26 Bits of Trivia About ‘80s Music That Were Shaken Out of A Back-Up Dancer’s Oversized Shoulder Pads

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26 Bits of Trivia About ‘80s Music That Were Shaken Out of A Back-Up Dancer’s Oversized Shoulder Pads

Party people in the place to be! We are your hosts, Fact Daddy and the Party Rockers, bringing you all the music facts from the ‘80s! That’s right, if it’s got facts about breakbeats, samples, synthesizers and glammed-out guitar solos, you can best believe we’ll be playing it here.

Have your cassette tapes ready to record all the classics. Hope you brought your pencils to manually rewind them if they get caught in the boombox!

Bruce Springsteen

Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen The song has a long history of being used in a patriotic fashion, despite it being about the difficult experiences of a Vietnam veteran returning home. CRACKED.COM

The Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys' (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)' was supposed to be a parody. The Beasties were poking fun at 1980's frat culture. Except that no one got the joke, and the song was adopted as an anthem celebrating the kind of debauchery it was sending up. CRACKED.COM

Sweet Child o’ Mine

Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child o' Mine began as a dumb joke. During a jam session, Slash started making faces while playing a silly melody. The other band liked the tune and ran with it. Within an hour my guitar exercise had become something else, Slash wrote. CRACKED.COM

Aerosmith

CRACKED.COM The dude in Aerosmith's Dude (Looks Like a Lady) is Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. According to songwriter Desmond Child, the song was born when the band went into a club and saw a woman with teased- up platinum mullet and black nails and porcelain skin and jewelry and with a curvy waist - who turned out to be Neil.

Billie Jean

CRACKED.COM Billie Jean almost got Michael Jackson killed. Jackson was so absorbed in the song, working on it in his head while driving, that he didn't notice his car was on fire. Someone on a bike had to point it out to him.

Journey

JOURNEY DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' CRACKED.COM Don't Stop Believin''' was an improvisational collaboration between keyboardist Jonathan Cain and singer Steve Perry. Cain only knew he wanted to base a song around that phrase since it was something his dad had said to him. Не used John Mellencamp's Jack and Diane as inspiration and the rest was improvised.

Axl Rose

CRACKED.COM According to Axl Rose, the seed for Welcome to the Jungle was planted when he and a friend hitchhiked to New York City. 100m - TWO ALB VARIE SHOP TE NOT While wandering around a Caribbean neighborhood, an old man came over, looked at them, and said, Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby. You're gonna die!

Stevie Nicks

GRACKED COM Stevie Nicks' Stand Back ripped off a Prince song. And he was totally cool with it. Nicks wrote the song over the melody for Little Red Corvette. She called Prince to offer him writing credit and ask if he wanted to hear it. To her amazement, he came over, gave it a listen, and proceeded to play new synthesizer parts for the song.

Leonard Cohen

CRACKED.COM Leonard Cohen's record company, Columbia, originally refused to release his album with the song Hallelujah in the United States. They said it wasn't good enough. Cohen released Various Positions independently in 1984, to general indifference. So why is Hallelujah so popular? Thank this guy. Yes. A song full of religious and sexual imagery was made world famous by 2001's Shrek, a cartoon movie for children.

Michael Jackson

Bad was originally going to be a collaboration between Michael Jackson and Prince. Producer Quincy Jones says it was his idea to put the two rivals together, and turn that antagonistic energy into pop gold. Apparently it was a hard , for Prince. CRACKED.COM

Bon Jovi

Desmond Child wrote 'If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)' for Bonnie Tyler, but the song did not reach the level of success he was hoping for. So he re-wrote it into 'You Give Love A Bad Name' for Bon Jovi, just to prove that the song was meant to be a hit. GRAGKED.COM

The Police

That out-of-place chord (followed by Sting laughing) in the first few seconds of The Police's Roxanne came from the singer's ass. The frontman explained that he hadn't slept the night before recording his vocals and tiredly sat on a piano thinking the lid was closed. We thought it was funny, so we left it in, he said. GRAGKED.COM

Under Pressure

CRACKED.COM Queen's collaboration with David Bowie on Under Pressure was pure impromptu. David Bowie just happened to be by the studio where Queen was recording tracks for their 10th studio album when both parties decided to work on an original piece during a 24-hour session. Mercury and Bowie even did their vocals separately without hearing each other as they sang their part.

Motley Crue

Motley Crue CRACKED.COM FIRST SHOW: Vince Neil says they sparked a brawl before they finished their first song: People were yelling, 'Fuck you!' One meathead hocked a loogey on my white leather pants. I leapt off the stage and started pummeling him.

Eddie Van Halen

26 Bits of Trivia About ‘80s Music That Were Shaken Out of A Back-Up Dancer’s Oversized Shoulder Pads

Toto

CRACKEDOON The world almost never got to hearAfrica. AFKIC ToTo Toto didn't want to include the song on their album because they thought it was terr

Prince

CRACKED PRINCE ARRESTED MARCH 28, 1980 On a flight from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi, Prince and keyboardist Doctor Fink were detained for stea

David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an emergency medical technician. Between leaving Van Halen in 1985 and reuniting with the band in 2006, Roth got certified as an EMT

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