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

[paul_5]

David Bowie did all of the 'Minion' voices in Despicable Me. He wanted too much money to reprise the role(s) for the sequel, so they were done by Rachel Weiss instead. True fact.

[leschirons]

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1415613520' post='2601901']


Thank you for the clarification, good job he wasn't in France at the time as Fourgonnette Carrefour would never have worked!
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But surely, that would make him ruoferraC ettennogrouF ?

[FinnDave]

In a misguided attempt to appeal to the European market, The Yardbirds were originally known as as the .914 Metrebirds.

[leschirons]

Evil SMERSH actress Lotte Lenya (Rosa Klebb) changed her gender and name in 1970 after the film work dried up to become the fuzzy haired pop midget we all love and know as Leo Sayer.

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1415615252' post='2601931']
But surely, that would make him ruoferraC ettennogrouF ?
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Hoist by my own petard, which was in fact Van/naV/Fourgonnette/ettennogrouF's working title for the "Contractual Obligation" album.

[UglyDog]

The Stan Ridgway hit 'Camouflage' was written as an homage to Al Green and James Brown.

Jimmy Page has at his home a large rubber plant. He has had this plant for many years and is very attached to it, and consequently he has humorously named the plant after someone he knows well -- to his knowledge he is the only person in the world to own a John Paul plant.

[wingnutkj]

Steve Morse and Steve Vai communicate with each other soley using a code based on a system of high-pitched tones. Named after a corruption of the code's Swedish creator's name, it is called "widdling".

[wingnutkj]

June Carter Cash really did cart her cash in a cart. In June.

[leschirons]

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1415616851' post='2601940']

Hoist by my own petard, which was in fact Van/naV/Fourgonnette/ettennogrouF's working title for the "Contractual Obligation" album.
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You are of course, again correct in your assertions regarding that album. However, I must point out that it was not released under his own name but under the pseudonym "Marmite Morrison" and I'm sure you are well aquainted with how the story of that came about involving a supermarket "own brand" item and a supposedly borrowed handbag makeup mirror.

In my opinion, This may have been responsible for the much used "you either love him or hate him" view.

Edited November 10, 2014 by leschirons

[Earbrass]

King Crimson and Deep Purple merged to form Maroon 5.

[ras52]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1415201222' post='2597817']
After Heaven 17 broke up they went on to reform as East 17
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Not sure about this one... didn't they just grow up and become Heaven 7 Adult?

[ras52]

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1415618544' post='2601958']
You are of course, again correct in your assertions regarding that album. However, I must point out that it was not released under his own name but under the pseudonym "Marmite Morrison" and I'm sure you are well aquainted with how the story of that came about involving a supermarket "own brand" item and a supposedly borrowed handbag makeup mirror.

In my opinion, This may have been responsible for the much used "you either love him or hate him" view.
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Actually, Van Morrison is Dutch and was persuaded by his manager to Anglicise (Irishise?) his birth name Willebord van Mohressohn .

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1415619200' post='2601967']
King Crimson and Deep Purple merged to form Maroon 5.
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Not all of Deep Purple mind, a couple of them split and became Simply Red and Blue.

Bilbo was the original bass player on Moondance.

[Earbrass]

On a related note, Rainbow split up because of intractable artistic differences between Ritchie Blackmore and Bungle.

[ras52]

When Bob Marley signed to Island, Chris Blackwell put him in the studio with a band of Japanese boatmen. This didn't work out and the band personnel were replaced, with only the band's original name being retained.

[Norris]

Genesis were originally formed by the female sibling of the developer of the smallpox vaccine

[bassace]

Bowie's sparky was electrocuted. He had a song written about him - The Man Who Failed to Earth.

[ras52]

Since David Bowie and Neil Diamond are getting mentions, let's remember the spat between them.

After Neil's libel lawyers failed to halt the release of Bowie's [i]Diamond Dogs[/i], he waited three decades for revenge, naming his 2005 album [i]Bowie Smells of Wee[/i]. However, he underestimated the strength of The Thin White Duke's legal team, and a last-minute injunction led to the album being hastily re-titled as [i]12 Songs[/i].

[UglyDog]

Lyricist Howard Greenfield was going through a period of writers' block at one time, and in a search for inspiration spent some time with a friend who was an eminent zoo-vet. Howard's lightbulb moment occurred one day when his friend picked up a particularly podgy [i]Priodontes maximus[/i]. "Wow" said the vet, "is this a weighty armadillo..!"

[sprocketflup]

Lene Lovichs lucky number is actually 2

[HengistPod]

Little do people know, but UFO's bass player has been a devout Christian for many years.

So much so that he was canonised at the climax of AC/DC's set at Donington in 1991, narrowly avoiding third degree burns, and is immortalised "out in the street" in Sandown, Isle of Wight:

[Fozza]

Pete Shelley has never fallen in love with someone he shouldn't of.

[ras52]

Prince recorded much of his fifth album at home on a shoestring, and intended to mark this by naming it after its budget of Twenty Dollars.

The album went on be Prince's most successful so far, and some of the credit must go to the executive at Warner Bros. who was adamant that the company follow a strict policy on psychological pricing, and renamed the album as 19.99.

[Fozza]

Jasper Carrott was the original tuba player in ELO. He was sacked after he ate one of Roy Wood's chocolate HobNobs without asking first.

[Fozza]

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1415462463' post='2600621']
Carly Simon was once engaged to Ziggy Marley, but broke it off as her married name would have been Carly Marley.
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She also turned down Steve Harley for similar reasons.