Paul Carrack, the Poundland Phil Collins, was on the first The Smiths album.

Shane MacGowan once ate a Beach Boys record.



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Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman.

Real name Gary Inhuman.

It's only 10 miles from the centre of Cambridge to the border of Essex.

Therefore, the city of Cambridge should really be in Essex.

I suppose it is quite close. It feels like further away because it's such an annoying drive. You can either go up the 2-lane, traffic-clogged M11, or take the A1017 over the hills where you have a 30 limit every couple of miles, and the rest of the time you're stuck behind a tractor

The first time I made a journey North from Zarnichester, I went via the A1017, and it took me 2 hours just to get to the A14 at Cambridge. It's only 40 miles!

Kurt Vile of minor fame as the singer of the War on Drugs and an album with Courtney Barnett, isn't a joke name on Kurt Weill, he was born Kurt Samuel Vile

New episodes of Tales of the Unexpected ran on ITV until 1988 - I thought it was only on in the 70s!

Papa Was a Rolling Stone only uses one chord.

Coco the Clown really existed.

OK, it's not like I didn't know he'd died, but I didn't - perhaps due to my more nubile age at the time* - realise that he was only 57.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle


*I was 34.

Ergo: John Entwistle was only 13 years older than me.

Or even 23 years older than me.

Tom Oliver, who plays Lou Carpenter, is English.

I found this out thanks to spotting him in UFO and checking on Wikipedia to see if it really was him.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Tom Oliver, who plays Lou Carpenter, is English.

I found this out thanks to spotting him in UFO and checking on Wikipedia to see if it really was him.

I found that out years ago.

The actress/Mod-el from Elton John's Nikita video made her own single

The first single pressed by Apple was by Frank Sinatra.

Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin was originally a Russian song.