In 1967 a rumor began circulating that Beatles member Paul McCartney had died and was replaced by a doppelganger. This rumor picked up steam and within two years had become an international […]
The (Late) Great Paul McCartney
No Fan of Jacko
“Michael Jackson’s album was called ‘Bad’ because there wasn’t enough room on the sleeve for ‘Pathetic’.” — Prince source
Musical Running for Extroverts
Music can boost your running performance by up to 15%, but only if you’re a particular kind of runner. If you tend to focus inward while running, music probably won’t help you […]
If I Could Finish This Song, It Would Be Loverly
Alan Jay Lerner took two weeks to write the last line of “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” for the play My Fair Lady. The concluding words are, “Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.”
Backing Into a Musical Hit
At the beginning of the song “Roxanne” by The Police, during the intro, you can hear a strange piano chord, then Sting laughing. In fact, during the voice recording, Sting accidentally sat […]
Get Out of the Way… And Get in Tune!
Until the mid-1960s most American car horns were tuned to the musical notes of E-flat or C. Since then, many manufacturers have moved up on the scale to notes F-sharp and A-sharp. […]
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