Summer Edition 2018
Packed with interviews! This edition features Pixie Lott, Andrew Ridgeley and Sir Tim Rice on all things music.
Packed with interviews! This edition features Pixie Lott, Andrew Ridgeley and Sir Tim Rice on all things music.
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FUN FACTS<br />
There are more<br />
than 3,000<br />
recorded versions<br />
of Paul McCartney’s<br />
Yesterday<br />
Listening to music<br />
has the potential<br />
to have a small<br />
but significant<br />
impact on<br />
athletic performance<br />
The word<br />
orchestra<br />
comes from the<br />
Greek word meaning<br />
a dancing<br />
place<br />
A song that’s<br />
stuck in your<br />
head on repeat<br />
is called an<br />
EARWORM<br />
The Spice Girls<br />
have an airplane<br />
named after them<br />
called Spice One<br />
1 in 10,000<br />
people have<br />
PERFECT<br />
pitch<br />
Metallica<br />
is the first and<br />
only band to<br />
perform on all<br />
seven<br />
continents<br />
Leo Fender,<br />
developed the first<br />
solid-body electric<br />
guitar and electric<br />
bass guitar, but never<br />
learned to play<br />
You’ ll NEVER<br />
guess what?<br />
We’ve rounded up our favourite fun music facts<br />
for you to quiz your friends with this summer<br />
Elvis Presley<br />
didn’t write any<br />
of his songs and<br />
couldn’t play guitar<br />
very well<br />
Your heartbeat<br />
mimics the beat of<br />
the music you’re<br />
listening to<br />
The world’s smallest<br />
guitar, the<br />
Nano-Guitar<br />
is 10 micrometers<br />
long; the size of a<br />
human blood cell<br />
A 2015 study<br />
revealed that babies<br />
remain calm twice as<br />
long when listening<br />
to a song than when<br />
listening to talking<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: © SHUTTERSTOCK, PIXABAY<br />
Warner Music<br />
collects about<br />
$2m a year<br />
in licensing fees<br />
for the song<br />
Happy Birthday<br />
and finally…<br />
CLASSICAL<br />
music played<br />
to plants helps<br />
them grow<br />
FASTER<br />
The combined<br />
AGE of<br />
The Rolling<br />
Stones is 297<br />
135.1m<br />
albums were<br />
either streamed,<br />
purchased or<br />
downloaded<br />
in 2017<br />
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield released an album entirely recorded in space!<br />
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