Interesting facts about Music!

1)The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the US (106 million), followed by Garth Brooks second (92 million), Led Zeppelin (83 million), Elvis Presley (77 million), and the Eagles (65 million). Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records.

2)The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.

3)The longest song to reach number one on the Billboard charts on LP was “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meatloaf, the shortest: “Stay” by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs.

4) In 1952, John Cage composed and presented ‘ 4’33″ ‘, a composition consisting of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

5) In 1972 Leslie Harvey of Stone the Crows died after being electrocuted onstage in England. In 1976 Keith Relf, who used to play for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted by his guitar while playing in his basement. During a mid-performance in 1994 Ramon Barrero, a Mexican musician famous for playing the world’s smallest harmonica,inhaled the harmonica and choked to death.

6) U2 was originally known as Feedback. To date, U2 have sold more than 70 million records, grossing $1,5 billion.

7)Although The Beatles broke up 25 years ago, they continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.

8) Jimi Hendrix was thrown out of high school for holding the hand of a white girl in class.

9) An album called ’’The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan’’ had been released by Stiff Records. The entire disc contained 40 minutes of silence.

10) Gene Simmons of Kiss has a tongue that is seven inches long. Most men have tongues that are five inches at most.

11) Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died of alcohol overdose. It is said that he downed 18 bottles of whisky before he passed away in his sleep.

12) Robbie Williams was scared to death one night of a prowler and had to call the police. The prowler was Courtney Love, drunk and banging on the door asking for a sexual favour.

13) Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler once strode all along a passenger plane naked since a band member had bet otherwise. It took some time for the flummoxed stewardesses to bring things back to normalcy.