The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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Buddy Holly, along with fellow musicians Richie Valens and the Big Bopper were all killed in the same plane crash in 1959. Apparently, they took the flight because Holly wanted to get a good nights sleep before their next gig.

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Patsy Cline's plane crashed in 1963 on her way back to Nashville, after performing a benefit concert for the widow of disc jockey Jack Call who'd recently died in a car crash. To add to the tradegy, Country star Jack Anglin was killed in a car crash on the way to her funeral.

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Italy boycotted the 1981 Eurovision Song contest, saying that it was too old fashioned, while the following year France ducked out saying that the cost was too great for such mediocre results.

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Some of the most popular entries to the Eurovision Song contest have including wonderful titles like, 'Boom Bang-aBang' (UK, 1969), 'A-Ba-Ni-Ba' (Israel, 1978), 'Bana Bana' (Turkey, 1989) and 'Bourn Badaborun' (Monaco, 1967).

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In the 1978 competition, Norway became the first country to not receive a single vote for their entry, 'Mil Etter Mil' (Mile after Mile).

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1983 Turkish Eurovision entry, 'Opera' consisted entirely of the word 'Opera' being repeated over and over while Spain's cleverly titled, 'La La La' contained no fewer than 138 la's.

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In the 1968 event Britain complained that Spain had not voted for their entry (Cliff Richard's 'Congratulations') to make it lose. In 1966 Scandinavians Sweden & Norway, who finished second & third respectively were accused of 'teaming up' to help each other.

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Norway entered the 1980 competition with a song written about the construction of a hydro-electric power station. Finland, not to be outdone by their Scandanavian neighbours scored nul points in the 1982 competition with a song protesting about the building of a nuclear power station.

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The youngest ever winner of the Eurovision Song contest was 13 year old Sandra Kin from Belgium in 1986. A natural result of this was that contestants started to get younger until a furore occured in 1989 with France's 11 year old entry and Israel's 12 year old.

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Paul McCartney's song 'Yesterday', which was recently voted the most popular song of the century by a BBC poll, had music written before the lyrics. Paul used the working words 'scrambled eggs' before coming up with 'yesterday' while composing this song.

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The song 'strawberry fields forever' is actually two versions of the song mixed together by George Martin. One was a half-tone higher and slightly faster. When it was slowed down it somehow fit together with the other version perfectly. The Beatles liked both versions and couldn't decide on one and asked Martin if he could put them together somehow. When he tried it - it worked!

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The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style.

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Paul McCartney wrote the song Lovely Rita, Meter Maid for the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band after getting a parking ticket from a female warden in Abbey Road.

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The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, made the group's TV debut performing Roy Orbison's 'Dream Baby' on the BBC show 'Teenager's Turn' in 1962.

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'Hey Jude' was written by Paul in his car. Paul was on his way to visit Julian, John Lennon's son, who was disturbed by his parents' divorce. Paul wrote this song to cheer him up.