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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