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FeaturedThe lyrics to Commodores’ anthem Brickhouse were literally written in William King’s sleep
The music for the hit song was born from a jam session lead by bass player Ronald LaPread while on a break in the studio recording the album. Producer, James Carmichael recognised potential in the jam and recorded it and asked the band members to take the riff home to see if they could turn… Read more
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Rivers Cuomo of Weezer’s dad missed his birth because he was at home watching the football World Cup
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Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth dated the guy who wrote the Simpsons’ theme tune while she was at high school
In her autobiography Girl In Band, Kim Gordon mentions that in 1969, while in high school she met and started dated Danny Elfman – who would go on to be the singer and songwriter for Oingo Boingo, also scoring many of Tim Burton’s films and probably most famously/lucratively composing The Simpsons’ theme tune.
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