Did You Know....

[tiggerblue10]

Haven't seen any 'did you knows' for a while so here is one.

Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders worked for Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren in their shop in the 70s and also very nearly married both Sid Vicious and John Lydon.

[Peter Pedant]

sozza - baaaarp - wrong thread
it is not about muzak

Chrissie Hynde had a few lucky escapes; If Georges Sand ( she wasnt a guy, fellas, calm down) had married Frederic Chopin - - she might have got TB (and died)

[JimF]

Columbus never set foot in present-day America.
Brian Cox didn't play on "Things Can Only Get Better"
The plane that Buddy Holly died in wasn't called "American Pie"

[drmorgans]

The Sex Pistols "No-one is innocent" was co-written by Ronnie Biggs. It was a "hit" after Rotten and Vicious had left.

[JimF]

Ronnie wrote the lyrics, certainly, but the music was by Steve Jones.

[JimF]

Skeeter Davis didn't write "The End of the World" in memory of her late father. In fact, she didn't write the song at all!

[Hopkirk]

Aled Jones didn't sing the song "Walking in the Air" in the film "The Snowman".

It was Peter Auty.

[bobbinwales]

Rod Stewart did'nt play harmonica on the Millie single "my boy lollypop"

[jno]

the POW camp films The Wooden Horse and The Great Escape were both set in the same prison camp and depicted (real) escapes that were going on at the same time. The Wooden Horse people got away several months before the Great Escape tunnels were finished, though.

[Hopkirk]

Luther Vandross was a backing singer on David Bowie's 'Young Americans'

[jno]

Gillian Hills, who was one of the naked teenyboppers in Blowup (the other one was Jane Birkin), later designed the cover for the book The Color Purple.

[jno]

sorry, only just realised this was in Music.

Rudy Vallee recorded "There is a Tavern in the Town" back in 1934. But he thought the words were so terrible he started laughing towards the end, and had to rerecord it all. However the record company released them both.

Laughing version

[jno]

oh that's right, you can only do one link per post. This is the straight version

[jno]

not only that my first post put the first caption with the second song. This is the real laughing version

[drmorgans]

Before he found fame David Bowie had a sideline in translating foreign songs. He was asked to do a translation of Comme D'Habitude but instead the producers went with Paul Anka's version, My Way

[barry1010]

I'm not surprised, I always thought she had a unique style

[Atheist]

I remember seeing David sing Port of Amsterdam (in English, translated from a Jacques Brel song) in Beckenham Arts Lab. He could really sing!

[barry1010]

I didn't know that people did believe the plane was called 'American Pie' - it was called Bonanza, and now I can't get that blasted theme tune out of my head.

I thought 'American Pie' referred to American popular culture - 'as American as apple pie'

[Old_Geezer]

Wow... that would've been bigamy !