Did you know....?


Little known facts about music, musicians, and their work.

Did you know that Nora Jones was Ravi Shankar's daughter?
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Marcie Campbell (wife of Mike of Tom Petty and Heart Breakers) runs a charity for dogs and they have many rescue dogs on their Woodland Hills property and even Chinese chickens and pot belly pigs! Really nice people.
Mike Balzary and Keith Barry founded Silverlake Conservatory of Music (non-profit school). They raise money for the school regularly.
Stewart Copeland had 12 horses and once played Polo against Prince Charles and won.
Stewart Copeland's brother was nicknamed Leroy Coolbreeze when he served in Vietnam.
Russell Crowe is a musician and good buddies with Alan Doyle of Canadian band Great Big Sea. They often play together with Russel joining the band. As a return favor Russel had Alan Doyle act in his movie Robin Hood.
@tomcarr   

Good one! 

Did you know they both used ATC speakers for monitoring....
Stewart Copeland played polo against Prince Charles.

The funny disharmonious chord at the beginning of Roxanne was an accident when Sting leaned against the piano - they kept the take!

Phil Collins discovered the famous gated drum sound quite by accident.