10 Interesting Facts
1	The Beatles were an English rock and pop group formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
2	In 1966 the group found themselves mired in controversy, including widespread antipathy in the US after a magazine published a quote from Lennon's remarks on Christianity.
3	In 1967, Epstein died from an overdose of a prescription drug
4	The group began a three-month retreat in India, treating Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as their guru for a short time, but became disillusioned with him.
5	September 2009 saw the release of a newly remastered discography as well as the video game The Beatles: Rock Band.
6	In the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart they notched up 29 top ten hits, including 20 number ones
7	Aged sixteen, John Lennon formed the skiffle group The Quarrymen with some Liverpool schoolfriends in March 1957.
8	After the first session at Abbey Road Studios, Martin complained to Epstein about Best's drumming and suggested the band use a session drummer in the studio.
9	Beatles releases in the United States were initially delayed for nearly a year when Capitol Records, though owned by EMI, declined to issue either "Please Please Me" or "From Me to You".
10	In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ranked Sgt. Pepper at number one.

10 Interesting Facts About AC/DC

10 Interesting Facts About AC/DC

#	10 Interesting Facts
1	AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.
2	Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock and are considered pioneers of heavy metal, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"
3	Membership remained stable until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977.
4	Lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980, after a night of heavy alcohol consumption.
5	The group briefly considered disbanding, but soon ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was selected to replace Scott. Later that year, the band released their best-selling album, Back in Black.
6	AC/DC declined in popularity soon after drummer Phil Rudd was fired in 1983 and was replaced by future Dio drummer Simon Wright.
7	AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock"and was named the seventh "Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time" by MTV.
8	Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the band's name after seeing the initialism "AC/DC" on a vacuum cleaner"AC/DC" is an abbreviation for "alternating current/direct current".
9	AC/DC" is pronounced one letter at a time, though the band is popularly known as "Acca Dacca" in Australia.
10	Amid rumours of alcoholism and drug-induced paranoia, drummer Phil Rudd's friendship with Malcolm Young deteriorated and, after a long period of unfriendliness, the men's dislike for each other grew so strong that they fought.