July 24, 2004
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FACTS
Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame
Nellie Melba (1861-1931).
Elvis favourite collectibles were official badges. He col-
lected police badges in almost every city he performed in.
Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the
movie Barbarella.
The world's largest disco was held at the Buffalo Conven-
tion Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the
Guinness Book of World Records.
In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world
record by disco dancing for 408 hours.
The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul Mc-
Cartney about his sheepdog Martha.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges
of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by
Clint Eastwood.
The only guy without a beard in ZZTOP surname (last name)
is Beard.
The Carpenters signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was
originally part of a television commercial for a Califor-
nia bank.
-Bizarre News
Comments (5)
You know, I could swear that Duran Duran said that their name was a curse word or some sex act or something equally stupid when they were first popular in the '80s.
I actually knew that Duran Duran thing...
I've always wondered about Duran Duran
KTO
i knew a whole lot of that already... hmmm im sick. People tell me I should be a Dj because I have a fucking awesome speaker voice and also becasue I know so goddamn many of those weird little facts about musicians and songs that I can just throw out while music is playing... I would be a kickass DJ
loved it
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