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people love to find mistakes in tv shows and movie but what about music??I know lyricist can write about anything they want but some songs are suppose to historically accurate.
here's a few examples of mine
1.pride by u2--martin luther king was killed 6:01 pm not "early morning" as the song says-it pays to do some research on an important event like this.
2.chicagoans always complained about paper laces's the night chicago died. while there is an east side , most chicagoans consider lake michigan the east side, the song should have said the south side,there also was no shoot out the police had(about a hundred cops were dead) with capone because the cops were paid off by capone.
3.country roads by john denver- Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River are actually in Virginia, not West Virginia
4.hey hey my my-neil young-it was Sid Vicious who died, not Johnny Rotten.
5.the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald-gordon lightfoot-"fully loaded for Cleveland". In fact she was heading for Detroit-it was in all the papers there gordy.
Forgive me, but does Neil actually say the song that Johhny Rotten died? I thought he said "...this is the story of a Johnny Rotten."
you're right he doesnt literally say it, but the way the song is worded it create the impression thats who he is talking about."The king is gone but he's not forgotten
Is this the story of johnny rotten?"--its a stretch I know.
Black Country Women by Led Zeppelin was recorded in Mick Jagger's out door garden and there was conversation and the sound of an airplane in the back ground they left in for the album.
Little Michael Jackson, while recording, "I'll be there" sings 'Just look over your shoulders honey." and should have been look over your shoulder honey. The brothers got P.O'd and one said stop. Berry Gordy jumped on them and said, "I'm the only one to call a stop. 'but Berry, he's singing the lyrics wrong. Gordy said, I don't care if fact mistakes can be good.
The live recording of Bennie and the Jets never happened and in fact you can't find a studio version of the song without the live intro. This live intro was edited in after the album was complete and contains a partial loop of Jimi Hendrix's performance at Monteray.
Eric Clapton, during the Bob Dylan tribute concert, screws up the lyrics to My Back Pages and sings "I was so much younger then, I'm younger than that now" rather than "I was so muich older then, I'm younger than that now."
Eric Clapton, during the Bob Dylan tribute concert, screws up the lyrics to My Back Pages and sings "I was so much younger then, I'm younger than that now" rather than "I was so muich older then, I'm younger than that now."
HA HA HA, ol' Dylan can't remember entire sentences in his own music if you listen to recorded versions vs. concert bootlegs. Dylan changed a lot of words to his own lyrics as well, skipping entire stanzas.
Speaking of Dylan. When it came time to record Lay Lady Lay in the studio, one of the people didn't show up and Dylan grabbed the janitor of the studio to play the cowbell in this song. The janitor at the time was Kris Kristofferson. Maybe more trivia than mistake - but interesting story. In this video there are no pictures just the recorded song. Listen for the cowbell throughout the song. Kristofferson did it in one take and never played them before.
people love to find mistakes in tv shows and movie but what about music??I know lyricist can write about anything they want but some songs are suppose to historically accurate.
here's a few examples of mine
1.pride by u2--martin luther king was killed 6:01 pm not "early morning" as the song says-it pays to do some research on an important event like this.
One that has always struck me is from 'Life In A Northern Town'
"In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And The Beatles."
Neither was around in winter, 1963 (the Beatles didn't arrive in the US until Feb, 1964, and we know about JFK)
While I admit that it is the xenophobic American making the comment (Dream Academy was British, so they had the Beatles), the two examples seem to be opposites. JFK's killing and the 'world would freeze' seem to go together, but the Beatles would be the hope for the future, no?
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