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    Posted: 27-May-2008 at 13:27

Got a favourite song which there is a detail you feel we should all know about?

Share it here.

Must confess to being a bit of a nerd when it comes to music trivia,and thought I'd post a different fact every day. But then I thought I'd probably run out after a week or so,so maybe I'll post one a week.

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Song Fact number 1...

Turn up the volume for the piano fade out of David Bowie's 'Life on Mars' where you can hear a phone ringing...turns out somebody left the studio door open...

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Oh no! This is like those mistakes you see in movies. Once you see them, you can't UNsee them. Ok...how many songs are going to be ruined for me now.

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Just listen to that Martin lol.. You can also hear someone talking too
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Lyrics from Pride below is reference to Martin Luther King assassination

"Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride"

MLK was shot in the evening time at 6:01 and not the early morning. This debate came up on another site. U2 fans were saying that Bono got it wrong the time wrong with his lyrics. But did he ??

Anyone know why he didn't ??


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Floyd Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-May-2008 at 17:59

Hence also the song MLK on the same album Pete?

 

Not necessarily mistakes Jen-just what a song might be about or why a certain noise or sound might be on it.

But while on the subject... ( ! )

The drummer on Van the man's Moondance song admitted to missing a snare drum beat on the intro just before the lyrics start. (except it's not a snare drum beat it's a 'rim shot',where the stick strikes the steel rim of the snare drum.)

However,he 'missed' the rim on the second bar just before the vocals. Like you say Jen-when you notice it first it never goes away then!

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Originally posted by Floyd Floyd wrote:

Hence also the song MLK on the same album Pete?

 


Yeah Martin he got two songs which reminds me too. Pride was originally meant for Thatcher and Reagan originally and not to glorify them..


In case anyone wondering(I doubt it) about the "Early Morning April 4" lyric, It would have Early morning here in Ireland when MLK was shot

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Was just going to say that P!

Good one Martin about Life on Mars... I love the banter with the sound  engineer at the start of Andy Warhol on the same album (Hunky Dory).  Rick Wakeman plays piano on the album!
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Rick Wakeman released a single called "Animal Showdown" (Martin, you'll remember this).  Anyway, the song is instrumental but God only knows why Rick plays a piece from "...Yes, we have no bananas" right in the middle of of the track..must play again to make sure..

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Originally posted by Black Russian Black Russian wrote:


In case anyone wondering(I doubt it) about the "Early Morning April 4" lyric, It would have Early morning here in Ireland when MLK was shot


It would have been April 5th then!
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Originally posted by kbannon kbannon wrote:

Originally posted by Black Russian Black Russian wrote:


In case anyone wondering(I doubt it) about the "Early Morning April 4" lyric, It would have Early morning here in Ireland when MLK was shot


It would have been April 5th then!


And why would that be ??? Are we not 5-8 hours behind America, depending on where you are ???... (I bet I haven't thought this through and get shot down here )


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It was the same when John Lennon was shot. He was shot dead in New York on 8 December around 8 pm in New York, but it was 9th December around 1 am over here.
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Yeah sh*t I am wrong AGAIN!!!!
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Rolling Stones 'Satisfaction'.

At the end of each verse,just before the guitar riff comes back in,you can hear an audible 'click' each time as Richards puts his foot on an effects pedal...

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Originally posted by Brunswick Brunswick wrote:

Rick Wakeman released a single called "Animal Showdown" (Martin, you'll remember this). 

I remember the picture disc,Mel-has Rick in front of a snowcapped mountain or a blue sky???

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Originally posted by Black Russian Black Russian wrote:

Originally posted by kbannon kbannon wrote:


It would have been April 5th then!


And why would that be ??? Are we not 5-8 hours behind America, depending on where you are ???... (I bet I haven't thought this through and get shot down here )

...because the world is round and travels around the sun towards the East.

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ROFL Good one Killian, just not thinking straight these days, easily confused 
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Bono has since held his hand up about this one (early morning april 4th)and has stated he got it wrong ,and when he sings it live now he says (early evening april 4th) 

 

On Journey,s song ,Dont stop believing,they say ,(Just a city boy/born and raised in South Detroit),,,,thing is their is no South Detroit,otherwise you would be in Canada,,,God i need to get out more often 

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Originally posted by Floyd Floyd wrote:

Originally posted by Brunswick Brunswick wrote:

Rick Wakeman released a single called "Animal Showdown" (Martin, you'll remember this). 

I remember the picture disc,Mel-has Rick in front of a snowcapped mountain or a blue sky???

Thats the one.  Rick in front of a snowcapped mountain with a blue sky behind.  Some weird pic on side B with a guy and his dog wrapped in silver cloth in a snow scene (God only knows what thats about!).

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The Rolling Stones classic album Sticky Fingers with it's iconic Andy Warhol concept cover caused more than a few upsets on it's first release.

The album was (at great cost) designed with a real zip on a pair of trousers (thought to be worn by Jagger but was later revealed to be a model) which you could zip up and down.

Apart from the sexist and pornographical implications it was found that when packaged in large amounts,the zip would push into the record above it,damaging it's cover and the vinyl within,typically scratching the grooves on 'Sister Morphine'.

After nearly coming to legal costs with Atlantic,the answer was staring the designers in the face-simply unzip the zipper before shipment...

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