What Beatles song has been #1 3 times, but not by the Beatles?

Fun Fact #172
"With A Little Help From My Friend" was never released as a single by the Fab Four but still managed to reach number one in the UK three times. Firstly for Joe Cocker in 1968, then by Wet Wet Wet in 1988. Finally hitting the top spot for Sam and Mark in 2004. It has also been covered over 50 times including Bon Jovi and Barbra Streisand.









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Ozzy Snorts Fire Ants to show off

Fun Fact #109: Ozzy Snorts Fire Ants
Everyone knows the story about Ozzy biting a head off a bat, onstage in 1982 (he thought it was a fake one). Less well known is the time he snorted a line of fire ants in a bid to impress Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx.




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The song "Spirit In The Sky" has been #1 in 3 different decades

Fun Fact #14
The song ‘Spirit In The Sky’ has been taken to number one in the UK on three separate occasions by three different artists. Norman Greenbaun, who wrote the song, released the original in 1970, followed by Doctor and the Medics version in 1986. Gareth Gates took the song to the top spot in 2003.







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Fun Fact #39: Blond Elvis

Until his late teens, Elvis was blond!

I don't think he suited being blond.

What do you think, would Elvis have rock it with golden locks to match his gold records?

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Fun Fact #75: Kiss Comic In Blood

1977 Marvel Kiss Comic Book Cover. (Notice at the bottom of page saying "Printed in real Kiss blood"

In 1977 Marvel Comics and Kiss decided to do a series of comics called "Super Special Kiss". To ensure that the comic would sell well, Marvel and Kiss came up with a great marketing campaign. The comic would be printed in real Kiss blood. On February 21st, 1977 the band's blood was collected at the Nassau Coliseum and delivered to Borden Ink Plant in Depew, New York. Kiss made a special appearance at the plant and mixed their blood into the red ink.

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Fun Fact #108: Don't borrow Nick Cave's pen

Nick Cave was once spotted on a London tube train writing a letter using the blood in a hypodermic syringe he'd just ripped from his arm. Has the man never heard of a biro?




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Fun Fact #31: Special Agent Elvis

Elvis's Special Agent Badge

After hand delivering a letter to the northwest gate of the White House to president Richard Nixon on the morning of December 21, 1970 a meeting between the president and the King of Rock & Roll was arranged for 12:30 pm that day. The purpose of the letter and the meeting was Elvis' desire to become an agent of some kind for the Drug Enforcement Agency to aid in the fight against illegal drugs (ironic, given that Elvis was heavily medicated at the time).

Elvis met with the president in the Oval Office of the White House, where he presented the president with a plated and engraved World War II-era Colt 45. In the meeting Elvis talked about his wish to help in stopping the promotion of anti-American spirit (specifically mentioning the Beatles) and drug use. Later that afternoon Presley received his badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs making him an honorary special agent.

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Fun Fact #5: Lyrics in the back cover

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the first British rock album to have the lyrics for every song printed on the back cover

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Fun Fact #52: Where is Madonna's star?

Madonna does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was selected for the honour in 1990 but she showed no interest and the invitation has now expired. Walk of Fame spokeswoman Ana Martinez-Holler states that, in order to receive a star, Madonna would have to be "resubmitted for a nomination," adding, "since she is not interested, I highly doubt that she will give a nominator the permission to do so."

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Fun Fact #192: Everyone starts somewhere even Madonna

Madonna worked in a New York City Dunkin' Donuts while she was struggling to make it as a dancer in the Big Apple. She was reportedly fired after squirting jam in a customer's face.

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Fun Fact #94: Michael Jackson Zoo

Bubbles the chimp and Ben the rat are two of Jackson's most famous pets, but he also befriended a ram called Mr Tibbs, a python called Crusher and Louie the llama.

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Fun Fact #59: Madonna and orange

Madonna hates the colour orange.

What has orange ever done to her?

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Fun Fact #151: Pete Doherty's bodily fluid art

Pete Doherty painted in his own blood! A selection of these gruesome artworks went on sale in 2006 via a London art gallery. They were daubed using a combination of Doherty’s own blood and that of his former James Mullord, who said: "He was very careful, he used a new needle.

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Fun Fact #97: Michael Jackson

In 1984, a U.S. library accused Jackson of owing it over $1 million in overdue book fines. Officials said they would scrap the fines if he returned the books autographed.

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Fun Fact #1: Hey Jude f*** up

At 2:58 in Hey Jude Paul McCartney can be faintly heard saying "Hit the wrong chord!", followed by, "Oh, fucking hell!" after he made a mistake during the recording of the song



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Fun Fact #4: Ringo beheaded

In 2008 a topiary tribute to The Beatles was unveiled on a traffic island in Liverpool. Unfortunately someone chopped Ringo’s head off after he admitted he misses nothing about his hometown. 

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Fun Fact #238: Elvis perfoms "Old Shep"

Elvis’s first public performance was at the Mississippi-Alabama competition Fair and Dairy Show. The young Elvis entered the singing dressed as a cowboy, and had to stand on a chair to reach the microphone. His performance of “Old Shep” by Red Foley earned him second prize.

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Fun Fact #88: Madonna's support act

The Beastie Boys supported Madonna on her very first solo tour.

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Fun Fact #110: Pete Townshend impaled

Imagine playing guitar with such ferocity you impale your own hand on your guitar. Astonishingly, that’s exactly what happened to The Who’s Pete Townshend during a gig in 1990. He pierced his hand on the axe’s whammy bar while performing his trademark windmill move. The guitarist recalls: “I looked down and thought, ‘Shit!’” Which is understandable in the circumstances.

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Fun Fact #26: Songfellows rejected Elvis

In 1954, when Elvis was cutting some early records at Sun Studios, he auditioned for an amateur gospel quartet called the Songfellows. They turned him down...

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