In 1975, Joe Strummer was paid £120 to marry Pamela Moolman, a South African citizen, so she could obtain British citizenship. He bought his signature Fender Telecaster, later painted black, with the money and joined The Clash.
A universal recursion in the principle of identity would make it possible to model everything using the same multifractal equation, meaning a chip that could do anything you want and be programmed anyway you prefer and could make sense out of any input you give it, would require roughly 5,000 transistors.
In 1983, biologist Ferdinando Boero named a Californian jellyfish Phialella zappai, after Frank Zappa, noting that he had ‘pleasure in naming this species after the modern music composer’
And in 1994, Belgian biologists named a Cameroonese spider, Pachygnatha zappa because ’the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species strikingly resembles the artist’s legendary moustache’
In 1967 the BBC banned The Beatles ‘I Am The Walrus’ from any plays on radio and TV convinced the song contained a drug reference somewhere in the lyric. N
In 2010, the re-released Exile On Main St. entered the UK charts at No.1, almost 38 years to the week after it first occupied that position.
The Rolling Stones are the first act to ever have a studio album return to No.1 after it was first released.
During 2000 their were 42 different UK No.1 hits. The highest number ever in the history of the chart.
Fiona Apple holds the record for the longest album title: - "When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ’Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, The You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won’t Matter, ’Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right."