Odd factoids

[classic33]

The first Milky Bar Kid is ageing in reverse, he was 58 in 2009 & 50 in 2011.

 

[NorthernDave]

Captain Beefheart was so named as his heart had been replaced with a large tomato during a radical medical experiment in the 1960s.

 

[classic33]

Captain Beefheart was so named as his heart had been replaced with a large tomato during a radical medical experiment in the 1960s.

Just as well it wasn't a cherry tomato!

 

[Drago]

Captain Beefheart was only a Lieutenant.

 

[midlife]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was not sensational.

 

[Dirk]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was not sensational.

Yer they were.......I saw them at Birmingham Town Hall in 1970, they were brilliant!

 

[Drago]

Barclay James Harvest never banked at Barclay's, or helped gather in the harvest.

 

[Dave7]

The Monkeys (60s group) were not all real monkeys. Two of them were and the rest wore makeup and silly suits to fool the public.

 

[NorthernDave]

Yer they were.......I saw them at Birmingham Town Hall in 1970, they were brilliant!

Point of order - brilliant is clearly good, but is it as good as sensational?

 

[Dave7]

Point of order - brilliant is clearly good, but is it as good as sensational?

'Good point well made' NorthernDave

 

[Dirk]

Point of order - brilliant is clearly good, but is it as good as sensational?

Better.

 

[Paulus]

The Monkeys (60s group) were not all real monkeys. Two of them were and the rest wore makeup and silly suits to fool the public.

Nor where the Animals, even thought they came from Newcastle. That was just a cruel slur.

 

[Drago]

The Shadows were not shadows, and had real physical form.

 

[bruce1530]

Whereas Cliff Richard does not cast a shadow.

 

[colly]

The name 'Richard' in Cliff Richard, was deliberately choosen over the more usual 'Richards' because it gave the chance to correct the mistake often made by adding the 's'. Reinforcing the name and making it more memorable.