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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...that the Beach Boys were supposed to be called The Pendletones after the Pendletone woolen shirts that were fashionable at the time?  And that the only Beach Boy who actually surfed was Dennis Wilson?
Pendletons in Southern California? A little too warm, I would think.

...That David Bowie's first wife, Angela, claims the Stones' song Angie resulted from her catching Bowie & Jagger in bed together nude?
The Beach Boys are pictured wearing Pendleton shirts on the cover of their 1st album, Surfin' Safari. The shirt was popular with surfers and surfer-wanna-be's at the time, which was a factor in them choosing that as their name.