Heard Aerosmith's Love In An Elevator on the radio and remembered than in Ireland it was released as Shift in a Lift #popfacts
He provided additional percussion on Manics - Gold Against The Soul album #popfacts
37 days to go! The first notes were laid down in 2024, just before the recording session for Lunch with the Lucky Aces. Not that you can tell. Or that it means anything. It’s just technically true.
Wolken bügeln den Gehweg!
#Countdown #LuckyAces #BEhindtheMagic #MusicSecrets #Popfacts
Debbie Harry couldn’t stop singing Atomicooper after she saw him die on telly. #popfacts
Billie Eilish’s lyric “I could eat that girl for lunch” is about vore #popfacts
Did you know: that 90s student comedy club regular Woody Bop Muddy was in the band And The Native Hipsters, of Ooh look there goes Concorde fame #popfacts
I did! #popfacts
What?! I didn’t know Knopfler wrote it. That’s the greatest pop picking fact I’ve heard all year. I need to sit down. #facts #popfacts
That is a *superb* popicking fact. #popfacts #facts #sheerfacts
What?! I didn’t know Andy Taylor from Duran Duran joined Reef for their 2022 album ‘Shoot me your Ace’ - that’s an *intensely* good pop picking fact, pop pickers. #facts #rockfacts #popfacts
In their excellent book “really saying something”, Sara and Keren Banana call Dave “Stewpot” Stewart off of the Eurythmics “Bananarama’s Yoko”. #totp #popfacts
It’s a little known fact that the Bruce Springsteen song “Tougher than the rest” is about frying the first in a batch of pancakes. #ShroveTuesday #PopFacts
Alvin Stardust was the father of DnB producer Adam F, pop pickers. #popfacts #poppickers #facts
Eddie Howe’s favourite band #popfacts
OMD, in the dark
ELO, in the light.
POP FACT: If Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the Electric Light Orchestra ever met, they would cancel each other out and leave a black hole that would suck in all of popular music. #POPFACTS
Barbara Dickson’s follow up single to “Caravan”, called “Trailer Tent” failed to chart #totp #POPFACTS
Also failing to chart was The Buggles follow-up “‘Actually I feel a lot better, thanks’ said the radio star” #totp #POPFACTS
Maria Whittaker being married to the Rebel MC is one of my favourite pop facts. #popfacts
You make soup by arm-wrestling a member of The Kinks. #popfacts
“Brushing Toast Crumbs Off My Tits” was, of course, the work-in-progress title of Squeeze’s
"Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)". #PopFacts