29 Bizarre True Stories Behind the Most Popular Music Ever

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Music nowadays is pretty calculated. Music producers have it down to science, knowing we'll listen to whatever "crap" they're tossing at us. But back in the day? Not so much.

A lot of the stuff we consider "classic" really only reached our ears mostly due to plain dumb happenstance. With the help of Phish Head Auntieme, here are the craziest coincidences that made musical history.

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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND TOOK ITS NAME FROM THE TITLE OF AN SEM BOOK FOUND ON THE SIDEWALK. THE VELVET UNOERGROUND MCRLAL LTO The Velvet Underground, by

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PUDDLE OF MuDd's REHEARSAL SPACE WAS TURNED INTO A LITERAL PUDDLE OF MUD. The band wound up naming itself after the flood that soaked the entire first

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MaRK KNOPFLER THRNED THE RANTINGS OF A DISGRHNTLED SALESMAN INTO A HUGE HIT. Knopfler took the lyrics for Money for Nothing directly from the rants of

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LImp Bizkit IS NAMED AFTER A MASTURBATION GAME. Circle Jerks is named after the same game. htothwwurbandidtlonarycomdehne.chorlormalmotbiscut

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THE WORKING TITLE FOR BILLY JoeL's SAPPY BALLAD HONESTY WAS Soon. IT'S SUCH A LONELY WORD... JoeI's drummer Liberty DeVito used to write inappropria

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THE BEASTIE Boys' FIGHT FOR Your RIGHT WAS A JOKE. They wrote It as a gag song, making fun of annoying rock anthems. When the song was published, th

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THE Guess WHO WROTE AmeRICAN WOman ON THE SPOT AT A DIVE BAR. Guitarist Randy Bachman broke a guitar string during their set, and after he'd restrun

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