Fascinating Facts and Trivia

In 1985,the billionaire Forbes family paid $156,000 for a bottle of wine.They then displayed the bottle under strong lights at an angle,rendering it worthless.

As the artists showed up to participate in recording ‘We are the World’, Stevie Wonder informed each of them that if the song was not finished in one take, he and Ray Charles would be driving everyone home.

‘Prisencolinensinainciusol’ is an Italian pop song consisting of gibberish and meant to sound like how English sounds to non English speakers.

I seem to recall that Michael Jackson insisted on being on his own for one verse dressed in his black and gold costume and bejewelled glove-not exactly the image for a song about famine-stricken kids.

Kool and the Gang were the only US group to sing on the Band Aid tune(and appeared in the video) 'Do They Know It's Christmas' Frankie Goes to Hollywood didn't appear but Holly Johnson can be heard saying 'feed the world' and 'I can't get the laugh right Bob' on the B-side of the 12" single.

A couple sued AC/DC in 1981 for $250,000 because their telephone number is in the song ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ resulting in hundreds of prank calls.

At the beginning of the song ‘Roxanne’ by the Police, during the intro, you hear a strange piano chord followed by Sting laughing. In fact during the voice recording, Sting accidentally sat on the piano just behind him. They decided to keep this on the final mix.

Mathematically there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.

It is possible to checkmate an opponent in two moves.

Speaking of The Police at the end of the song Invisible Sun you can hear Sting singing a song from My Fair Lady "Wouldn't it Be Loverly" "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air..."

At the end of their song Message In A Bottle the last line is 'sending out an Esso blue' which was the name of a brand of petrol back then.

In the video for the Housemartins' Happy Hour you can see a young comedian called Phil Jupitus behind a newspaper.

Sting got his nickname when he turned up to play in a jazz band wearing a stripey yellow and black jumper.

He and Stuart Copeland were being interview by Jonathan King for his television show on stage when they started to play fight-in the ensuing melee Sting broke a rib. Stuart's brother Miles was once in the CIA.

When the historic Plaza Hotel in New York opened in 1907, a room cost $2.50 per night - the equivalent of $64.26 today.

The Plaza now charges over $1000 per night.