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TH 12 Trivia
Collected by [Kileaiya], Bullets from Elftown Graphics
Mozart's Piano Sonata K448 was found to significantly increase spatial scores of college students on IQ tests when the Sonata was listened to for 10 minutes, dubbed the "Mozart Effect."
Clint Eastwood wrote many of the themes songs of his movies. He also sang a number of them
So you think downloading music from the Internet is a really cool modern thing? Not so. Music was transmitted down phone lines way back in 1876.
U2's original name was Feedback.
The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.
About 2.4 billion CDs are sold annually. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal.
About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.
Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientist in the movie Barbarella.
Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records.
A piano covers the full spectrum of all orchestra instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
The term "disc jockey" was first used in 1937.
To date, U2 have sold more than 70 million records, grossing $1,5 billion.
In May 1997, Paul McCartney broke his own world record by obtaining his 81st gold disc.
Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion.
Beethoven was the first composer who never had an official court position, thus the first known freelance musician. Born in 1770, he grew up poor, but published his first work at age
12. By age 20 he was famous. He often sold the same score to six or seven different publishers simultaneously
, and demanded unreasonably large fees for the simplest work. He was short, stocky, dressed badly, didn't like to bathe, lived in squalor, used crude language, openly conducted affairs with married women, and had syphilis.
Beethoven was deaf when he composed his Ninth Symphony.
Although The Beatles broke up 25 years ago, they continue to sell more than the Rolling Stones.
Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
When a record executive first met the band Pink Floyd he asked "Which one is Pink?"
The band "Lynryd Skynyrd" took their name from Physical Education teacher, Leonard Skinner. Skinner had given some of the band members a hard time in school because of their long hair.
Gene Simmons of Kiss has a tongue that is seven inches long. Most men have tongues that are five inches at most.
In February 1982, former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne urinated on the Alamo. He was arrested and charged with defiling a national monument and banned from performing in San Antonio. The ban was eventually lifted.
In 1999, Janis Joplin's former home in San Francisco's Haight District was converted into a drug re-hab center.
When Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon" finally fell off of Billboard's Hot 200 Album list in October 1988, it had set a record 741 weeks on the chart.
This Issue's Trivia Was Found At These Sites:
http://www.ensemble.org/news/NCME2.HTM
www.didyouknow.cd/music/music.htm
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Little_Known_but_Interesting_Facts_About_Music-75720-1.html
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