During his Purple Rain Tour Prince included a cobbler to install invisible lifts in all his footwear .

wrote 'Summer Nights' for the movie 'Grease' but as he was under contract, his involvement could not be revealed. The 'weller, weller, weller, oh' refrain was a tip of the hat

"Portsmouth dentist Lenny Law is the most in-demand male escort in the UK. He has a waiting-list of 'A' list female celebrities all begging for his services and happy to pay his £25,000 per night fee, their frustration being that repeat bookings from multiply satisfied prior clients take priority."

Patently untrue, as Dave asks. I only charge £12,000 and anyone can book six weeks ahead. Bring your mate and spread the cost.

... it was getting towards the end of the sessions in January 1973 when Pink Floyd realised they needed a "disturbed Irishman" to mumble those celebrated closing, spoken words and called round to the BBC to see if TV star Dave Allen would come and "play the character" ...

he did and the rest is history...

...is married to Kraftwerk's Ralf Hutter.

... are cousins

was an original member of The Pet Shop Boys, but was sacked by Neil Tennant because he wouldn't put them on the cover of Smash Hits until they had a record out. Ellen played congas and sax, which Chris Lowe later described as 'too jazzy.'

Depeche Mode is French for 'weedy Essex synth-pop'.

Haircut 100 met when they were all trainee barbers on the YTS scheme.
Culture Club secretly advised the Thatcher government on a range of foreign policy issues in the 80s. Boy George was also secretly a member of the SAS and helped storm the Iranian Embassy.

are just female dogs.

Read this on here a while ago and am really sorry but don't recall who posted it.
I think it was a kind of 'what you thought as a child' type thread.

It absolutely cracked me up and time hasn't diminished just how funny I find it.

My GLW has now stopped asking what I'm laughing at when I see next doors cat.

invented Twitter

once failed an audition to be the drummer with The Horrors

was in the first line up of The Stylistics

was a backing singer in the band Dawn Chorus & The Blue Tits, on their cover version of Teenage Kicks, alongside Carol Vorderman & Liz Kershaw.

in High Rise flats are sized to prevent a bed being situated with the headboard against the outside wall.

This is to prevent the building collapsing from the combined headboard banging when couples return from the pub at weekends.

EU Council Directive 2006/10 EEC - Safe Construction Regarding Exterior Walls (SCREW)

favourite band is the Icicle Works

... invented the paper clip.

David Walliams favourite band is "The Bluetones" - true.

..did all the guitars on The Rubettes records.
Richard Thompson wrote "The Night Chicago Died"

auditioned (unsuccessfully) to be in a revival of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Cats.

Michael Jackson was buried with a matching set of sequined gloves.

Mariah Carey's husband must ask her permission to get into bed with her.

Alister Campbell owns one of Lemmy's bass guitars.

Oh, this is fun.

Sarah Palin banned staff members from viewing any of the Toy Story films as she believed they were 'anti-family'.

Liam Gallagher belived that Spinal Tap were not fictional. Er...

is Nicholas Lyndhurst's sister.

David Bowie is the biggest individual shareholder in Kraft food products.

... designed the first foot operated bass drum pedal in 1934 and sold his design to Ludwig Drums & Percussion Inc. of Chicago, who manufactured & sold it as the "Speed King" model. It is still in production today.

... former Ugandan dictator, invented talcum powder.

would accompany folklorist Alan Lomax on his travels.

...invented Tipp-Ex. Oh bugger - that one's true.

...Chris Cornell, Beth Orton and Bryan Molko have all been thrown out of The Magic Circle for revealing secrets.

..built my hotrod.

is six foot two inches tall.

...selected the founding members of Take That based on their resemblance to figures from the Bayeux Tapestry.

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for years tried to convince the Brothers Gibb that he was another Gibb who had been adopted at birth and thereby, claimed his right to be a fully fledged member of the SNFH.

was formed on a Barclays Bank staff cycling holiday in Rutland when Dave Brock fell off of his bike (known as the Silver Machine) and the other (soon to be) members rushed to help him. Lemmy gets a particular mention as it was he who had the puncture repair kit.

and novelist Philip Roth are second cousins.

Philip wrote the lyrics for Davd's 'Yankee Rose'

Mike Rutherford has joined The Grumbleweeds, replacing similarly tall and bearded original 'Weed Robin Colvill who has retired to breed terrapins.

played all the guitars on Led Zeppelin 4.

Diesel is simply unleaded petrol plus Demerera sugar

...were flatmates in Glasgow.

I've tried this.

I made up the 'fact' that George Eliot invented the Marmalade Brompton cake, which became the most popular cake in England for a while.

I planted it on Wikipedia and it stayed there for a very long time. Long enough for other sites to pick it up.

This information is now out there in www-land, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this 'fact' will eventually be accepted as truth.

is a devotee of northern working mens club comic Norman Collier and will often interrupt his own live act in a homage, doing the broken mic 'off-on' again routine.

I Just Called to Say I Love You to test out his theory that people would buy the most mawkish piece of crap he could come up with so long as it had his name on the sleeve.

Retained the name of her first husband, Simple Minds guitarist Charlie Burchill, for professional reasons. Her maiden name was 'Andrews'. The marriage did not last long and was legally dissolved in 1977 shortly before she joined the staff of the NME. The Simple Minds song "(Don't You) Forget About Me", from the soundtrack to the film 'The Breakfast Club', is claimed to be about Burchill, and Ally Sheedy's character Allison Reynolds was based by Director John Hughes on the guitarist's account of their meeting during detention at a comprehensive school in Bristol.

The Lady in Red after becoming obsessed with the prom scene in Carrie.

is heiress to the Waddingtons games fortune

...was the bassist in Slick. And best man at Midge Ure's wedding.

Jeff Lynne, Andy Partridge, Lol Creme and Eric Stewart

Neil Finn and Flight Of The Conchords have all played for the all blacks

...is Dr. Alice Roberts' cousin.

...has a paramilitary wing which is more feared in certain circles than the SAS.

wears a 'lucky shirt' whenever he flies

...on Wuthering Heights was played by Michael Parkinson.

...have a rudimentary visual system.

Martin George

Was a real life documentary

undertook uncredited script rewrites on The Human Centipede.

sets light to his farts

after a particularly rude customer upset him while he worked at a Manchester Chicken Cottage.

Simply transposed his given birth names after he visited Transformation on Eversholt Street as a teenager.

is in the RSC.

Is Beverley Craven's dad.

Tanita Tikaram and Lloyd Cole are brother and sister.

The "Tamatawakiangi.." bit at the start of Quantum Jump's Lone Ranger is voiced by the same man who designed the Smash aliens.

Richard Dawkins a huge fan of Doctor Who and bombarded Lady Romana actress Lalla Ward with fan-mail. They were eventually introduced, and married in 1992.

is popularly supposed to be someone violently opposed to progress in a mechanical technology which could result in workers in a trade being replaced by said machinery. In popular parlance it in fact refers to someone who does not know how to download an app.

you know the rest...

invented the world's first self-cleaning harmonica.

Drummer and husband of Souxsie Sioux was a schoolboy winner on Crackerjack when Michael Aspell was host.

Jean Jacques Burnell owns a collection of vintage tractors

Barry Blue has a merchant sea captain's license

...as a Church of England bishop, the candidate must make three avowed kills. Photographic evidence, together with the feet and ears of the victims, are to be delivered to Lambeth Palace in a sandwich hamper, by sunrise of the interview day.

Bob Geldof later dubbed the phrase "Give us your fucking money" for the later DVD release.

famous audition for Malcolm McLaren in the shop Sex on King's Road was such a success because Lydon was in a raging strop because his application to become a cadet at Hendon Police College had just been rejected, thus confounding his lifelong ambition.

...is Leanne Rimes's father.

the 'rimshot' is also used as a technical term in the adult film industry.

...in Wandsworth, alma mater of Burial, Hot Chip, Four Tet and The XX, has a zero tolerance policy on the carrying of real drums. Anyone found in possession of a pair of sticks is assumed to be in contravention of the policy and is summarily expelled.

...in the Human Centipede was originally going to be Nicholas Soames.

...was brought up as a girl until he was seven years old. He has maintained a curly perm since that time.

...after hearing a tripping Julian Cope shout after his magic rabbits, Stone and Henge, in a quarry.

Peter Wylie changed his name in tribute to his love of Wile E Coyote

...wrote and performed the theme tune to Brookside.

Briefly auditioned as a vocalist for the reformed Wedding Present before original vocalist, David Gedge, finally agreed to rejoin once a suitable fee was agreed.

... Thomas The Tank Engine originally. However a bout of tonsillitis prevented him from attending the recording, Ringo stepped in, and the rest is history.

...used to be called James, but then one of his solos actually melted his name.

feet stink.

When on the arm of rapping mogul P Diddy he insisted she wore mink and ermine-lined odour eaters. A habit she maintains to this day at a monthly cost of some £43,000.

Can often be seen out on the lash in the hot spots of the capital wearing a three piece suit made entirely of grey squirrel skins.

is the fictitious great grandson of Sam Weller of Pickwick Papers fame.

..Do They Know Its Christmas and only agreed to sing its opening lines when a furious Bob Geldof threatened to pour gravy on his hair

... is Alan Partridge's brother.

is not Mark Knopfler's brother.

The instance of the same surname is in fact merely bizarre coincedence. The 'brother' angle was fabricated at the time to generate publicity and the eventual split was amicable with David trousering an agreed amount to leave.

Is appearing on the new series of Strictly come...... Oh.... Hang on a minute.

that Jack White is the love child of Black Francis & Cilla Black.This completely disproves the old adage that two Blacks can't make a White.

was constructed entirely from spare parts left by Jayne County

... Kenny Everett, who was born Maurice Cole.

... is the father-in-law of Hollywood 'funnyman' Jack Black.
Oh ... damn. That one's true as well.

and saw every Gentle Giant gig in the 70's.

actor Paul Usher who played Barry grant in Brookside runs a cattery in Skipton

was a backing dancer in the Bobby Brown video for "Every Little Step"

played in goal in Millwall's youth team in the 70s

was the first choice to play the priest in Ballykissangel

... had its sets designed by Mark Rothko

... artist Wyndham Lewis played league football for Leyton Orient FC (then known as Clapton Orient)

Nick Clegg was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students when it was disbanded by Party Chairman Norman Tebbitt for being too right wing. Clegg's father is the only surviving member of the cast of "Last of the Summer Wine".

... the five faces that featured on the wrapper of Cadbury's 'Five Boys' chocolate bar were those of a very young Billy Bremner, Paul Reaney, Eddie Gray, Trevor Cherry and Terry Cooper - all former Leeds United players.

Actually, it's not such a strange coincidence. Don Revie was Cadbury's Head Taster before getting into football management.

... Cher worked in the forensics lab of the Los Angeles Police Dept. making lifesize clay models of body parts in cases where a body had decomposed too far or parts were missing, making identification difficult. While working on the reconstruction of a face Cher had the idea that living flesh & bone could be altered to change a person's appearance. After discussing it with Dr. Shelby Bloomenstein, LAPD's then Chief Medical Officer, the practice of cosmetic surgery was born.

is allergic to custard creams.

includes an actual Frogs Chorus that was taught how to sing by Rod Stewart and Bonnie Tyler

has 7 testicles.

..........came up with the original idea for the Betterware catalogue and still assists in evaluating new products suggested for inclusion

actually from Derby.
David Essex was born in Kent.

... is addicted to dwarf porn.

was the uncle of Alex James, Blur bassist and cheesemaker.

were originally called Plumpton - the venue of their first gig.

enjoys cross breeding Rodents.
He has recently cross-bred a Hamster and a Guinea Pig and created a Guinster. This is now being used to font a major marketing campaign for Sausage Rolls and Pasties.
Perhap his most famous cross-breeding was to cross a larger rodent with a skin disease - he had created Rat Scabies.

won the Dagmar Skidmark Lifetime Award for Plagiarism in 2008

Julian Clary's grandfather Derek was the first chairman of British Steel

was Gripper from Grange Hill.

is banned from all branches of Starbucks after being caught stealing sugar sachets.

owns the rights to 'World of Sport'.

composed the Thames TV ident music.

Paul Daniels was one of Ken Dodd's Diddymen.

first professional job was as the face of Soap & Glory's 'Calm One, Calm All' bubble bath range.

that Rod Liddle has no intrinsic value as such

wrote the 'Shake'n'Vac' song.

is 'James Herriot'

emigrated from France when he was 14. His real name is Jean-Paul Dutoit

first name is actually Laurie.

wanted to launch a fragrance called So New York but shelved plans after Sony Electronics threatened legal action over the proposed pack design

is David Jason's son from a liaison with Una Stubbs

is so tiny that, when filming The Good Life, she lived on set in a flowerpot.

and can lick the insides of his own ears.

(who plays Jimmie Krankie) was a co-founder of the Fence Collective record label.

Shed Seven have a 300 plot allotment named after them just outside York.

Jimmy Pursey runs a media company that makes promotional videos for Crown Estates and Duchy Originals.

Johnny Borrell (of Razorlight) is tone deaf.

Simon Cowell was the script-doctor for the Alan Clark Diaries.

of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch, later re-trained and became a forensic pathologist with the Wiltshire Constabulary. His real name is James Allan.

Won the Canadian version of Celebrity Masterchef in 2007.

is adopted.

... auditioned for Mumford & Sons - and only didn't get in because they already had a serial killer in the band and thought it might cause friction.

enigmatic drummer from Dr Feelgood, is now known as The Slender Figure after losing six stone and becoming an international ambassador for Slimming World.

...had an uncredited part in the early '80s US alternative punk scene as xylophone player on Violent Femmes "Add It Up"

[Re-directed from Brian McFadden Biography]

Formed on 3rd July 1998, all the members were selected by their manager Louis Walsh based on their ability to fit inside a large sports holdall. They would all be tested yearly and anyone who failed to fit would have to leave the band. [disambiguation required]

finished in 2003 Michael Owen bought all the houses in the cul-de-sac for his family to live in.

once won 6 shillings in a competition to design a new shape for the Strawberry Mivvi ice cream.

... was the Vienna Boys' Choir's principal boy soprano during their American tour of 1961.

... 12" LPs are called "records" not because they contain a "record" of the performance but because Eugene Record's (former lead singer with the Chi-Lites) father Marvin invented the 12 inch 33 rpm disc in Chicago in 1945.

... is named after big beaked 'Streets Of San Francisco' actor Karl Malden.

is so obsessed with the size of his carbon footprint will never travel alone. If he can't share a ride with at least one other person he will post himself inside a large flight case to his destination.

Johnny Thunders was a silent partner in a chip shop in Willesden Green.

former boy band teen idol singer with Bros now has a residency at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He performs a 'Rat Pack' type show and is bringing it to The Royal Albert Hall in October.

was the original trumpeter on the Coronation Street theme.

is from a mispronounciation of "Abracadabra"

They wanted to evoke a little magic in their name, hence

Abbacadabra

The scamps on the Football 365 Forum have beaten you to it. Their Danny Dyer hoax has got a mention on none other than the Word podcast!

had a paper doily collection.

is believed to have the world's largest collection of starting pistols, a hobby he began after "liberating" the one used in the men's 400-metres hurdles race at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. In a 2004 interview for Car Coat magazine, he claimed to have over 1,650 pieces, all card-indexed and classified by event and race winner.

Over the years he has been bombarded with offers from many potential buyers, but he has always refused to part with the guns. "I've had them so long, they've become a part of me now, like little extensions of my arms," he recently explained.

The Manics' bassist Nicky Wire plays off a golf handicap of 2.

Prior to Oasis, when a builder, Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs converted Arthur Albistan's garage into a games room.

spontaneously combusted on at least 2 occasions

could speak with an amazingly authentic Geordie accent thanks to the tutelage of Chas Chandler.

Electric Ladyland out-takes include an acid-jazz version of 'Keep Your Feet Still Geordie, Hinny'

Cheryl Baker is the daughter of Chet Baker and meanest cat Ma Baker

Ma and Cheryl fell out which is why the song only mentions her four sons

was the visual inspiration for the small boy featured in the early part of the animated film 'Belleville Rendezvous'

won first prize at the 1964 Dudley Spelling Bee

Dean designed the Muller Fruit Corner.

when brother Maurice kicked him in the knackers after he ate his Twix.

John Parrot is allergic to tropical birds.

Sir Jimmy Saville is useless at DIY

They are actually Belgian

attends cage fighting classes most Thursdays.

got the name for his famous detective one day when the Edinburgh public transport vehicle he was travelling on broke down. When the replacement service arrived the conductor called out, "OK everybody, rebus".

has seen GWAR 102 times.

alien was modelled on Milli from Milli Vanilli

is the grandson of Salvation Army founder William Booth.

of the Japanese war effort, Yoko Ono's father invented the karaoke machine.

likes to sing tracks from The Hissing of Summer Lawns in the shower. His Saturday night record is Black Monk Time and his Sunday morning listening is a compilation tape of Luscious Jackson out-takes given to him by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson as a thank you after Simon stepped in at the last minute to give Laurie away at their wedding.

For shits and giggles backstage on X factor Simon likes to play Threnody For Hiroshima Victims over the PA system in Louis Walsh's dressing room. Simon attributes his success in wooing and bedding all the female judges on the show with his ability to recite from memory Ivor Cutler's The Dirty Dinner.

perform at cricket functions as jazz trio "The Maiden Overs". Colville at the piano, Atherton on drums and Willis on double bass

Thompson Twins, were Richard and Danny. Just before the release of the single "Doctor Doctor" the band brought in a *no beards* policy. The former left to form Fairport Convention, the latter left to go drinking with John Martyn.

the Tottenham and England (we wish...) "marauding left-back" - played Galen in the original Planet Of The Apes movie.

No make-up was required during filming.

is based on Morph

the TON TON MACOUTE started out as a salsa band and then got carried away

jumps in the air with fright every time she hears her name mentioned.

of being given a Word cover Brian Ferry is adjusting to his new nickname, "Fanny Face"

appeared as an uncredited dancer in "Summer Holiday".

was as a supply teacher on Grange Hill.

Brandon Flowers came up with the strapline "Bang! And the dirt is gone!", while temping at an ad agency.

... founded the Honda Motor Company in 1958.

They were originally based in Penge.

first EMI recording session George Martin attempted to put the nervous Liverpool lads at ease by saying "If there's anything you don't like, just let me know".

Famously, George Harrison quipped "Well, for a start, I don't like your tie!"

Whereupon the notoriously ill-tempered producer exclaimed "You cheeky little twat!" and punched Harrison squarely in the face, leaving him with the impressive black eye seen on the Love Me Do photo session.

convenience food was meant to be anaconda slices, until they discovered the tins needed to be 38 feet long.

after their doctor informed them that sitting down for too long could exacerbate their painful piles.

invented cruise control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_control

...is a member of Combat 18.

plastic surgeon sneezed during his op.

is a musical based on In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

has copyrighted the words Jazz Ears(© Rupert Murdoch Enterprises)

South African president Botha took the decision to release Nelson Madela after watching a particularly touching episode of "Different Strokes".

Once toured with the Jam around Scotland, they got stuck in the snow one evening and she had to cuddle up in the van with Rick Buckler to avoid freezing to death, when Weller and Foxton came to his rescue he signalled to them to go away in no uncertain terms using a Churchillian wave of his hand, Weller disbanded the band shortly after refusing to play "Lilac Wine".

.... got the idea for “Deal or No Deal” from his close personal friend Black Francis, who used to play an early version of the game with his then bassist and her twin sister.

year as part of the Christmas Day entertainment at Sandringham the Royal Family re-enact their favourite scenes from The Royle Family.

has a season ticket at Upton Park.

...was Senator Joe McCarthy in a previous life.

Barbara Dickson provided backing vocal on the Motorhead single "Eat The Rich".
Following a brief romance with Lemmy, and the re-recording of the duet "I Know Him So Well", Ms Dickson recorded a whole album of Motorhead cover versions.

was offered a schoolboy trial at Acrington Stanley but wouldn't give up his saturday job at United Dairies

invented the afternoon.

beavering away in his basement laboratory trying to produce a hairy cornflake.

chart James Taylor's addiction to Dr J Collis Brown cough medicine in the early 70's.

Is a real medievil fort and is currently home to Max Clifford.

actually met his mum at the crossroads and she gave him a nice packed lunch.

is a documentary

...blood is made entirely of gravy

Bill Gates and David Gates are actually twins.

changed his name to Bono as it was an anagram of his favourite TV detective, Michael Elphicks "Boon"

at the mighty HMV store in London's West End, David Hepworth was part of an elite "dirty tricks" squad set up to discredit Richard Branson's fledgling Virgin Records.

Every lunchtime Hepworth and his hand picked-team of vinyl guerrillas would enter the tiny Virgin store above an Oxford Street boutique and posing as customers, they would surreptitiously remove all the Jethro Tull records from the "J" section and misfile them under "T".

So damaging was this to Branson's credibility among the great-coated "heads" it's rumoured that by 1976 the burgeoning Virgin empire was on the brink of collapse. Only the timely arrival of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks in October 1977 saved the company from ruin.

Rumours that Hepworth was subsequently head-hunted by British Airways proved unfounded.

120ml of Tom Jones sweat is buried beneath the steps of the welsh assembly building along with other items significant to Welsh history.

played the piano on Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You", only to have his credit left off the sleevenotes after a dispute over royalties.

Following the success of his last covers album, Dylanesque, is turning his gaze to the south east for the next one entitled Squeezey.

.........is locked in a bitter legal dispute with Cheryl Cole over her claims to be the one and only Angel of the North

was going to launch a line of skin products for men but has had to postpone it due to authorities objecting to the brand name "Dr Phil" because it could be thought to have been developed by a medical doctor such as a dermatologist.
He is now looking into the possibility of a recording career, inspired by the unlikely success of Susan Boyle.