Below is a collection of random bits of music trivia collected from I Love Music. The Motorhead one is soooo rock-n-roll!
- Columbia Records signed The Byrds based on Miles Davis's recommendation.
- David Bowie owns the patent for popular game 'Connect 4'.
- The climactic feedback in Motorhead's "We Are The Road Crew" wasn't intentional - it was the result of Fast Eddie Clark passing out and falling too close to the amplifiers while recording (!)
- Arnold Schoenberg feared he would die during a year that was a multiple of 13. He so dreaded his sixty-fifth birthday that a friend asked composer and astrologist Dane Rudhyar to prepare Schoenberg's horoscope. Rudhyar did this and told Schoenberg that although the year was dangerous, it was not necessarily fatal. Schoenberg survived it. But in 1951, on his seventy-sixth birthday, the Viennese musician and astrologist Oscar Adler wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 plus 6 equals 13. This stunned and depressed the composer, for up to that point he had only been wary of multiples of 13 and never considered adding the digits of his age. He became obsessed with this idea and many friends report that he frequently said: "If I can only pull through this year I shall be safe." ... On Friday, July 13, of his seventy-sixth year, Arnold Schoenberg stayed in bed - sick, anxious and depressed. Shortly before midnight his wife leaned over and whispered, "You see, the day is almost over. All that worry was for nothing." He looked at her and died.
- More Schoenberg - he named his opera "Moses und Aron" because naming it "Moses und Aaron" would require it having 13 letters in the title.
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