We love fun facts. Here are a few cool things you may not have known about your favorite rockers and their songs…
The classic Deep Purple song “Smoke On The Water” is about the Montreux 1971 concert where Frank Zappa’s bungalow burned to the ground.
Eddie Van Halen plays the lead on “Beat It” from Michael Jackson, Duane Allman on the opening riff of “Layla.” Did you know that Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees in 1967 on a tour that lasted nearly the entire summer?
Two of the best bands of all time never toured and are relatively unknown; these two bands are the ‘Wrecking Crew’ in Los Angeles who played on thousands of songs as session musicians, and ‘The Funk Brothers’ the session band that you’ll hear behind all the Motown songs.
Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” was the first single to hit the charts that was over three minutes in length, breaking the unwritten rule that hit records for airplay had to be three minutes or less.
Ronnie Van Zandt died in the fiery Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in 1977. Neil Young and Skynyrd did not get along in real life, poking each other in songs. What people don’t know is that he’s wearing a Neil Young t-shirt underneath the dress shirt in his coffin.
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