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In the 63 year existence of the UK album chart, only 12 have spent a total of 300 or more weeks on the listing. Here is the list.

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Here is a list of 25 original band names before they decided to change it to something more appealing.

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With Ed Sheeran’s recent chart topper, Take Me Back To London doing so on its second attempt, it got me wondering how many other songs initially entered the chart, dropped out and then went to number one on their return. Well there are 22 of them, here’s the list.

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Malcolm Young, AC/DC guitarist, worked in a bra factory as a sewing-machine mechanic.

Ed Sheeran’s 2019 tour generated £630m from 8.9 million tickets to surpass U2’s 2009-11 360° tour as the highest-grossing and most well-attended of all-time.

Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing was originally written for, but turned down by, Celine Dion.

Beck’s 2012 album, Song Reader, was released only in sheet music form and was 108 pages long. There was no physical audio format, he did it for others to interpret his music.

Five years before Black Lace plagued the world with Agadoo, they represented the UK at Eurovision with Mary Ann and came 7th.

Nick Mason, drummer with Pink Floyd, is the only member of the group to appear on every Pink Floyd album.

Paul McCartney once revealed that Got to Get you Into My Life was about drugs with the ‘you’ being marijuana.

The Doors were the first band ever to advertise a new album on a billboard.

In America in the 1950s jukeboxes were banned within hearing distances of a church. 

Prince played guitar on Madonna’s Like a Prayer which was verified by the producer and songwriter Patrick Leonard, but Madonna decided not to use it in the end.

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The Irish singles chart was first published on 1st Ocotber 1962 and since then only 12 songs have spent 10 or more weeks at the top, here is the list.

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Kurt Cobain once worked as a lifeguard at a YMCA.

In 1955 Johnny Mathis was a high jumper and was then ranked 85th in the world.

The record for the longest note held by a female singer on a UK hit single is Donna Summer on here duet hit with Barbra Streisand –No More Tears (Enough Is Enough). She holds the note for 16.7 seconds.

Burt Bacharach used to own a pet duck named Quack Quackerach

Elaine Paige one made an appearance in the 70s soap Crossroads as well as appearing in the 1968 film Oliver.

Rick Nelson was killed in a plane crash in 1985, that plane was originally owned by Jerry Lee Lewis who sold it after he had a premonition that it would crash on its next journey.

Before becoming Elvis Presley’s agent, Colonel Tom Parker ran a troupe of dancing chickens

The Eagles guitarist Don Felder used to give guitar lessons to Tom Petty.

At a party in Los Angeles, Groucho Marx, in jest, once jokingly pointed his index fingers at Elton John, as if holding a pair of pistols. Elton put his hands up and said, “Don’t shoot me, I’m only the piano player,” which inspired the title of his 1973 album.

The original Village People line-up were recruited from an advert that read Macho types wanted: must have moustache.

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