#50
Number of years spanned in the Red Hot Chili Peppers video to Dani California. It starts out in a '50s early Rock setting, with Anthony Kiedis dressed as Elvis Presley. It then moves on to a stereotypical British Rock band that you would see on The Ed Sullivan Show in the '60s. They move on to a stereotypical Psychadelic Rock band, then the Funk era. The band is dressed as Parliamant/Funkadelic. It moves on to a stereotypical Glam Rock band, then Gothic band. Then it moves on to the Punk movement, Hair Metal, and Grunge. The Grunge band is one of the more clear bands to identify, as Kiedis is dressed like his friend Kurt Cobain. It ends with the Peppers as a sum up of all of these bands.
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#49
Number of sacks recorded during the NFL career of Cincinnati Bengal, Mike Reid – a two-time Pro Bowler who ended his career in 1974 and went on to write Bonnie Raitt’s hit I Can’t Make You Love Me.”
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#48
Number of hours it took U2’s “Joshua Tree” to go Platinum.
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#47
Number of minutes into the movie Lost In Translation when Bill Murray’s character, Bob Harris, sings karaoke to More Than This.
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#46
The age of Al Stewart when Tori Amos wrote a song for him to sing. The song was written during Amos's search for self (and solo album material) after the failure of her band Y Kant Tori Read. After hearing the song, producer Eric Rosse, who was producing some other songs Amos had composed, heard it and told her, "You're out of your mind. That's your life story." So she kept it.
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#45
Number of seconds into Steppenwolf’s ‘Born To Be Wild’ where the first lyrical use of the term Heavy Metal was used in song. The term kicked off a craze in the music industry in which many bands – formerly known as ‘Hard Rock’ bands – became known as ‘Heavy Metal Acts.’
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#44
James Coburn’s age when he posed for a picture with Denny Laine, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney and 5 others for the cover of Band On The Run.
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#43
Number of restaurants Jimmy Buffett owns in the US called “Cheeseburger in Paradise.”
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#42
Length (in minutes) of the Beatles last live performance, on the rooftop of the Apple building in London on January 30, 1969.
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#41
"American Skin (41 Shots)" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen, inspired by the police shooting death of Amadou Diallo. Diallo was killed when police officers approached him and identified themselves as NYPD officers. Diallo ran towards his apartment house doorway at their approach, ignoring their orders to stop and "show his hands." As the suspect reached into his jacket, the officers fired forty-one shots, hitting Diallo nineteen times. Investigation found the item he had pulled out of his jacket was a wallet. Springsteen addresses these moments in his song at 2 minutes 54 seconds into the song. Though at times the song appears to be critical of the police, the song is an even-handed attempt to explain the tensions between police and minorities.
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#40
In the biblical sense, the number 40 refers to many things, most notably "Forty days and forty nights" – describing the period for which rain fell during Noah's flood. This story was put to music by the Christian Rock band, Jars of Clay in 1995.
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#39
Seconds into “We’re An American Band” when GFR mentions the name Connie Hamzey - one of the most prolific groupies of all time. She is widely acknowledged to have “spent time” with many members of many bands that traveled through her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. Her groupie escapades were detailed in a Cosmopolitan (magazine) profile in 1974.
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#38
The number you get when you add up the digits of Tommy Tutone’s "867-5309."
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#37
Number of seasons World Tennis Team – The Philadelphia Freedoms – have been in place.
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#36
Age of Stevie Ray Vaughan when he died.
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#35
Number of hours it took to record the entire debut album by Elvis Costello, “My Aim Is True.” He did not have a backing band at the time, so Nick Lowe, who produced the album, brought in a group called Clover. Huey Lewis was in the band, but didn't participate in the sessions because they didn't need a harmonica player. Elvis was at that time Dec McManus - his real name. He was a mild-mannered, meek little songwriter who would hang out around Stiff Records and tell the lead singer of Clover, Alex Call, 'Man, I wish I could sing like you.' 35 hours later, one of the true classic albums was in the can and Declan McManus was about to become Elvis Costello.
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#34
Dollars, in thousands, The Beatles were paid for their first appearance at Seattle Center Coliseum (now Key Arena) in August of 1964. ($34,569 in 1964 bucks would be, in 2007 dollars, $220,000). Screaming fans made the noise in the Coliseum deafening and few if any could hear the songs. "Can¹t Buy Me Love."
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#33
Number of days it took Crosby, Stills and Nash to record their debut album – an album which stayed on the US charts 679 days.
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#32
Month and day (March 2, 1964) The Beatles' cover version of Twist and Shout was released for the first time. It reached #2 on April 4th 1964, the week when the first five places on the chart were all Beatles singles. In the United States, "Twist and Shout" was the only million-selling Beatles single that was a cover record, and the only Beatles cover single to reach the Top 10 on any national record chart.
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#31
Number of weeks Rumors topped the US charts.
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#30
Jane Fonda’s age when Barbarella was released – the movie which was viewed by Bob Seger inspiring him to write the song “Her Strut.”
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#29
The age of George Borowski when Dire Straits released ‘Sultans of Swing.’ George is a great-nephew of the Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov. As a teenager, he taught himself to play guitar, and played in a number of short-lived bands. He was immortalized in the 1979 Dire Straits song as “Guitar George.”
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#28
Number of barriers encountered in the 3000 meter Steeplechase. The world record for women is 9:01.59 and was set in 2003. American, Delilah DiCrescenzo, set her personal best for steeplechase at 9:59:48 in June 2006. She is training to qualify for the 2008 Olympics.
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#27
Age at the time of death for the following musicians: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Peter Ham, Robert Johnson.
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#25
Doug Feiger's age when he wrote a song about his 17-year old girlfriend. The song is credited with the ending of disco and beginning of power pop. My Sharona.
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