Random Music Facts 1

• Bruce Springsteen was once busted for attempting to climb over the gates of Graceland in 1976
• Both Little Richard and M.C. Hammer are ordained ministers
• In Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light," off of his "Bat Out of Hell" album, features a play-by-play by sportscaster Phil Pizzuto
• The Police originally bleached their hair for a Wrigley's Gum commercial - the look stuck
• A standard CD is 4.7 inches wide
• Julie Andrews, Diana Ross, Paul Simon and Alice Cooper all have appeared as guests on The Muppet Show
• Most aired music video in MTV's history is Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer"
• Ross Perot can play the accordion
• Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young stole a truck in order to get to Woodstock in time to perform
• Elvis volunteered to be a drug informant for the FBI. His services were refused
• "Ice, Ice, Baby," by Vanilla Ice, was the first rap song to go to #1 on the Billboard chart
• Ozzy Osbourne plays a televangelist in the movie "Trick or Treat," who denounces heavy metal
• The song "This Land Is Your Land" was written in protest for the song "God Bless America"
• Stevie Wonder released an album in 1968 under the name Eivets Rednow (his name backwards)
  
• MTV's first guest VJ was Adam Ant
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band's song "Blinded By The Light" includes the melody "Chopsticks"
• "Blinded By The Light" was originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen on his debut album, "Greetings From Ashbury Park, N.J."
• "I am the best Keith Moon type drummer in the world" - Keith Moon
• Roy Orbison refused to play without his sunglasses
• Eddie Money is a graduate of the NYC Police Academy
  
• Bumper sticker on Alan Jackson's truck says "I Love George Jones"
• Bumper sticker on George Jones' truck says "I Love Alan Jackson"
• Both Alice Cooper and Aretha Franklin's fathers were ministers
• Estimated earnings of The Rolling Stones' 2006-07 tour - $500 million

Currently listening to alot of Prog-Metal/Rock, like Transatlantic, OSI and Dream Theater