Interesting

• The only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard.
• None of Elvis’s films got nominated for Oscar, but he did win three Grammy Awards - for his gospel recordings.
• John Lennon wrote “Good morning, good morning” after hearing a Corn Flakes commercial.
• Marilyn Monroe got a white poodle named Mafia from Frank Sinatra.

• The airplane that Buddy Holly died in was called “American Pie”. Don McLean wrote a song with the same name about the accident.
• Duran Duran was named after a mad scientist from the Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella”.
• The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
• Before composing Beethoven dipped his head in cold water.
• Like humans, birds can learn music while they are still in the egg stage.
• Mozart was five years old when he wrote his first piece.
• The first pop video was released in 1975. It was “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen.
• In 1976 Barry Manilow sang a chart topping song named “I write the songs”. The song wasn’t written by him.
• Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.
• When Madonna was 15 years old, she got grounded for the whole summer, for sneaking out to see David Bowie in concert.
• In the year 1988 tenor Luciano Pavarotti received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house.
• Make music not war: Monaco’s national orchestra is bigger that its army.
• Wham!’s hit single “Wake me up before you go go” was written by George Michael who was inspired by the note that was left to his hotel room by another band member Andrew Ridgeley. The note was mistakenly written as “Don’t forget to wake me up up before you go go, George”.
• “House of the rising sun” by The Animals was recorded with only 15 minutes because the band was on a tight budget. In spite of that the song went all the way to number one in 1964.
• 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.
• When Billy Crystal was a child, his babysitter was the legendary Billie Holiday.
• Suzanne Vega is considered the “mother” of the mp3 format. The creators of the mp3 used her voice from the song “Tom’s Diner” for analyzing the different sound spectrums when creating the compression algorithm.

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Listening to

Rheostatics Tribute - The Secret Sessions
The Only Thing I Ever Wanted - Psapp
Solid Gold - Eagles of Death Metal
Waiting for the Weekend - The Vapours
Auto Rock - Mogwai
Rust - Echo and the Bunnymen - Crystal Days

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Christmas Rock Albums

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year

Jimi Hendrix
This five song maxi-single wasn't intended as a Christmas record. It is the result of Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies fooling around as they rehearsed for concerts at Filmore East during the 1969 holiday season. This won't be the first CD you run for when it's time to cue up the holiday music, but it is definitely worth having for its historical and entertainment value.

December

Moody Blues
The Moodies' orchestral backup is well suited to the sounds of the season. Songs range from traditional (White Christmas) to original (Don't Need a Reindeer) to a cover of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

SantaMental

Steve Lukather
This 10-track compilation also features Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Steve Vai, and Edgar Winter lending their rock guitar virtuosity -- and on some tracks, their voices -- to traditional Christmas carols.

Winter Carols
Blackmore's Night

Ritchie Blackmore: ex-lead guitarist for Deep Purple and Rainbow.

Candice Night: ex-backup vocalist for Deep Purple and Rainbow

Blackmore's Night: progressive/folk rock band featuring Night as lead vocalist and lyricist, and Blackmore on anything with strings.

Blackmore and Night have been living together since 1991, engaged since 1994, and making music together as Blackmore's Night since 1997. Their holiday music blends rock and Renaissance.

Christmas Joy

The Ventures

Christmas on a surf board? Well, not really, but done with the Ventures' signature slide guitars, prominent percussion, and lots of reverb. Arrangements of traditional carols are pretty faithful to the orginals, with a liberal amount of 60s Surf Rock flavoring.

Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas

Various Artists
This is THE electric guitar holiday album: Jeff Beck, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Richie Sambora, and Steve Morse (among others) turn in some innovative and sometimes surprising arrangements of traditional Christmas carols.

A Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

Various Artists
Elton John, Bob Seger, The Moody Blues, Elvin Bishop, and Chuck Berry are examples of the eclectic mix of artists represented on this CD. There is a method to the madness -- it is a well rounded sampling of virtually every Classic Rock sub-genre.

A Classic Rock Christmas

Various Artists
Artists that didn't release Christmas albums did occasionally record holiday singles that wound up on compilations like this one. Styx, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and Joe Walsh (Eagles) are among the rockers who tip a hat to the holiday season in this collection.

Billboard Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

Various Artists
Another compilation, this one with a roster that includes Queen, The Kinks, Billy Squier, and Cheech & Chong. This album isn't exactly mellow, but it has a softer edge than you might expect given the artist roster.

Christmas Time Again

Lynyrd Skynyrd
There's plenty of typical Skynyrd here -- Run Run Rudolph and Skynyrd Family but there are also a couple of suprises, like the sensitive, acoustic instrumental treatments of Greensleeves and Classical Christmas.

Playlist

Jackson Browne - Your bright baby blues
The Beatles - Hey Jude
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
T Rex - 20th Century Boy
The Temptations - Don't look Back
Plain White Ts - Hey there Delilah
Creedance clearwater revival - Bad Moon rising
Ingrid Michaelson - Keep Breathing
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

Kings of Leon