The Alternative Rock Factfile. It's Back for a Christmas Edition!

[pfretrock]

Phil Spector never hired a session bassist who used a Spector bass. He reckoned there was only room in the studio for one Spector.

[yorks5stringer]

Welsh Girl Band, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch" enjoyed no success as DJ's were 10 seconds into their songs before finishing pronouncing their name. Following a foreshortening of it, their first hit came with "We Got The Beat"

[Phil Adams]

Witchita Lineman singing star, Glen Campbell was named thus after his mum conceived during a holiday to the Scottish Highlands.

[Phil Adams]

Ironically, Alvin Stardust was knocked down whilst attempting to cross the road.

[Phil Adams]

Despite giving up the Womble suit some years ago, Mike Batt still lives in a cave on Wimbledon Common and can be seen daily collecting discarded litter. He has developed a lucrative recycling business and it's reckoned that his earning from bottles and tins outstrip his earnings from record sales by some 30.000 to 1.

[Phil Adams]

After suffering a broken nose while in the ring, former heavyweight all in wrestler, Jimmy Somerville threw in the towel and tried his hand, and lungs, at singing.

[paul_5]

Slayer's tattooed guitar-botherer Kerry King has no royal connections.

[Phil Adams]

Slayer were originally got together to be The Leo Sayer Band. Unfortunately for Leo, the members were all thrash metal fans and soon tired of playing mindless drivel pop songs and met with their management to discuss breaking away. Small print in their contracts prevented them from any proper, self respecting metal band name, so they stuck with Sayer, only adding the "L" when their garden leave period expired.

[Phil Adams]

Elton John always denies that his hair is dyed, and claims it was that colour when he bought it.

[yorks5stringer]

7 of the Top 40 Hits this week are all sung/co sung by the artist "Feat". "Feat" when she was young was known as "Little Feat" and enjoyed a successful career with Lowell George et al. However she wanted to do her own thing and now works in a variety of different genres, usually as one of three singers. Despite closely guarding her identity, "Feat" has enjoyed more single success this year than any other artist bar none including Lady Gaga. "Feat" regards the music business as transient however and is rumoured to be considering a career in Podiatry.

[Phil Adams]

So was it Little Feat Feat Feat???

[Phil Adams]

Country music star Dolly Parton has accepted an invitation to join the Cleethorpes branch of the Rotary Club.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-30409800

Edited December 10, 2014 by Phil Adams

[yorks5stringer]

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1418226822' post='2628171']
So was it Little Feat Feat Feat???
[/quote]
No, that would be just plain silly.

[sprocketflup]

Oasis unibrow Noel Gallagher bought his first guitar from foul mouthed comedian Bernard Manning ( who incidentally had a lucrative sideline in turkey products)

"Whats that knob at the front for?" Noel asked

"That's Liam" said Bernard "Hes a ******* ****"

[yorks5stringer]

Follically challenged Jazz Songstress Dee Dee Bridgewater tends to stick to one key for her entire music repetoire.

Edited December 10, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[yorks5stringer]

Herbie Hancock still drives his old white VW Beetle with the 53 stripe on it despite having enjoyed multiplatinum success.

Edited December 10, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[yorks5stringer]

60's keyboardist Brian Auger worked as an engineer before taking up a successful music career.

[yorks5stringer]

Top Bassist Stu Hamm was a Shakespearean Actor specialising in playing aged characters before turning to music "in between" engagements.

[leschirons]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1418202569' post='2627832']
Crosby Stills Nash and Young all had concerns in 1970 about their newest album sounding too like their previous one. It was eventually released to critical acclaim however.
[/quote]

Ah yes, "Deja entendu"

[leschirons]

It is not just urban myth that when 60's flowery shirted popsters "Honeybus" sang " I can't let Maggie go" they actually did end up doing just that, try as they might to hold the mooring ropes at a charity ballooning day near Ipswich.

[leschirons]

Gothic metal 7 string widdlers Macbeth, never really found success. Despite excessive air-play, radio presenters only referred to them as "The Scottish band" which was confusing as they were Italian.

Edited December 11, 2014 by leschirons

[yorks5stringer]

Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Automatic by "The Pointer Sisters was the first song ever written by computer.
Abort.

[yorks5stringer]

Billy and Bobby Alessi, otherwise known as The Alessi Brothers have met with Rugger-Bugger and London Lord Mayor Boris Johnson today. Keen to improve Cycle Safety around large HGV's , he has used their 1977 hit "Oh, Lori" as the soundtrack to a new Advert to be shown on ITV London

[yorks5stringer]

Sister Sledge used to only Tour in the Summer so they could indulge in their passion during the Winter. However they then became fans of One Day Cricket so now just fit a few dates in in the late Spring and early Autumn. Patriarch Percy has now retired.

Edited December 12, 2014 by yorks5stringer

[Japhet]

Old Etonians Chas and Dave went under-cover and worked in a pie and mash shop in Hackney to cultivate the Norf London accents. Chas (aka Crispin Hemsley-Trustfund) recently described the experience as 'ghastly' but added 'One does what one has to in times of economic uncertainty and fiscal strife'.