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Facts in category: Music
| "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" the 1960 hit for Elvis Presley was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926 as a vaudeville recitation and first recorded by Al Jolson. |
| The first group to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were The Coasters. |
| More than 2,500 cover versions of The Beatles' "Yesterday" exist, making it the most recorded song in history. |
| Barry Manilow's hit, "I Write The Songs" was actually written by Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys. |
| Glen Frey of the Eagles played rhythm guitar on Bob Seger's "Ramblin', Gamblin' Man. |
| Puff Daddy/P Diddy throws away his trainers after wearing them for just one day. |
| When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed the song "Hey Jude," to cheer Julian up. |
| Over 400 musicians applied for a part in The Monkees, including Stephen Stills, John Sebastian and Harry Nilsson. |
| The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. |
| Sonny and Cher were initially known as Caesar and Cleo. |
| David Howell Evans, U2's 'The Edge' used to live in the Los Angeles house where Eric and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in 1989. |
| Deep Purple were the first ever rock band to play together with a symphonic orchestra. |
| As a boy, David Bowie was taught art by Peter Frampton's father, Owen Frampton, at Bromley Technical School where he was an art teacher and head of the Art department. Both Bowie and Frampton were pupils at this school. |
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