Music Trivia

14 years on top Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was on the Billboard 200 charts for a whopping 742 weeks.

Stamped by a singer Bryan Adams took a picture of The Queen of England at a 2002 Golden Jubilee function in England that was used on a Canadian stamp.

Lift karke dekho The title song of ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ (1959) is directly lifted from ‘Sugartime’, a song sung by The McGuire Sisters.

Sunidhi Chauhan In Feb 2007, as part of marketing campaign and launch of Windows Vista in India, Microsoft hired Sunidhi Chauhan to sing the Windows Vista Song titled 'Wow is Now'.

Saroj Khan Saroj Khan was only 13, a schoolgirl, when she got married to master B Sohanlal. He was 43 then!

Mohit Chauhan Mohit Chauhan turned famous with the song ‘Dooba Dooba’ from Silk Route's debut album Boondein.

Kunal Ganjawala Kunal Ganjawala is Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s cousin. Kunal has sung four hit songs in Sanjay’s Saawariya.

Farhan Akhtar Farhan Akhtar directed the music video for the 1998 hit song 'Breathless' from the debut album of Shankar Mahadevan, which made Shankar famous.

Asha Bhosle Asha Bhosle became the first Indian singer to be nominated for the Grammy Award.

Lage Raho, lift karo! ‘Pal Pal’, from the 2006 hit Lage Raho Munnabhai, is a rehash of an old English song ‘Theme for a Dream’, sung by Cliff Richards.

A taxing affair At one point in the 60s, the Beatles were paying in excess of 100% tax; effectively they were paying to work.

You ain’t nothing but a dinosaur The dinosaur, Cryolophosaurus, was at one point informally known as the Elvisaurus, due to the resemblance to Elvis Presley's pompadour haircut in the 1950s.

Saying something stupid like I love rock ‘n roll Frank Sinatra once called Rock and Roll "The most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear."

A French kiss for sure Gene Simmons of the band Kiss has a tongue that is seven inches long, two inches longer than most men.

Burnt in the USA The first CD pressed in the United States for commercial release was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

Shiney for Speedey Pakistani speedster Shoaib Akhtar was Mahesh Bhatt’s first choice for the title role in Gangster which eventually went to Shiney Ahuja after Shoaib turned it down.

I’ve heard that before! More than 2,500 cover versions of The Beatles' "Yesterday" exist, making it the most recorded song in history.

Sweet Nicotine of Mine Axl Rose (Guns 'n' Roses) used to earn $8 an hour for smoking cigarettes, for a science experiment at UCLA.

Chalte raho In his youth, actor Dharmendra was such a big fan of actress Suraiya that he walked miles to watch her film Dillagi, over 40 times.

Win-win-win-win-win Kumar Sanu has won Filmfare award for best male playback singer for 5 years consecutively