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Courtney Love was sent to a reform school after being caught stealing a Kiss T-shirt from a Woolworth’s store.

 

First job for: Cher, was as a Receptionist in a department store

 

When The Inspiral Carpets headlined Reading Festival in 1990, they brought on a pantomime cow.
The band’s guitar roadie Noel Gallagher was half that cow, his first headline appearance.

 

Paul McCartney's dad was also a musician, leader of Jim Mac's Jazz Band

 

First job for: Bob Geldof, was as a Music journalist

 

The Northern Spotted Owl, Stirix Occendentalis Caurina is one of 3 Spotted Owl species.

 

In 1987, Jesus & Mary Chain singer Jim Reid was arrested in Canada after being accused of assaulting members of the audience with his microphone stand, he was released on $2,000 bail

 

Barry White was jailed for three months after being found guilty of stealing tyres from a car dealer.

 

First job for: Whitney Houston, was as a Backing Singer with Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls

 

Ray Charles was married twice and fathered twelve children by seven different women.

 

Scientists use their own version of Vantablack for things like telescopes, but it is roughly a million times darker.

 

He may have been blind, but was gifted with a silver tongue and nibble fingers.

 

In 1988, James Brown was arrested after being involved in a car chase.
It was the singers fifth arrest in ten months.
He was charged with resisting arrest and possession of illegal weapons.

 

in 2003 I drove north up the M1 motorway in van in rush hour surrounded by other vehicles ,I placed a jacket over my lap ,took out my dick and had a wank wilst driving in the middle lane

 

In the last decade the Chinese managed to complete their first national highway system, only to cause the largest traffic jamb on record which, according to who you ask, lasted anywhere from nine days to over a year.

 

John Lennon learned his first chords on a banjo!

 

The Killers took their name from the New Order video ‘Crystal’.

 

Thing's head detaching from the body to save itself took many months of testing before Bottin was satisfied enough to film it. The scene involved a fire effect, but the crew were unaware that fumes from the rubber foam chemicals inside the puppet were flammable. The fire ignited the fumes, creating a large fireball that engulfed the puppet. It suffered only minimal damage after the fire had been put out, and the crew successfully filmed the scene. The Thing (1982 film) - Wikipedia

 

One of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz hanged himself on the set

 

Bing Crosby was a staunch Catholic and at first refused to record White Christmas because he felt it tended to commercialise Christmas. He finally agreed taking eighteen minutes to make the recording, and then the "throw-away" song became an all-time hit with Crosby’s version selling over 40 million copies.