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(27,889 posts)16. Dan Hicks played drums for The Charlatans
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Post a true but little-known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- Part 12 [View all]
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In November, 1960, while playing in Hamburg with the Beatles, George Harrison was deported
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Elvis Presley was born in a two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi which his father built for $180.
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Tiny Tim once lived in a rental cottage behind Wavy Gravy's house in LA, and late one night he
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Allen Ginsberg attended Columbia on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association
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After being fired from The Beatles, Pete Best was in several unsuccessful bands, and eventually
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In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs were arrested as material witnesses in a murder
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Wavy Gravy's early career was managed by Lenny Bruce, who brought him to California from NY
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During pre-production of "Neighbors" (1981), John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd switched their roles
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Besides playing Andy on the TV show "Amos 'n' Andy" Spencer Williams was a pioneering
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Sharon Osbourne's Pomeranian was once saved from a coyote attack when Ozzy tackled the
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After 23 major labels rejected her debut album, Joan Jett released it on her own.
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Yogi Berra won more World Series championships as a player than any other player in MLB history
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Ginger Baker once attacked bass guitarist Jack Bruce with a knife during a concert.
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Cherie Currie has been doing chainsaw art since 2002, and opened her own gallery in 2005
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John Lithgow has won six Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards
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Waylon Jennings started playing guitar at age 8, and played on the radio at age 12.
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In 1972, painter Byron Randall converted a dilapidated chicken coop to become his home
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Billy Bob Thornton grew up in a house that had no electricity or running water
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Joey Ramone was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back, which was incompletely
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During the last 4 years of his life, Zero Mostel went on a starvation diet that reduced his weight
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Since his college days, Zero Mostel was a "Leftist" and his nightclub routine included political
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Willie Nelson was an all-around athlete in high school, playing halfback in football, guard in
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Keith Richards hated Truman Capote because he didn't like what Capote had written about the
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When he joined The Warlocks as bass player, Phil Lesh didn't know how to play bass guitar
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