23 facts you didn't know about classic songs

[@DavidBennettPiano]

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[@wyattstevens8574]

Was your section about "Smells Like Teen Spirit" there because of 12tone's analysis of that song? He mentions that toward the beginning!

[@MarkLewis...]

I wonder David, how many musicians today look at music from a scientific or even a subliminal point of view, and primarily write their songs in what is believed to be the most appealing chord progression to the human ear? Thanks for teaching me!

[@toronado455]

"A Demolished" 😂 Sting has a sense of humor.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

😂

[@illegal_space_alien]

Sting's always thinking in modes.

[@JonahNelson7]

Brits got that humor gene. Makes me jealous sometimes

[@tiyenin]

Richie Valens went to my alma mater, San Fernando High School

[@DeGuerre]

I think most people know this one: The whistled section from "(Sittin on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding was improvised during recording because Redding hadn't written lyrics for that section yet. He died before it could be fixed. I think that most people know that Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" samples Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise". What you may not know is that Stevie Wonder would not allow the use of the sample unless there was no profanity. This is how it became Coolio's most radio-friendly track. "Brown-Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison was originally "Brown-Skinned Girl". Two of Dolly Parton's most famous songs, "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You", were written in one day. On the same day.

[@williamspalace]

Also the bee gees hit 'to love somebody' was originally written for Otis Redding but he passed before getting a chance to record it so the bee gees released it themselves

[@davidl570]

@@williamspalace Dang, he would've done a great version of that! Speaking of a soulful cover of that song, Rod Stewart with Booker T. and the MGs did a great cover of that in '75 which I highly recommend---and not to be morbid, but it was recorded shortly before drummer Al Jackson was murdered.

[@williamspalace]

@@davidl570 ooof just listened to it then. Thanks for the recommendation it's a cracker

[@davidl570]

@@williamspalace Y/W! Rod does soul very well.

[@KingGrio]

Usually videos like this make me roll my eyes because they're really well known facts about famous musicians. But you've managed to surprise me and tell me a whole bunch of facts I didn't already know.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

😊😊😊

[@GodofMMA23]

Some were still obvious though, like the origin of the title 'Smells like teen spirit' and Kate Bush being the 1st female solo Performer/writer and sweet home alabama being a reply to Neil young

[@cypothingy]

Another fun fact about American Pie, while the official lyrics that Don wrote have never been fully released it’s speculated that in the chorus he isn’t saying “And good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye” but instead “…whiskey in Rye…” At the time he was writing the song he lived in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester County, NY, with neighboring town Rye just a few miles away. Tying into that, the “levee” he mentions earlier in the chorus (“Took my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry”) is likely a reference to the Levee Bar in New Rochelle. With that bar closed you would have had to gone over to Rye to get a drink, hence the lyrics of the song.

[@chaz6399]

Damn, this one comment alone made scrolling through the other comments worthwhile. Thank you!

[@AndrewFullerton]

That comes across as a bit overly literal to me. What would that interpretation of the lyrics actually *convey* to make it worth writing into the chorus of a song?

[@acbenepe]

That lyric has been bugging me for nearly half a century. Your theory makes more sense than any i've heard.

[@jacobnacho]

He was also reading Catcher in the Rye when he wrote the song

[@GRAHAMAUS]

It's still a terrible song.

[@ewmlloyd]

What has REALLY fascinated me about 10cc's _I'm Not in Love_ was the way they built the choir using tape loops and volume sliders many years before digital technology would've made it trivially easy.

[@cakemartyr5794]

Absolutely. There's a phenomenal number of multi-tracking on it, with about 128 vocal tracks or something silly like that.

[@jackhaugh]

Every member of 10cc was a record producer as well as musician. I’m not at all surprised.

[@bobinscotland]

@@jackhaugh The name 10cc was used because it was TWICE the 5cc amount of sperm produced by the average male...

[@mocker63]

@@bobinscotland Complete untrue. Just read the 10cc Wikipedia page: "King signed the band to his UK Records label in July 1972 and dubbed them 10cc. By his own account, King chose the name after having a dream in which he was standing in front of the Hammersmith Odeon in London where the boarding read "10cc The Best Band in the World". A widely repeated claim, disputed by King[19] and Godley,[20] but confirmed in a 1988 interview by Creme,[21] and also on the webpage of Gouldman's current line-up is that the band name represented ten cubic centimetres, a volume of semen that was more than the average amount ejaculated, thus emphasising their potency or prowess.:"

[@bobinscotland]

@@mocker63 You just agreed with me while trying to disagree... the second part of your statement is the story to which I was referring and is more or less what I said.

[@beatrixxxkiddo]

The reversed bass on you can call me Al is so cool and pretty creative imo

[@ednicholson7839]

"My Way" has a fairly interesting history. It started as a French pop hit called "Comme d'Habitude" with completely different lyrics, sung by a singer named Claude Francois. Paul Anka adapted it with totally different lyrics with Sinatra in mind, who at the time really wanted to quit the music business.

[@outtathyme5679]

Bowie reworked it into Life on Mars

[@ednicholson7839]

@@outtathyme5679 Yeah, I guess I can hear it in there a little bit.

[@Greenballoffire]

Bowie was originally offered it

[@norobotsrecords]

The inevitable mention of David Bowie's original attempt to write an English lyrics for what became 'My Way' and subsequent rejection of 'Even a Fool Learns to Love'. BUT did you know..? The third line of Bowie's version contains the words 'My way'! Inspirational or what?

[@FreddieHg37]

​​@@outtathyme5679 He was originally working as a lyricist and transcriber for a record comoany and was offered the song to arrange and modify/write new lyrics for it in English (regardless of it being a faithful copy or translation of the original) but then his version was rejected and he was refused the opportunity to sing a version or record a demo of it to showcase his lyrics, so he told them he didn't care since he could write a better song by himself and as a "revenge" he wrote "Life on Mars", which in my opinion, as an iconic song and legendary Glam Rock tune, is way better than "My way" either way…

[@irTaeke]

That sgt peppers bit in the run out groove actually made me want to trade in my record player for another one, because I couldn't stand that the record player would automatically switch off before reaching that run out groove

[@uVueD2b]

I think I read it in the liner notes of the CD anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper that the mixed up in every way imaginable run out clip was John's idea to annoy the dog.

[@3ggshe11s]

No, but I know what you're thinking of. In the space between the end of the piano chord of "A Day in the Life" and the runout groove, the Beatles dropped in a high-frequency pitch that, it was assumed, only dogs could hear. It was like putting a dog whistle in the song.

[@davidl570]

@@3ggshe11s Actually, according to the liner notes for the CD release of Pepper, it actually WAS a dog whistle.

[@5alpha23]

oh my god, PLEASE MORE OF THIS!!! That is some nerdy music gold there - I love it!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad you liked it 😃😃

[@5alpha23]

@@DavidBennettPiano Does it show? 😉 Sorry to show that kind of reaction on one of your more mainstream videos, I'm just easily entertained from time to time. 😅

[@patrickkparrker413]

God's title again .

[@sphericalharmony1603]

I wasn't keeping an exact count but I think I knew around 8 of them. To elaborate on the Her Majesty one, it originally went between Mean Mr Mustard and Polythene Pam. The crash at the beginning is the last note of Mean Mr Mustard. It was actually engineer John Kurlander who saved it and added it to the end of a rough mix of the medley after Paul McCartney had told him to throw it away (my source is Mark Lewisohn's Sessions book).

[@mariesyvian8187]

someone made a version where it's back in place kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpTZYnh8pMaLY5o

[@StarQueenEstrella]

Additionally, the extended version of the song, which doesn’t appear on the album, was later released as DLC for The Beatles: Rock Band game. It restores the final chord that the song ends on.

[@jasonremy1627]

Another fun fact about the Eddie Van Halen solo is that he refused cash payment for his studio time. He only asked for a case of beer.

[@HenritheHorse]

Also he ruined the original tape and Lukather and Porcaro had to rerecord the whole song.

[@jasonjerusalem]

The legend says, he didn't ask for money to keep his cool face, while working on a pop project. This plan backfired: Eddie's pals had a good laugh when they found out "Thriller" sales flew to the moon and Eddie got nothing out of it.

[@allenjones3130]

Rest in peace, Eddie.

[@JonahNelson7]

@@jasonjerusalem that's not what "backfired" means. I'm sure Van Halen knew some of the stuff he worked on would have blown up

[@akfreed6949]

To be clear , he demanded there be some Coors at the studio . During recording , his setup and playing caused a fire of the recording equipment . When his contribution was done , Micheal and Quincy quietly talked business and how they were going to "pay" Edward . Then Michael asked Eddie how much he wanted for his solo . Ed said he didn't want anything . He did it as a favor , thinking he might want or need Quincy's help later in life .

[@sp00ky_guy]

Since I'm early, I feel like now would be a good time to say thank you very much David! Your music content is some of the best on KZbin, and has really done more than anything else to help (at least my own) understanding of music theory. You really have a knack for teaching, and for the video format.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you! That means a lot 😊

[@KentBuchla]

@@DavidBennettPiano it's true

[@DavidBennettPiano]

@@KentBuchla thank you 🙏 😁😁

[@victorhawkins3461]

Exactly the kind of content I enjoy! Many of the facts I already knew -- I'm 68 years old and I've been following rock -n-roll since I was about 5 or so (a brother 14 years older than I was a rock guitar player as early as '58...). But several items you discussed were new to me. Thanks for further enlightening me!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

😊😊😊😊

[@zyzzyvacation]

A 1960s American girl group called The Crystals were a popular recording act with a number of top 20 hits to their name including, "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Then He Kissed Me". However, their only number one hit - "He's a Rebel" - (in 1962) never featured any of the girls on the recording. Due to deadlines involving the release of the song, producer Phil Spector commissioned in-demand L.A. girl group "Darlene Love and the Blossoms" to substitute for The Crystals who were on the East Coast and unavailable on such short notice. And so Darlene and her blossoms had a number one hit without ever receiving any credit for it. Incidentally, Darlene Love played Danny Glover's wife Trish in all four "Lethal Weapon" movies, after a career of backing the likes of Elvis Presley and Tom Jones in their various Las Vegas shows.

[@djangohick]

I was in a band with Randy Cierley, who was Neil Diamond's bassist for a while. According to Randy, the intro to Diamond's hit "Cracklin' Rosie" is, note-for-note, lifted from the interlude of "The Beer Barrel Polka."

[@cakemartyr5794]

The female backing vocalist on David Bowie's Sound and Vision is Mary Visconti, who, as Mary Hopkin, had a number one hit in 1968 with "Those were the days", and represented the UK at the 1970 Eurovision song contest.

[@lorenzodicapo6305]

Once upon a time, there was a tavern...

[@davidbeadle3270]

Mary Visconti was married to Tony Visconti who produced T-Rex, one of the biggest bands at the time in the UK

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Great list! Another fun fact about Suzanne Vega's 'Tom's Diner' is that the original Tom's Diner (actually called Tom's Restaurant) in New York is the exterior for Seinfeld's Monk's Diner.

[@apdesmits4985]

And she lived in the apartment across the street from Tom’s (and so did British artist Joe Jackson).

[@aldenroswell8504]

I love how this video flows from fact to fact, super well done!

[@patrickkparrker413]

" Super " , sake .

[@michaeladavis5225]

thank you for this. I'm 68 and was blown away.

[@MrMont-ue8kh]

Well done, David! I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about music, and I knew only 5 of the 23. Thanks!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Excellent!😊

[@myrv_the_ocelot]

Van Halen causing the speakers to catch fire reminds me of Weird Al's parody of Beat It because in the video the guitar player explodes from all the shredding 😄

[@illegal_space_alien]

That's where Weird Al got the idea for it. It was fairly well-known back then.

[@davidl570]

Reminds me of a fact about another loud guitar band: the Ramones played so loud while recording their debut that they destroyed several pieces of studio equipment.

[@jayorag]

If you speed up the dreamy aaaaahs in the middle of The Beatles' "A day in the life", you get the chorus of "Hush" by Joe South/Deep Purple

[@joedurantguitar1447]

'You Oughta Know' also featured then RHCP guitarist Dave Navarro. Apparently they just happened to be in the same studio so just spontaneously jammed it out.

[@illegal_space_alien]

Always wondered how then-unknown Alanis managed to get half of RHCP to session for her.

[@benjaminsmith2950]

I'm very interested in learning these 23 facts about classic tracks I never knew before

[@jacobevanoski1221]

Same

[@chancevicary1805]

Yes

[@joermnyc]

By putting “Her Majesty” on the end where it just cuts off made both sides of Abby Road end with a sudden cut. “She’s So Heavy” was supposed to fade out… eventually, but John was sitting there listening back with someone doing edits and said, “Nah, just cut it” so it was cut off at that spot (literally, old analog tape was sliced with a razor blade on a special block that made sure the cut was perfectly perpendicular (otherwise tape splices and cuts would be uneven and have weird sound artifacts.)

[@bobinscotland]

Great fact on ABBEY ROAD was the swapping of tracks on the CASSETTE version from the original vinyl. This was done to make the sides more equal in length, which avoids having a long gap at the end of the tape before turning over for the other side. Come Together and Here Comes The Sun were the tracks swapped with each other, and the running order on CD matches the vinyl.

[@adamnoakes2550]

A fact I enjoy is that "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple tells the real-life story of the band's experience while recording their album "Machine Head", on which the song appears.

[@rockerjim8045]

Took me all day but I finally found the Grand Hotel. It's been converted into Apartments but theyve kept the Grand in the title

[@AnniePA1960]

​@rockerjim8045 Isn't there a statue of somebody there? Freddie maybe?

[@rockerjim8045]

@@AnniePA1960 yep

[@patrickkparrker413]

​@@AnniePA1960 Freddie who ???

[@bobinscotland]

@@patrickkparrker413 Freddie Mercury, who recorded six albums there.

[@imdabanana1]

A fact I’ve never heard anyone talk about with the “day the music died” is that Waylon Jennings was supposed to be on the plane instead of the big bopper but the big bopper was sick so Waylon gave him his ticket and took the bus. Haunted Waylon the rest of his life. You can hear him mention it on his song “a long time ago”

[@daviddredge1178]

I've never heard the fact that I was born on 3rd Feb 1959!

[@amcken9316]

I thought it was well known.

[@davidl570]

That's actually a well-known fact.

[@treetopjones737]

You've never heard when you were born yet you're mentioning it. SMH

[@rhandhom1]

Ah, my favorite chord. A Demolished.

[@afwagner]

The You Can Call Me Al fact blew me away.

[@LageYouTube]

There wasn't even supposed to be a bass break. When it was being recorded, it was Bakithi Kumalo's birthday, and he asked if he could do a little bass lick, and somehow they ended up having it reversed the second time

[@CraftAero]

At a party in the 70's, a guest called Paul (Al) and his wife Peggy (Betty). They started calling each other by those names at home as a joke. "I will call you Betty, you can call me AL." I guess when you're Paul Simon you can pull inspiration from anywhere.

[@Rowe4900candymachine]

My favorite part of roxanne is the sitting on the piano part, it fits so well.

[@germanroses333]

I waited 30 years for the answer to what is the intro to ‘Wish you were here’. Thank you

[@mattiefee]

You know you are a living legend when the the studio speakers catch on fire during your solo.

[@bradleyfelsman413]

Chicago's "Feeling Stronger Every Day" in the background vocals just before the end chorus they sing "let's spend the night together" and then next bar is "jumping jack flash is a gas gas gas." Hard to hear in the original but there's a youtube of the isolated guitar/bass/drums/vocals and it's clear.

[@jasonremy1627]

Not sure it's about a single song, but rather my favorite weird musical fact is that Rick James (Superfreak) and Neil Young played in a band together in Toronto, The Mynah Birds, in the early 1960s.

[@qqw743]

That is indeed extremely weird.

[@artvallejos1460]

True. Neil actually signed with Motown . Also ,there are multiple songs on KZbin from Mynah Birds.

[@royalex21]

When My Way came up, I thought you were going to talk about how David Bowie wrote Life On Mars? as revenge

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Good point! I’ll put it in the sequel video!

[@duncanthompson957]

The point being that Bowie was asked to write an English language rewrite of the French song Comme d’Habitude, but Paul Anka got the gig and rewrote Comme d’Habitude as My Way. So Bowie nicked the chord structure.

[@ckallaher]

Another Beatles fun fact is that they are singing “Frere Jacques” underneath the second verse of Paperback Writer. Supposedly it’s in another Beatles song too but I don’t know which one.

[@tabascocat5102]

LOVED this! Right up my knowledge/oddity thirsting street. Question: David the samples you use are very VERY clear, what format are they from?

[@Symphonicrockfran]

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Eric Clapton and Graham Nash contributed background vocals in "All you Need is Love" Then Paul McCartney recorded background vocals for The Rolling Stones's "We Love You"

[@jcarty123]

Paul also played drums on Steve Miller's _My Dark Hour_, after a row with the other Beatles.

[@nabooster]

@@jcarty123 Mick Jagger sings background vocals on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" too.

[@LeonBerrange]

Great video. I didn't know a single one. The most startling was Quincy working with Sinatra. That really took me by surprise!

[@mortenriisberg]

Quincy Jones originates from Jazz, and often arranged big bands. There's a live album, Frank Sinatra at the Sands, with Count Basie, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.

[@summerof67]

Bobby Troup, who wrote the song Route 66, also played Dr. Early on the TV show Emergency. His wife, Julie London, played the nurse and was also a singer. Her most famous song was Cry Me a River.

[@lauriesuzanne8848]

Excellent vid. Great content, and mag reminder of many ol faves! Thanks!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@travelservices1200]

Regarding "Fly Me to the Moon", probably a lot of people here know that the original endings to the episodes of the legendary anime Neon Genesis Evangelion all ended with a different Japanese woman singing or (in at least one case, if memory serves) just an instrumental version of that song.

[@travelservices1200]

@Just Me Here I did not know all that. Thank you!

[@SarahDigsHockey]

I figured I wouldn't know most of the songs mentioned here because they were before my time. But being classics, I should have known better. Don't know how many times I caught myself saying "wow! while watching and learning about some of these songs. Thank you for putting them together and sharing them with us.

[@maxharrison257]

Hello Sarah 👋

[@jaketaf98]

I pride myself on Beatles knowledge but I really didn't know that last fact about the evening loop on A Day In The Life

[@andrewhawkins6754]

In Sweet Home Alabama, after the line "I hope Niel Young will remember" you can hear one of the other guys singing "Southern Man" in the background.

[@thechief00]

the cursing on Hey Jude is George, because John yelled "OH!" into his mic at 2:56 and George was startled by the loud noise in his headphones.

[@nolesy34]

He would have apologised profusely like: " so sorry chaps im aware that was rather rude of me" "Quite" "Shall we settle this with a cup of tea"? Next morning on the sun TENSIONS RISE IN BEATLES AFTER PROFANITY USED BY ONE MEMBER

[@Yupppi]

I guess it's funny that when Eddie recorded the solo, somehow the tape returned cut out of sync and Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro had to recreate the whole song based on the quiet bleed of headphones, because the tape had the original take of Michael's voice and Eddie's solo and they wanted to keep both. So Steve Lukather go to play on Jackson's record and ended up playing much more than rhythm guitar.

[@UnwrittenSpade]

First off I just discovered your channel and I’m simply blown away! Amazing! Secondly, the comment section for this video is not only all positive but also chuck full of some of the most interesting little factoids ever! Instantly earned my subscription and like!

[@peterjuff]

During the runout on Sgt Pepper one of them is clearly saying “never could be any other way.” It’s only clear once you know😉

[@udomeyer4820]

Thanks for this! I want more! That's great!

[@daddykool3290]

Did you know that Norman Greenbaum's “Spirit in the Sky” distinctive distorted guitar could never be duplicated any other time?

[@simp4makima81]

My Way by Sinatra in the Philippines is really popular because its easy to be sang. I rarely see occasional gatherings with karaokes that does not sing this song, this song is on repeat throughout the night. And yes, I've witnessed people fighting over who's gonna sing this song.

[@Martin-no7dc]

Very interesting and creative video! Would love to See more like this ❤

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you! Will do!

[@teemusid]

Paul's exclamation in Hey Jude is preceded by John saying "wrong chord" to George, who then exclaims "ah!" All three are audible if you're anticipating them.

[@willswalkingwest7267]

Oh my God, Kurt killed himself when he found out his song was about deodorant.

[@jimw6659]

Great idea for a video, David. I enjoyed that!

[@StarQueenEstrella]

RE: “Superstition”, the story goes that Stevie had promised the song to Jeff Beck, and Jeff even ended up recording it on Beck, Bogert & Appice. But when Berry Gordy, head of Tamla/Motown Records heard the song, he told Stevie that he had to make a record of it.

[@HenritheHorse]

They had both versions agreed, but Barry put it out earlier than Beck, because his version got delayd.

[@LeonFelixRusso]

Berry. Not Barry.

[@andrewguthrie2]

I'm going to use that Jeff Beck fact.

[@mastod0n1]

Loved all this and I'm hoping you make another video like this

[@awsomepossum210]

A followup please please. I only knew one fact from this list and I love these kind of videos...

[@chassmash8903]

...also the gigantic bluesy guitar solo on Let's Dance is played by Steve Ray Vaughan. Though being a fan SRV at that time I always thought Bowie was playing it. And I thought to myself "well Bowie was heavily influenced on this by Stevie..." who was to become a star at that time... I only found out a few years ago that he actually played it himself. Great co-work of two legendary musicians.....

[@lncarnold]

That was amazing! Thanks!

[@ala0284]

These are actually really good, I’m fairly knowledgable about pop songs like this but I only knew a few of these

[@cyjones8488]

Lovely piece David: a follow up please. Perhaps you could include the Carpenter's Goodbye to Love, which has not one but two interesting facts: How it was written, and how THAT lead solo came about.

[@davidl570]

Here's a trivia fact about that song: the guitar outro (by the late Tony Peluso) was totally improvised.

[@Tacko14]

I recently learned that at the end of Outside the Wall, where Waters starts saying a sentence that gets cut off, the second half of the sentence is actually right at the beginning of the record, before In the Flesh starts. Something like ‘isn’t this where we started?’ Which suggests a loop in time, history repeating itself. I never noticed in forty years, until someone pointed it out

[@allthatyoutouch3164]

It's "we came in" and at the end is "isn't this where" . I had it on 8 track it worked out well as "Isn't this where we came in".

[@mk-kj9lu]

Another fun fact：The fade-out part of Pink Floyd's song Wish You Were Here was recorded with Stéphane Grappelli, famous as Django Reinhardt's violinist, who happened to be in the studio next door. Originally described in the biography Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd.

[@racegts]

I would love confirmation that the horn blast in the sound sample of YES’ Owner of a Lonely Leart was taken from the Flintstones soundtrack. 🎶🎶🎶

[@laurentco]

Very cool! I thought I knew quite a bit of pop music trivia, but most of these were news to me.

[@Em4gdn1m]

A demolished

[@Em4gdn1m]

@@madisntit6547 lol ikr?

[@nielsschelbeck-pedersen8733]

4:54 I've always thought that it was played backwards but my music teacher didn't believe me. Thank you for myth busting it!

[@theturkeychild]

On REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" you can hear Micheal Stipe giggle and almost break down on the chorus but still manages to muscle his way through 'call me when you try to wake her up'

[@davidl570]

....................and he's stifling a laugh because he had a lot of trouble pronouncing "Seuss"---it took him several takes and he eventually just gave up and that's the version you hear (notice he still doesn't get it right on the final version).

[@edwardhoppe4294]

Quincy Jones originally called Pete Townsend to play on Beat It, but Townsend told him he's not really a solo guitarist, and told about this new kid, Eddie. Eddie came down and not only recorded it free of charge, but completely changed the arrangement, and MJ was ecstatic with what he heard.

[@jasonremy1627]

Eddie wasn't exactly a new kid at the time... Van Halen was already several albums in and quite big stars.

[@MCLemonyfresh]

“New kid”? Hardly

[@edwardhoppe4294]

@@MCLemonyfresh seriously?

[@MCLemonyfresh]

@@edwardhoppe4294 Beat It was released in 1982. By that point the band Van Halen had already put out Van Halen, Van Halen 2, Women and Children First, and Fair Warning, all of which had commercial success

[@edwardhoppe4294]

@@MCLemonyfresh Jesus Christ, I know that. Jones and Townsend were old timers by then. To them, he was "new".

[@darrenwells2277]

Really enjoyed this video.. lots of things to remember that might turn up in quizzes!

[@FreddieHg37]

4:42, that's pretty cool actually!

[@ltjgambrose]

At 8:44 I was certain you were going to circle back to David Bowie with this: In 1968, Bowie was commissioned to write English lyrics for the Claude François French song "Comme d'habitude". After his lyrics were rejected, songwriter Paul Anka rewrote it into "My Way", made famous by singer Frank Sinatra in 1969. Annoyed at the success of "My Way", Bowie used the song as a template and wrote "Life on Mars?" as a parody of Sinatra's recording.

[@cakemartyr5794]

The motif from David Gilmour's Rattle That Lock comes from the announcements on the French rail network. Gilmour himself got his phone out to record it when he was in a train station

[@mortenriisberg]

That's why we, a lot of people living in France, can't take this track serious 😄

[@cakemartyr5794]

@@mortenriisberg Yes, I can believe that. I recognized it when the record came out as I have travelled extensively through France myself.

[@lisas7741]

There is an accidental recording of a hand held football video game in The Clash’s Rock The Casbah.

[@rome8180]

No Radiohead facts? You definitely need to do a follow-up! BTW, I just want to say I love your channel and I've even gotten some non-musicians into it.

[@richcrawford6123]

13:14 this is referenced on the end of the Brand New track "Play Crack The Sky". Heard him sing "never to see any other way" thousands of times and never knew what it was calling back to!

[@andreamoore7035]

I actually 'played' that last one intentionally on my parents' record frequently as a child

[@maxharrison257]

Hello Andrea 👋👋

[@mk-kj9lu]

Another fun fact：There are mysterious notes in the intros of The Beatles' song Drive my car and The Rolling Stones' song Love in vain. Incidentally, Keith Richards has since played the same song using the normal score.

[@thatfisherr]

i think i only knew about 50-60% of the facts! great video as always David!

[@ismsshorts489]

Another fun fact about David Bowie's. Let's Dance. Legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn played guitar on the solo for that song. David saw Stevie at a show one day, and wanted him to play on the track.

[@ryanblease]

Brilliant video, love it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you 😊

[@mrakaman711]

Here's one that doesn't get mentioned very often. At the end of touch me by The Doors Jim Morrison sings "stronger than dirt", which apparently was a line in a commercial for a washing detergent at the time.

[@composer7325]

Excellent, thank you, David.

[@jchow5966]

K ALWAYS wondered about the “big boys dont cry” in the 10cc song!! Thank you!!!!

[@olivierroy5540]

Fun fact about My Way. It was originally a French song called « Comme D’habitude » by Claude François. It was about the signer realizing his relationship with his partner was falling apart. Paul Anka wrote the English lyrics when Frank Sinatra told him he was thinking of retiring from show-business. It was originally going to be his farewell song.

[@adamc1966]

That song is called "Sgt. Pepper's Inner Grove". And yes I knew about 10cc's secretary whispering on "I'm Not in Love" because its my favorite song of all time. 👍

[@craptonerecords6032]

Eddie's rocknroll fury caught speakers on fire. that's awesome!

[@donweatherwax9318]

I like how the "end credits" (Patreon names) at the end of your video goes bottom-to-top, like the end credits in _Repo Man_ and _Se7en,_ and not top-to-bottom, like usual.

[@melinabozorgmehr6503]

I absolutely love your channel! Keep it up and keep up your curiosity so I can hear about it 👍🏼😁

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

This was insightful and FUN!!! Thank you Good Sir

[@realstonecuttr9445]

The beeping you hear at the end of Fly Like an Eagle by the Steve Miller Band, was the reel to reel giving warning that the reel was running out of tape..

[@baorozzo]

In the song vertigo of U2 they start with a counter in spanish that count 1 2 3 14 because they didn’t know that it was wrong.

[@HarkenRoad]

Good list. I knew roughly half. 10cc bringing the secretary in to whisper "big boys don't cry" put me in mind of bassist Sara Lee (Gang of Four, and others; also played on B-52s "Love Shack" and is seen in their music video). She worked a day job as a secretary for Polydor, Robert Fripp became aware of her musicianship, and invited her in to his band, "The League of Gentlemen".

[@bobinscotland]

Another famous secretary would be Martha Reeves at Motown. She looked after The Marvelettes who had Motown's first Number One single with Please Mr. Postman, and that song had a famous drummer by the name of Marvin Gaye.

[@davidl570]

Sara Lee also played bass for the Indigo Girls for a while.

[@TheElectra5000]

This one isn't that unknown: The guitar solo at the end of Let's Dance is Stevie Ray Vaughn playing. But he got into a fight with David Bowie and that's the reason he didn't appear on the video.

[@CiscoWes]

10:27 "Sweet Home Alabama" where he says "turn it up" at the very beginning - from what I remember, his mic wasn't supposed to be potted up when he said that but they kept it in.

[@miffokarnevalen]

This might be widely known and somebody might already have mentioned it here, but I just found, by accident, out a while ago that Pink Floyd's The Wall is a loop and that the first track starts with completing the phrase started at the end of the last track. "Isn't his where..." "...we came in?"