Play That Funky Music I

   At age forty-seven, The Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with thirteen-year-old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's thirty- year-old son, Stephen, married Mandy's mother, age forty-six. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandfather.
   The music hall entertainer Nosmo King derived his stage name from a NO SMOKING sign.
   Jonathan Houseman Davis, lead singer of Korn, was born a Presbyterian but converted to Catholicism because his mother wanted to marry his stepfather in a Catholic church.
   Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on all the band's albums.
   The naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind is named Spencer Eldon.
   The 1980s song "Rosanna" was written about Rosanna Arquette.
   The B-52s were named after a 1950s hairdo.
   The band Duran Duran got their name from a character in the 1968 movie Barbarella.
   The Beach Boys formed in 1961.
   The bestselling Christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas."
   The first CD pressed in the United States was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
   The Grateful Dead were once called The Mugwumps.
   The only member of the band ZZ Top to not have a beard has the last name Beard.
   There is a band named "A Life-Threatening Buttocks Condition."
   The song with the longest title is " I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-O-Beat-O Flat-On-My- Seat-O, Hirohito Blues," written by Hoagy Carmichael. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke.
   Tommy James got the inspiration to write his number-one hit "Mony Mony" while he was in a New York hotel looking at the Mutual of New York buildings neon sign flashing repeatedly: M-O-N-Y.
   ABBA got its name by taking the first letter from each of the band members' names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anni-frid).
   The opera singer Enrico Caruso practiced in the bath, while accompanied by a pianist in a nearby room.
   Enrico Caruso and Roy Orbison were the only tenors in the twentieth century capable of hitting the note E over high C.