37 Fascinating Facts About the Music Industry

37 Fascinating Facts About the Music Industry

What do you do when a critic calls your music “daft punky trash? What do the Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay, Devo and the Windows startup music all have in common? Which of Michael Jacksons songs took up so much mental real estate that he didnt realize his car was on fire while he was driving it? Which book was the band Coldplay named after? What in the world has the oldest Jonas been up to for the last few years? 

The answers to these questions, and so many more, below!

Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 It may seem like a relationship song, but it's actually about the band feeling suffocated by their record label who was making them write more songs. It paid off. CRACKED.COM

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David Lee Roth dabbled in emergency medicine CRACKED.COM During his 20-year hiatus from Van Halen, he mostly pursued a solo career. But he carved out 2 full years to serve as an EMT in New York City. Не reportedly went on over 200 emergency ambulance calls.

People

Closing Time by Semisonic D U 20A - PU Although the song seems to clearly be about leaving a bar, it's actually a metaphor for being born, in anticipation for frontman Dan Wilson's upcoming fatherhood. CRACKED.COM

NPR

Bruce Dickinson is my copilot IRON MAIDEN CRACKED.COM Dickinson has flown the band's jet while on tour on multiple occasions. Не even became a pilot (and marketing director!?) of an airline that, bewilderingly, no longer exists.

BBC

CRACKED.COM Dolly Parton's Jolene was a real woman. Parton kept teasing her husband about a red-headed bank teller who gave him a lot of attention. (Her name wasn't Jolene, though t that name came from a little girl Parton met while signing autographs.)

NPR

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