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Otis Redding's Dock Of The Bay was the first song to top the charts posthumously. Also, according to the musicians who backed him on it, the whistling at the end was improvised on the spot because he had forgotten the lyrics.
Not true about the chart placement (though it's true about the whistling finale). Country legend Jim Reeves hit number one in England with "Distant Drum" in 1966 . . . a year before Otis Redding turned the posthomous trick and two years after Reeves died in a plane crash. Popular as he was in Europe and internationally in those years (often more popular than in his native U.S.), Reeves had never topped the British charts when he was alive. Dead, he knocked the Beatles ("Yellow Submarine") and the Small Faces ("All or Nothing") out of the top spots.
And, if you want to get technical about it, Tommy Dorsey turned the trick in 1958---sort of. After his death (he choked in his sleep in 1956; brother Jimmy died of cancer a year later), trumpeter Warren Covington (with the endorsement of Dorsey's widow, who owned the rights to the band and the name) became the leader of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and they topped the charts---billed as "Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Under the Direction of Warren Covington"---with "Tea for Two Cha-Cha."
The Who drummer, Keith Moon, drove a Lincoln into the swimming pool of a Holiday Inn in 1968.
He's also said to have loaded a swimming pool with Jell-O and thrown George Harrison into it as a birthday prank once upon a time . . . and to have left piranha in a bathtub in one hotel after the Who left town . . .
If they ever make a movie about Keith Moon's antics, they'll have to get the surviving members of Monty Python to pull it off.
Well, Whistler, I stand corrected and do appreciate the input.
So here's one that I hope is perhaps a little more airtight. Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai poured his heart and soul (and blood) into an Ibanez guitar that he asked them to build to his specifics. In 2000 three hundred limited edition guitars were produced with Steve's own blood mixed in with the paint at an 8:1 ratio, paint to blood. The Ibanez JEM2KDNA .
Before starting his run at the legendary Whisky A Go Go, Johnny Rivers hired a fill in bass player named Sylvester Stewart. Things didn't go well that first night and Stewart was fired. A few years later he would re-appear on the music scene as the leader of his own band... Sly and The Family Stone.
Bjork was only 11 years old when she had her first hit in Iceland in 1976 with the cover song, "I Love to Love" by Tina Charles.
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