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Musical Madness

Ever wondered what the weirdest and stupidest things to be done in the name of music have been? Well in this article I will attempt to seek out the oddest and most crazy musical facts so that you can crush your friends with useless musical trivia.

• 8 names John Lennon used to check into a hotel:

1. Dr. Winston O’Boogie
2. Long John
3. Dwarf McDougall
4. Musketeer Gripweed
5. Rev Fred Ghurkin
6. Dr. Dream
7. Kaptain Kundalini
8. Johnny Rhythm Honorary John St John Johnson.

• The smallest guitar in the world is smaller than a red blood cell and has strings that can be strummed. It was made using nanotechnology.
• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. Well any music with a big pounding beat and fast tempo.
• Elvis once said, I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to.
• A Mexican musician, Ramon Barrero, famous for playing the world’s smallest harmonica, inhaled the harmonica and choked to death.
• Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
• Pop was once banned in India. The song “Tirchi Topiwale” became so popular that the police were instructed to fine 50 rupees to anyone caught singing it.
• The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.
• Monaco’s national orchestra is bigger than its army.
• Elvis Presley once entered an Elvis look-a-like contest in a US burger bar and only came 3rd!!
• The lead female singer in an opera is called the prima donna.

Well there you go, fascinating facts that will probably never actually come up in a conversation.