Random Music Facts!!
Hey everyone!!
Today instead of looking at a specific instrument I am going to be sharing some random music facts with you lovely people!
1. The Curiosity rover played 'Happy Birthday' to itself on its one year anniversary of landing on Mars making 'Happy Birthday the first song to ever be played on a foreign planet.
2. In 2008, a man called Andrew Vactor was sentenced to listening to classical music for 20 hours instead of paying a $150 fine as a punishment for playing rap music too loudly. He left after 15 minutes and had to pay the $150 as a result.
3. Hans Zimmer, who has composed music for many famous movies like all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the Lion King and Interstellar, only received 2 weeks of music education when he was a child.
4. There is a song called 'As Slow as Possible' and it is 639 years long. It can take years for a single note to be played.
5. When Beethoven went deaf, he cut the legs off his piano and sat of the floor to feel the vibrations so that he could keep composing music.
6. One violin is made up of over 70 pieces of wood.
7. Queen holds the Guinness World record for the longest running fan-club.
8. Bono is the only person ever to be nominated for a Grammy, an Oscar a Golden Globe and a Nobel Peace Prize.
9. Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs but wrote a total of zero!
10. When Coldplay wrote and recorded Viva la Vida and Xylo Moloto, they were all under hypnosis.
I hope you found these facts interesting! Thanks for reading.
Today instead of looking at a specific instrument I am going to be sharing some random music facts with you lovely people!
1. The Curiosity rover played 'Happy Birthday' to itself on its one year anniversary of landing on Mars making 'Happy Birthday the first song to ever be played on a foreign planet.
2. In 2008, a man called Andrew Vactor was sentenced to listening to classical music for 20 hours instead of paying a $150 fine as a punishment for playing rap music too loudly. He left after 15 minutes and had to pay the $150 as a result.
3. Hans Zimmer, who has composed music for many famous movies like all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the Lion King and Interstellar, only received 2 weeks of music education when he was a child.
4. There is a song called 'As Slow as Possible' and it is 639 years long. It can take years for a single note to be played.
5. When Beethoven went deaf, he cut the legs off his piano and sat of the floor to feel the vibrations so that he could keep composing music.
6. One violin is made up of over 70 pieces of wood.
7. Queen holds the Guinness World record for the longest running fan-club.
8. Bono is the only person ever to be nominated for a Grammy, an Oscar a Golden Globe and a Nobel Peace Prize.
9. Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs but wrote a total of zero!
10. When Coldplay wrote and recorded Viva la Vida and Xylo Moloto, they were all under hypnosis.
I hope you found these facts interesting! Thanks for reading.
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