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1. Buddy Holly's band could have been bigger than The Beatles.
Die hard fans would know this, but there's no harm in imparting some knowledge to others, is there? The Beatles, who were known as the Quarrymen, Johnny and the Moondogs, and The Silver Beetles before actually becoming THE BEATLES, were massive fans of Buddy Holly and his music. They were particularly impressed by the fact that Holly could actually sing, and play equally well at the same time.
Holly's band was called 'The Crickets', not only a buggy little creature but also a sport hugely popular in England. John Lennon liked the idea of a double meaning in the name of the band. The only difference being in the spelling of the name. Instead of being Beetles, they made it B-e-a-tles, thus including the 'beat' of the music in their band name and making it a double meaning word. Holly was obviously unaware of the double meaning bit because cricket wasn't played in America.
But all this wouldn't have mattered because Buddy Holly and 'The Crickets' in only the two years that they performed, were becoming huge with the masses. So much so that according to a number of sources, The Crickets were, at one point, selling around 20,000 album copies a day!
The day music died.
On 3rd February 1959, in a tragic incident that came to be known as 'The day music died', Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. ?The Big Bopper? Richardson died in a plane crash. Buddy was just a 22-year-old at that time. Imagine, had the band not met with the tragedy, the biggest band in the world would have been 'The Crickets'.
Heavily influenced by The Crickets, The Beatles was officially formed in 1960.
A certain Bobby Vee, then aged 15, and a hastily-assembled band of schoolboys calling themselves 'The Shadows' volunteered for and were given the unenviable job of filling in for Holly after the air crash. Their performance there was a success, setting in motion a chain of events that led to Vee's career as a popular singer.
On January 31, 1959, a few nights before that fatal trip, a 17-year-old Bobby Zimmerman, who later came to be known as a certain Bob Dylan, saw Holly perform as part of the ?Winter Dance Party? tour. Dylan was a huge fan of Holly and his music.
2. The world wouldn't have experienced Led Zepplin had a star-studded band not broken up.
If there's any other band apart from The Beatles that you can argue as the greatest band of all times, it's Led Zepplin. No other band rocked the world as hard as Led Zep did. But it could have very well not gone the way it did. We wouldn't have been going to Zeppathons had a certain band called the Yardbirds not broken up.
The Yardbirds might not have been a band many had on their personal playlists, but it was responsible for producing three of the greatest guitarists of all time - Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and of course, Jimmy Page.
Led Zepplin was a superband with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and John Bonham. The name, funnily enough, was zeroed in on after Keith Moon (from The Who) was invited to drum for the band. He thought the band would go down like a lead balloon, meaning fail miserably. They decided to purposely misspell 'lead' because they thought the Americans would be 'stupid' enough to mispronounce it as 'Leed'.
3. Audioslave wouldn't have come to be had Chris Cornell not ditched seafood.
80s rock supremo Chris Cornell is still rocking it. His first band Soundgarden broke onto the scene back in 1984. Soundgarden, along with other legendary bands like Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, was one of the top most bands in the grunge music scene during the early 90s. But his successful music career would've been nowhere if he had gone like, 'You know what, I'm quite satisfied being a seafood wholesaler in Seattle. This is a good life.'
He was! But Chris did move on, well not immediately, and being a sous-chef in a restaurant called Ray's Boathouse was next on the cards. Cornell later admitted to being thrown into reality when he lost his close friend Andrew Wood to a heroin overdose in 1990. There was really no looking back for him from there on.
True to his rockstar tag, Cornell was once on his motorcycle when he got rear-ended by a truck and he was thrown 20-feet in the air. Carrying severe cuts and bruises, he still made it to the recording session he was supposed to attend that day. Then after Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine, remaining members were searching for another vocalist when Cornell's name came up and Audioslave was formed.
4. Motorhead wouldn't have been the phenomenon they were had Lemmy not been fired from his previous band.
British band Motorhead, popular in the 70s and 80s, definitely played its part in redefining the heavy metal scene. Vocalist Lemmy Kilmister spent five days in jail for the possession of cocaine at the Canadian border. Thanks to this, his rock band Hawkwind had to cancel some of their North America tour dates, subsequently leading to him being fired in 1975 for "doing the wrong drugs,"
Lemmy started Motorhead aiming to be "the dirtiest rock n' roll band in the world," Lemmy himself was quite the crazy. He used to collect Nazi memorabilia. He once famously said: "If Motörhead moved in next to you, your lawn would die."
While it might sound like a band coming out of an engineering college in India, motor-head in the United States actually stands for speed-freak, a slang for an amphetamine user. And oh boy, was Lemmy a user. In fact, rumor has it that when Lemmy asked a doctor for blood purification, the doctor said that his body was so adapted to speed that pure blood would kill him.
5. KISS co-founder Gene Simmon's mother was a Nazi concentration camp survivor.
Although I'm not a great fan of their music, what one cannot deny is that KISS are an amazing bunch of entertainers. With faces painted like uninvited clowns at a funeral, a KISS concert will definitely be memorable if nothing else. Since the band was formed, KISS has been never photographed without their makeup until 1983, when they took it off to promote Lick It Up.
Some rumours did circulate that KISS actually stands for "Knights in Satan's Service" but the band consistently kept denying it throughout. But none of this would have taken place had it not been for vocalist Gene Simmon's mother who was one of the few survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in World War II. It'd be interesting to know if Lemmy Kilmister ever got along with Simmons.
6. Duran Duran were named after a character in a Jane Fonda movie.
I'll be honest here - I don't know much about Duran Duran except for the fact that they made A. Lot. Of. Songs. I thought it was only me who thought that way before I checked out their discography. Duran Duran, since they were formed in 1978, have made *drumrolls* 14 studio albums, 4 live albums, 7 compilations albums, 6 EPs and 39 singles! But Duran Duran was not a band with a name so nice they named it twice. In fact, the band have acknowledged that they were named after a character in a Jane Fonda film! Barbarella was a 1968 science-fiction adventure. Let me rephrase that, it was an erotic science fiction adventure many of us missed. But not Duran Duran. Not Duran Duran.
7. We wouldn't have got the talent of Johnny Cash had it not been for the Cold War.
Apart from the unstoppable drug abuser that he was, one cannot deny the absolute legend of country and rock that Johnny Cash was. The Hall of Famer was a total nut job (in a good way, of course) and we might have a little clue why. Turns out Cash played a little part in the military. Not with a gun on the front, but as a part of the cryptographic intelligence unit. During the time of the Cold War, Cash would be the one to intercept the Soviet morse codes. And he was bloody good at it. He was so good at his job that he would be called to crack the hardest of codes. But he hated it. Completely despised it. So much so that when his time was done, he ran. As far as he could. He felt like he was in a prison because of the nature of the job. Not only could he not talk about his profession to anyone, but was also denied travelling off-base.
But maybe the signals and the codes trained his ear for tones and rhythms. Maybe we wouldn't have got the legend of Cash had it not been for the Cold War.
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