50 Music Fun-Facts You Won't Believe! 

For those too lazy to check the Wikipedia article on Mayhem, the lead singer Dead committed suicide in 1991, and the guitarist Euronymous photographed his body to use as the cover art for their bootleg live album, Dawn of the Black Hearts. Euronymous took bits of Dead's skull and made necklaces for members of the black metal scene. Bassist Necrobutcher was disgusted and quit the band, and he was replaced by Varg Vikernes. Vikernes then stabbed Euronymous to death 2 years later.

Johnny Cash was the first person outside of the USSR to know about Stalin's death

Eminem watching cartoons with his daughter instead of accepting an oscar is very on brand and the best thing i heard all week

My fav not mentioned here... rapper Pusha T wrote the classic “I'm Lovin' It” jingle for McDonald's.

'Hey Jude' should have an 'Explicit' tag on Streaming services now

I would definitely like it if this were to become a series

Nothing about Ringo Starr being Thomas the Tank Engine? I am very disappointed.

I don’t know why, but Jason Mraz supplying avocados to Chipotle makes sense for some reason.

Hey guys, he called blur “that woo-hoo band”

The entire Norwegian Black Metal scene is INSANE

The girl who graffitied Kurt smells like teen spirit on the wall was Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill

Phil Collins recorded 4 versions of the Tarzan sound track because he knew how heat that shit was: German French Spanish and English

#51: The popular band “Tame Impala” is actually not a band at all, but just one guy named Kevin Parker.

2 fun facts about the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) 1. One of their most popular songs, Evil Woman, was a filler that was written in 15 minutes 2. They have the most top 40 hits in the US while not having a number 1 hit

"The Old Dope Peddler" sounds like a trap song before rapping went mainstream

The Mayhem Wikipedia page sounds like a creepy pasta wtf

of COURSE Lana has a metaphysics degree

Bon Jovi stepping into the music industry with a Star Wars-themed Christmas song was the one that made me laugh the most

Mayhem is legitimately insane

Blur was also pretty well recieved in the us for the song Girls and boys

Flava flave having gone to culinary school makes sense considering his name

Alright Alfo, the Beatles releasing 6 albums in 3 years is nothing compared the 347 albums viper released in 2014 ;)

Police fun fact that a lot of people might already know: In the beginning measures of Roxanne you can hear a weird bit of piano followed by laughter. Sting sat down on the piano thinking it was closed before playing those first bass notes.

Actually the friend that graffitied Kurt smells like teen spirit was none other than Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill

"Motörhead" by Hawkwind, was the first rock song to include the word "Paralellogram" in its lyrics. and "Motörhead" was the last song that Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind before getting kick out of the band. As well as "Motorhead" was the first song that Lemmy covered with his new band called Motörhead (the original name for the band was called "Bastards") for their debut album called Motörhead (Badly forgot to add this in) Before having Brian Johnson to front AC\DC prior to the death of Bon Scott, both of the Young brother first choice to replace Bon was Noddy Holder (Front-Man of Slade) but he declined

Oh also on the Iommi fact, the reason guitars in metal is downtuned is because it was too painful for him to do typical tuning so he downtuned his guitar so it didn’t hurt as bad on his fingers. Now downtuning is a standard of metal as a result.

the eminem one is honestly so wholesome

Kurts friend was Kathleen Hannah from Bikini Kill and El Tigre, She’s also married to Ad Rock from the bestie boys.

Continuing with the “In-a-gadda-da-vida” facts, the song-well over 11 minutes-was originally supposed to be a short 60s rock song similar to the common length of music then, but while the band, Iron Butterfly, was in the studio messing around, one of the production assistants (I believe when the producer was out of the studio) started recording them because they thought it sounded really good, and then it became the entire “B” side of their album with the same name, as well as one of the most popular psychedelic rock songs of the 1960s.

the sex pistols were a manufactured boy band put together by Malcolm McLaren based on what they looked like not their musical ability. Jimi Hendrix only had one song make it into the Billboard top 40 in the US making him (technically) a one hit wonder and it wasn't even one of his songs, it was a cover of Bob Dylan's all along the watchtower

I'm kinda sad that you didn't mention that Ween's album The Mollusk was a big inspiration for Spongebob Squarepants.

First time seeing a 9:59 video

I was just watching your "My 100 Favourite Songs of all time" when this video dropped.

Alfo Media: I will survive is the best disco song Night Fever by Bee Gees: Hold my Beer

Addition to the smells like teen spirit part: the people who spray painted the phrase were Kurt’s Girlfriend at the time, Tobi Vail and her band mate, Kathleen Hanna. The band the women were in was Bikini Kill, the band that coined the rrr in riot grrrl and one of the most successful and popular bands in that genre.

To complete the daft punk trivia, that band was called Darlin and it also featured Phoenix's very own Laurent 'Branco' Brancowitz.

Everything about Ozzy Osborne’s live could be on this list.

Prince fun fact: He mastered 27 instruments and played all of them on his first 5 albums

3:14 for this fact i heard that Paul McCartney was the one who said it after messing up a piano part

0:04 james holzhauer is a legend

Damn I caught an upload 8 seconds in Edit: These were actually impressive. Wow.

7:10 EXTRA fun fact: The friend who wrote "Kurt smells like teen spirit" was actually Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of both riot grrrl bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre

Flava Flave and Toto were complete surprises. Very cool channel, thanks for the work you put into this!

Extra Trivia! Brian May from Queen built the guitar that he uses to this day when he was a teenager with his father. They carved the wood from an old mantle piece and used parts from an old motor bike in it. The whammy bar was one of his mother's knitting needles. Oh, and Brian also has a PhD in astrophysics and was one of the people who assisted NASA with getting a probe to Pluto as part of the New Horizons project.

these were honestly super interesting :) would watch them all day if i could

1:24 BONUS FUN FACT: One of the Weather Girls also sang on the the House hit "Ride on Time" by Blackbox but wasn't credited until fairly recently

Thank you for this excellent clip! I love that it's so 100% to the point. No five minute intro that is so common on RU-vid these days. Also liked the high speed of this wonderful, very interesting clip.

I would LOVE a part 2 to this, this was soo interesting

Extra Trivia! Lenny Kravitz wrote the song 'Johnny Cash'. The song contains odd lyrics if you don't know the story behind it. 'Hold me like Johnny Cash. Whisper in my ear like June Carter...' Lenny was driving when he received word that his mother had died. Not trusting himself to keep driving he stopped at a recording studio he was familiar with and broke down inside. Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter-Cash were leaving when they saw Lenny sobbing. After finding out what happened Johnny firmly embraced him and began praying. June was whispering encouraging things in his ear. They stayed with him for some time like this and Lenny has never forgotten the kindness they showed him in this moment.

3:15 I went to that song right away to hear it for myself and yep, I heard it. It’s faint but it’s there.

One of the rappers of 90s alternative hip hop trio Digable Planets ("Rebirth of Slick") is Lil Tracy's dad. Also Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar who has worked closely with The Beatles' George Harrison is Norah Jones' dad. Stevie Wonder played almost all the instruments on his albums, including drums despite being blind. Sting sings background vocals on Dire Straits' "Money for nothing". Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers played the bass line on Young MC's "Bust a move" and Kerry King from Slayer played the guitar solo on "No Sleep til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys. Sinead O'Connors hit "Nothing Compares 2 U", the Bangles' "Manic Monday", Alicia Keys' "How come you don’t call me anymore" and Chaka Khan's "I feel for you" were all written by Prince.

Extra Trivia! The band ZZ Top got their start pretending the be the band The Zombies. The song Time of the Season had just become a massive hit in the US and people were wanting to hear them live. The thing is that The Zombies were an English band and had broken up so no tours. A promoter, realizing that there was money to be had, hired, not one but two groups to portray themselves as the Zombies to US crowds. He later tried the same thing with the Animals but the lead singer of that band went to a concert with a bunch of Hell's Angels and chased them off of the stage in the middle of a concert.

The ZZ Top/Beard one is my favorite and I actually knew that already.

No joke, Tom Lehrer is one of my favorite artists of all time.

factoid actually means something that everyone thinks is a fact but isn't confirmed as one

Thanks for throwing in a few for us metal fans. Much love. Love these vids from you on music!

More fun fact: Tom Lehrer reportedly invented the jello shot so he could sneak alcohol onto a military base he was stationed in. Man was a living breathing legend.

Big Tom Lehr fan here. My mom who also recorded in the 50’s owned his albums. Some of my faves? Be Prepared, The Vatican Rag, I wanna go back to Dixie. Really impressive 2 embraced Tom’s mathematics in song as these days some of Tom’s lyrics could be considered politically incorrect. However, just like the novel Tom Sawyer, there are offenses there that need footnotes. Tom is a product of his time. Glad he’s still around.

This is pretty cool! Thank you for the effort you put in to this piece of work!

The bassist of Blur, Alexander James, owns and runs a 200 acre artisan cheese farm

The only fact here I know isn't technically right was John Lennon yelling about his headphones.

Thought it was gonna be some rehashed stuff. Dude excellent stuff! Thank you. The Toto Thriller thing blow me away.

51. The explosion before the chorus of The Bee Gees song "Tragedy" was done by Barry Gibb's mouth and hands over a microphone because the studio did not have a sound effect machine.

Michel Gondry, the director of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (And some of the most importants videoclips ever: Around The World - Daft Punk, Star Guitar - Chemical Brothers...) plays the drums on Diamonds From Sierra Leone by Kanye

This should definitely be a series

Dolly Parton wrote 2 songs in one day? Well Playboi Carti invented MUSIC in one day

This was so much better than I thought it was going to be. Would love to see part 2.

4:28 MJ looks good - like a Brazilian footballer or something. If only someone could've convinced him to stop the alterations there.

This is such a great video, PLEASE make more of these

I loved this format, please do more of those

So we just gonna ignore that this man just informed us of the musical prodigi that is flava flave

That 2Chainz "Ol Dope Peddler" story was the best!! 😂😅💗💯

4:49 srsly. You yanks are really missing out on blur. Go listen to The Universal, Coffee and TV, or Park Life if you want to understand British culture

Man, I arrive here 7 months after the video release... *Just after Daft Punk's break up.*

That 2 chains fact at the end was PRICELESS and made my mornimg..

Please do more of these, this video was great!

Dude.just found your channel.i love trivia.i'm insanely good at it

Here's a couple for ya Huey Lewis played harmonica with Thin Lizzy on their Live & Dangerous tour Ritchie Blackmore was once licensed as a wandering minstrel in New York State

"Tartini's dream later became the inspiration for 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'. True story". - Barney Stinson

26 - too funny! 27 - I always thought that sounded like Michael but didn't know he sang backup on that song.

#31.5 - Though Blur may not have had a lot of success in the U.S., the front man went on to found The Gorillaz.

I really liked this video. Hope you do more of these.

Do another 50 fun facts

Tom was probably just so happy that someone actually asked to source his material. Alot of people have no respect when it comes to plagiarism

This is one of coolest music related videos

The part about the dream is funny because it reminded me of the devil went down to Georgia

Actually, Foo Fighters first album wasn't made as Dave's way to cope because the album demos were done by in 1992-1993 before Kurt died. He actually listened to it and if my i remember correctly even said that they were pretty cool and he should record them. Then in 1994 after his death recording it may have indeed been a way for Dave to cope or to try to "move-on"

Wow that mayhem thing is a rabbit hole

#50 is priceless! That’s a long way to wait for a crack line regarding a joke song about dope; but all involved are Dope AF G’s in my book!

Correction: Dolly Parton had the two songs in the same tape for the span of one week. She told in an interview in GMA that she was not entirely sure, but they are in the same week in the same recording tape she used.

Mr Brightside has been on the UK top 100 every single year since it was released

Late anecdote I have, but... Another musician, as far as I'm aware, is living off of the royalties of one song. Patrick, a french musician, sang "Born to be Alive", a disco hit which still allows him to live confortably to this day due to his common usage

Dude this is exactly what I wanted Fuck yeah I hope there's more

This was great! I’ll bring them up in my next family dinner!

Actually Elvis did indeed have songwriting credits on a few of his songs. Technically cowriting, but still has the credits as a writer.

#39 is a really creative way of conducting QC

Amazing video, more pls!

3:27 *laughs in King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard*

Great video man. Very interesting and enjoyable. Maybe do another?

Been wanting to get back into music since ive gotten my life and depression in check. And this is the channel ive been needing. Liked subbed and will do so for all vids I remember it on. Lol Edit. Rip darrrell.