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Mar. 21st, 2008 09:04 am01. Pick five of your favorite singers/groups.
02. Go to Last.fm or Wikipedia and look up their biographies.
03. Post at least one interesting fact for each singer/group.
04.Tag five people on your f-list to do the same thing. Explain why your unpatriotic ass isn't participating in the Great LJ Strike of 2008.
oo5. The Who
The Who famously destroyed their equipment onstage at the Monterey Pop Festival that year [1967] and subsequently repeated the routine on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with literally explosive results as Keith Moon detonated his drum kit.
oo4. Mick Jagger
Jagger was a producer of and acted in the short-lived comedy The Knights of Prosperity. The premise was that a group of inept, blue-collar thieves want to get rich quick, so they plot to rob Mick Jagger. In fact, the sitcom's working title was Let's Rob Mick Jagger, which was later renamed. Jagger guest starred in the premiere episode, which aired in 2007 on ABC.
oo3. Muse
Celine Dion was threatened with legal action in 2002 when she planned to name her Las Vegas show "Muse", despite the band owning the worldwide performing rights to the name. Celine Dion offered $50,000 for the rights but Muse rejected this with [band frontman] Matthew Bellamy stating that "We don't want to turn up there with people thinking we're Celine Dion's backing band." Eventually Dion was forced to back down.
oo2. Arcade Fire
[Songwriter] Win Butler has been a vocal supporter of Barack Obama since the end of the New Hampshire Primary. Arcade Fire performed two free concerts for Obama in Ohio on March 2, 2008 and March 3, 2008 before the March 4th primary.
oo1. Three Dog Night
An official commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965-1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton’s then-girlfriend June Fairchild thought of the name when she read a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs, and if a night was especially cold, it was a “Three Dog Night.”
And, uh, because I'm lazy.
(And because monster trucks, Monster Trucks, MONSTER TRUCKS!)
02. Go to Last.fm or Wikipedia and look up their biographies.
03. Post at least one interesting fact for each singer/group.
04.
oo5. The Who
The Who famously destroyed their equipment onstage at the Monterey Pop Festival that year [1967] and subsequently repeated the routine on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with literally explosive results as Keith Moon detonated his drum kit.
oo4. Mick Jagger
Jagger was a producer of and acted in the short-lived comedy The Knights of Prosperity. The premise was that a group of inept, blue-collar thieves want to get rich quick, so they plot to rob Mick Jagger. In fact, the sitcom's working title was Let's Rob Mick Jagger, which was later renamed. Jagger guest starred in the premiere episode, which aired in 2007 on ABC.
oo3. Muse
Celine Dion was threatened with legal action in 2002 when she planned to name her Las Vegas show "Muse", despite the band owning the worldwide performing rights to the name. Celine Dion offered $50,000 for the rights but Muse rejected this with [band frontman] Matthew Bellamy stating that "We don't want to turn up there with people thinking we're Celine Dion's backing band." Eventually Dion was forced to back down.
oo2. Arcade Fire
[Songwriter] Win Butler has been a vocal supporter of Barack Obama since the end of the New Hampshire Primary. Arcade Fire performed two free concerts for Obama in Ohio on March 2, 2008 and March 3, 2008 before the March 4th primary.
oo1. Three Dog Night
An official commentary included in the CD set Celebrate: The Three Dog Night Story, 1965-1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton’s then-girlfriend June Fairchild thought of the name when she read a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs, and if a night was especially cold, it was a “Three Dog Night.”
And, uh, because I'm lazy.
(And because monster trucks, Monster Trucks, MONSTER TRUCKS!)
