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First job for: George Michael, was as a Shop assistant in the men’s department at British Home Stores

 

In 1972, Bill Wyman was banned from driving and fined £20 by Chelmsford Magistrates court after being caught speeding in his Mercedes on the A12.

 

The infamous band logo was designed by Freddie Mercury shortly before the official release of their debut album.
It illustrates the zodiac signs of all four members of the band – two lions for Leo (Deacon and Taylor), a crab for Cancer (May), and two fairies for Virgo (Mercury)

((The Phoenix stands for... Immortality ))

 

In 1977, two members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who were staying at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, were knocked unconscious after a scuffle broke out between the band and members of the metropolitan police boxing team.

 

The man who is on fire on the front cover of Pink Floyd’s album ‘Wish You Were Here’ is US stunt man Danny Rogers who also worked on TV shows Chips, The Waltons, Starsky & Hutch and A Star Is Born.

 

In 1978, whilst living at the Chelsea Hotel in New York Sid Vicious called the police to say that someone had stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
He was arrested and charged with murder and placed in the detox unit of a New York prison.

 

Elton John started his career in 1964, as a weekend pub pianist at the Northwood Hills Hotel - for £1 a night.

 

In 1955, British music fan Sidney Turner was fined three pounds and ten shillings by a London Court for ‘creating an abominable noise’ and threatening his neighbours when they complained about him playing ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ by Bill Haley at full volume.

 

In 1969, Mick Jagger was fined £200 plus 50 guineas costs at Marlborough Magistrates Court for illegal possession of cannabis.

 

John Lennon’s Austin Princess hearse driven by him in the 1973 documentary ‘Imagine’ had the personal license plate "EMAJN".

 

Junk food is as addictive as drugs.

 

In 1996, Bobby Brown was fined $1,000, sentenced to 2 years probation and ordered to attend anger management classes after assaulting a security guard.

 

First job for: Tom Jones. was as a Glove cutter

 

‘I Fought The Law’ a hit for The Clash was written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly’s Crickets.

 

3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

 

A blob of toothpaste is called a nurdle

 

There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.

 

Johnny Cash claims that the idea for the song ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, came from a story he told Carl Perkins about an airman who used to tell Cash not to step on his blue suede shoes.

 

Joel Waul of Lauderhill, Florida won a Guinness World Record for the largest rubber ball coming in at 8,200-pound

 

“Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends with “mt.”