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Music Fast Facts – Week 5

  1. The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
  2. Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by Clint Eastwood.
  3. The only guy without a beard in ZZ Top last name (surname) is Beard.
  4. Since its launch in 1981 the song “Memory” of the musical Cats has been played on radio more than a million times.
  5. Paul McCartney was the last bachelor Beatle when he married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London, 1969. Paul’s brother Mike was his best man. No other Beatle attended the wedding.
  6. There are 6 versions of Franz Schubert’s “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”), simply because when friends asked him for copies of the song, he wrote out new copies to the best he could remember at the time.
  7. In 1952, John Cage composed and presented 4’33”, a composition consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
  8. The Carpenters signature song, “We’ve Only Just Begun,” was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank.
  9. In 1972, Leslie Harvey of Stone the Crows died after being electrocuted onstage in England. In 1976 Keith Relf, who used to play for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted by his guitar while playing in his basement.
  10. During a mid-performance in 1994 Ramon Barrero, a Mexican musician famous for playing the world’s smallest harmonica, inhaled the harmonica and choked to death.
  11. The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the United States, with 178 million sold. They also hold the top spot for singles sales – 1.6 billion.
  12. Following The Beatles on the chart for highest-certified music artists in the United States are Garth Brooks (148 million albums), Elvis (136 million) and Led Zeppelin (112 million).