Odd factoids

[srj10]

Genesis drummer Phil Collins plays drums on the closing credits of Eastenders.

 

[bruce1530]

Phil Collins played "Bodie" in "The Professionals"

 

[raleighnut]

Phil Collins played "Bodie" in "The Professionals"

wasn't that Ben Collins

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Leo Sayer played Doyle in The Professionals. Bodie and Doyle would often drop famous song lyrics into each episode.

 

[srj10]

Leo Sayer was an extra in the film Mary Poppins, he was one of Dick Van Dykes chimney brushes.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

And oddly, during the filming he adopted the phrase, during the sweeps popping out of chimneys scene "they don't like it up 'em", which was immediately plagiarised by Croft and Perry and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

History was invented by scientists in a lab in 1947. Before then history did not exist, though it was theorised that it might.

 

[bruce1530]

Leo Sayer, the singer, was also an actor who appeared regularly in fantasy/horror movies. In his first, he killed a lion with his bare hands, and thereafter adopted the stage name " Leo Slayer".

 

[PeteXXX]

Contrary to popular belief, Leo Sayer cannot dance.

 

[Jenkins]

The video for the hit single 'Safety Dance' by Men Without Hats was shot in the countryside after they were refused permission to use a bulding site.

 

[srj10]

Led Zeppelin are said to use up to 80% less energy than Incandescent Zeppelin

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Lead Zepplin were poisoned by the plumbism movement. This was reflected in the songs on their last album ; abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, irritability, memory problems, infertility, and their greatest hit tingling in the hands and feet.

 

[PeteXXX]

Lez Zeppelin are an all girl tribute band...

Oops. That's actually true!! 🤘

 

[srj10]

Bananaramadan are a Muslim all girl tribute band.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The above girl tribute band were "excommunicated" for having ice cream on their bananas during Ramadan. Everyone knows it has to be custard.