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In '66 Keith Richards wrote the Stones' hit "Ruby Tuesday" about former girlfriend Linda Keith after she left Richards for Jimi Hendrix.
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In '78 the band Detective appeared on the show WKRP in Cincinnati as the fictional rock group Scum of the Earth.

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Inspired by seeing Jimi Hendrix perform at London's Saville Theater, Jack Bruce composes the riff for Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love.

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Kiss & their management company bought over 190 acres in ’79 to build a Kiss amusement park but the park was never built.

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In 1958 Phil Spector was inspired by the inscription on his father’s tombstone to write his first hit, “To Know Him Is To Love Him.”

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Don Henley, Glen Frey, Randy Meisner & Bernie Leadon were all members of Linda Ronstadt's backup band before forming the Eagles in 1971.

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Mumford & Sons didn't win a Grammy in 2010 but sales for their song, “The Cave” went up 205% following their performance @ the awards show.

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In the movie SAY ANYTHING, the iconic boombox scene was orig. shot w/ John Cusack's Fishbone mix tape not Peter Gabriel's “In Your Eyes."

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Nanker Phelge was the alias used by the Stones btwn ‘63 – ‘65 when the entire band would share royalties for group compositions.

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With 114 top 40 hits, Elvis Presley had almost twice as many as anyone else in the rock era. Elton John is second with 59.

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Including both Singles & Albums, Johnny Cash released music every year between his debut in 1957 and 1989.

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Randy Rhoads mother, Delores, has owned and operated the still open Musonia School of Music in North Hollywood, California since 1949.