ITT: Surprising music facts

Damon Albarn's dad used to managed the Soft Machine

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His father is probably ashamed of all the garbage he's put out then

Jamie Stewart's father produced Piano Man by Billy Joel and was nominated for a Grammy.

Basically this again:

Soft Machine? Or just a soft machine.

He was the man in charge of looking after Robert Wyatt's Soft Machine
...Wait, that came out wrong

Harry Partridge (the animator) is the son of XTC's Andy Partridge.

Incidentally, XTC's Andy Partridge is the father of Harry Partridge (the animator)

came here to post this

One of Steve Reich's very first pieces of music was written for an experimental minstrel film called "Oh dem watermelons"

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We all laugh at cheesy Christian music, but did you know The Nation of Islam utilised Hip Hop in the golden age to spread its message? This manifested in acts such as Wu-Tang Clan, Jay Z and Nas.

Incidentally, H.P. Lovecraft is the author of Herbert West: Re-Animator.

Krs one just dropped an album

what the fuck am I watching?

Ricky Gervais managed Suede early in their career.

Brian Wilson used to chain Mike Love to a bed and beat him with a belt until he sang in key.

good.

Ricky Gervais was also in a Synthpop band
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Wikipedia has a whole bit about this being a massive hit in the Philipines which I can't tell if it's bollocks or not

Also Pointless co-host Richard Osman's brother is the bassist in Suede

Good thread. The dude who wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events played some guitar on 69 Love Songs

You'll Be In The Air is about eating box

David Bowie and Peter Frampton went to school together and they played Buddy Holly covers together during lunch breaks

That guy is Mat Osman's brother? wtf

What a handsome lesbian he used to be

I mean, there's not many other 7 foot Osmans going about

Here's a nice picture of the two of them

What's Brianna Wu doing hanging out with Will Toledo?

Sounds hot desu

Nick Mason produced Rock Bottom

>eating box
What
Are you talking about cunnilingus?

Also produced the Damned's second album

And he came 18th in the 1979 Le Mans 24 hour race

this blows my mind, happy harry was the shit in middle school

Peter Hook almost joined the Rolling Stones until someone told him he was tone deaf.

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Peter Hook and Stephen Morris were both questioned in connection to the Yorkshire ripper murders because their tour schedule roughly followed ripper murder locations. Morris was even arrested and his mum had to come and stop him from freaking out over it.

Yes

Graham Coxon has a collection of motorcycles.

Also
>Kurt Cobain drove a Volvo
>David Berman is the son of lobbyist Richard Berman
>Stephen Malkmus plays in a softball league in Portland
>Buck Dharma started playing guitar after a wrist injury playing basketball.
>George Harrison was really into auto racing
>Paul McCartney plays the solo on Taxman, not George.
>The first Foo Fighters record is Dave Grohl, on every instrument, on every song, EXCEPT, Greg Dulli, who added a guitar part to "X-Static"

I don't know how surprising those are, but I think they're interesting.