Music always gives a sense of pleasure and happiness. It is liked by people of every age group. The preferences may differ but the craving for good music remains the same. Music has so many varied forms like pop, rock, classical, hip hop and many more.

Something interests us much more when a little extra information is known about them. This information can be serious facts, weird tips or some funny data. Similarly, music will be more interesting if some funny facts are known about it. Such funny facts are mentioned below:

1. The only person in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard.
2. No movie of Elvis got nominated for Oscar, but he did win three Grammy Awards – for his Gospel recordings
3. John Lennon wrote Good morning, good morning after hearing a Corn Flakes advertisement.
4. Marilyn Monroe got a white poodle named Mafia from Frank Sinatra.
5. The plane in which Buddy Holly died was called American Pie. Don McLean had written a song having the same name about the accident.
6. Duran Duran was named after a mad scientist from the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.
7. The first CD that was played in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.
8. Before writing any song Beethoven put his head in cold water.
9. Birds can learn music while in egg stage, like humans.
10. Mozart’s age was of 5 years when he had written his first song.
11. The first pop video was released in 1975. It was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
12. In 1976 Barry Manilow sang a chart topping song named I write the songs. He didn’t write the song.
13. Termites eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.
14. Madonna was 15 years old when she was punished for the whole summer season for quietly going to see David Bowie in concert.
15. In 1988, tenor Luciano Pavarotti received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house.
16. Make music not war: Monaco’s national orchestra is bigger than its army.
17. Wake me up before you go go was written by George Michael who got his inspiration from a piece of writing left in his room by another band member Andrew Ridgeley. The writing was mistakenly penned as “Don’t forget to wake me up up before you go go, George”.
18. House of the rising sun by The Animals was recorded in just 15 minutes as the band had low budget. In spite of this song was at the top in 1964.
19. The longest song title is 305 characters (including spaces) : The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation by Rednex.
20. Billy Crystal as a child had legendary Billie Holiday as his babysitter.
21. Suzanne Vega is considered the “mother” of the mp3 format. While creating the compression algorithms, the originators of mp3 used her voice from the song Tom’s Diner to study the various sound spectrums.

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