11 interesting facts about music
- To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
- John Lennon wrote “Good morning, good morning” after hearing a Corn Flakes commercial.
- The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980. The first CD that was pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
- Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
- He has sold 75 million albums to date and is one of the best-selling music artists in the world.
- Prince played 27 different instruments on his debut album For You.
- When Elvis Presley was inducted into the US Army on March 24th, 1958, Uncle Sam started losing an estimated $500,000 in lost taxes for each year that Private Presley served.
- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain all died at age 27.
- The Beastie Boys is an acronym for Boys Entering Anarchistic Stages Towards Internal Excellence.
- Termites will eat wood two times faster when listening to heavy metal.
- The largest drum ever made was 12 feet in diameter. It weighed 600 pounds.
