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Whonh! Whonh! Whonh!
Larry Hagman once purchased a Malibu home next to that of Burgess Meredith (whom...
Yappers
While attending the symphony one evening, Henry Parker was dismayed to find that...
John Paul II: Children's Choir
"A children's choir performed for the Pope [in Azerbaijan]," 'Tonight Show' host...
By George!
Among George Antheil's early avant-garde pieces, none caused a greater sensation...
Highway to Hell!
During the American invasion of Panama in 1989, troops blasted AC/DC's "Highway ...
Salt
The painter Buonamico Buffalmacco once lived next door to a rich wool worker who...
Trumpet Call
After a performance of Beethoven's "Leonora Overture No. 3" one evening, during ...
Television Prank
One night Alice Cooper decided to pull a prank on his bodyguard - by pretending ...
Exit Sandman
In May 2003, US interrogators in Baghdad revealed that they were using heavy met...
MERRRRRRDE!
The Ramones played so loud that, while recording their first album, they destroy...
Miraculous Mandarin
Bela Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin was not well received at its debut ...
Busted
The famed English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell once attempted to smuggle her li...
Hillbilly Deluxe
To deter the hordes of reporters which descended upon Barbra Streisand's Malibu ...
Martinelli
One evening, Giovanni Martinelli visited the opera to see a fellow Italian in th...
Sympathy In E Major?
While riding in a taxi in New York one day, Sir Thomas Beecham began repeatedly ...
Rich Reply
One day on the set, John Rich had enormous difficulty with a certain outdoor sho...
Duet
"We had a new director, 'daring' but not yet 'sensational,' for a production of ...
Game For Music?
While visiting a restaurant one evening, George Bernard Shaw and a friend found ...
Baby Talk
Samuel Johnson once took pity on a poor woman trudging through the rain with a s...
Hollow Snag
In the summer of 2002, a six-man team led by Cornell University ornithologist Jo...
Slight Consolation
One day, one of Richard Sheridan's servants dropped a large pile of plates. The ...
Wavian Simile
Upon his return from the battle of Crete in 1941, Evelyn Waugh was asked for his...
Barrel Organs
One summer Verdi rented a sizable cottage at a fashionable Italian resort. One d...
Chris Webber's Boat
When Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber was not on the basketball court, he c...
Axl Rose: Never Mind the Bo...
Guns 'n' Roses frontman Axl Rose was often asked about his musical inspirations....
Rolls Royce Engineering
"The best headline I ever wrote," the legendary copywriter David Ogilvy once rec...
Throbbing Gristle
In 1978, Monte Cazazza and his Throbbing Gristle bandmates found themselves livi...
Woogy?
During a certain month-long trip to India, P. J. O'Rourke, missing his wife and ...
Aaaaawwwwwoooooo!
One Saturday, a stray dog stopped by the Benny family home and began howling ben...
Bromo-Seltzer
A waiter once graciously offered to fetch W. C. Fields - suffering from a fright...
Going, Going, Gone
The composer Maria Cherubini once granted an audition to a man with such a power...
Wit's End?
While performing one evening in a local theater, John Kemble found himself const...
Screaming Trees!
In June 2003, Skunk Anansie guitarist 'Ace' set a new deliberately "fucking corn...
Ozzy Osbourne: PSA
By 2003, with "The Osbournes" drawing some six million viewers (compared with MT...
Pagers
Kiev (Reuters) — A Ukrainian businessman who bought a pager for each member of h...
Radio Craze
In 1936, Jean Harlow starred in a multi-part Lux radio play called "Madame Sans-...
Rocky Relationship
One year Sandro Botticelli was dismayed to discover that a neighboring weaver ha...
Wreckers
When the opera The Wreckers was first staged in 1909, influential friends...
Boys' Brigade
While staying at a house near Glyndebourne, the legendary Sir Thomas Beecham (fo...
Imaginary Landcape
The composer John Cage's Imaginary Landcape No. 4 (1953), never
sounds t...
POD
In October 2003, POD frontman Sonny Sandoval and his bandmates had to cancel a s...
Jimi Hendrix: Peerless Passion
Jeff Beck once recalled the first time he saw Jimi Hendrix play guitar. Indeed, ...
Harvey Karp: Neanderthal Pa...
In 2004, pediatrician and bestselling author Dr. Harvey Karp published a new boo...
Les Blomberg: Noise Pollution
"It started one summer night at 4 a.m. It was 1995 and [noise expert Les] Blombe...
Joe Queenan: Anger Management
The writer and humorist Joe Queenan once visited an anger management therapist t...
Din
Legendary producer Sam Goldwyn spent $20,000 to change a scene in his first all-...
Dry Humor
Mark Twain was no fan of James Fenimore Cooper's fiction: "It is a restful chapt...
Gifted Mimic
"One day just after the war, [Kingsley Amis] and two friends were strolling alon...
L7
In the summer of 1992, L7 made their network television debut on "The Late Show ...
Country Music
Don Chamberlain, a professional pitcher of horseshoes, was once asked why he kep...
Gustav Mahler: Niagara Visit
The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler once visited Niagara Falls. His verdict? ...
Matthew McConaughey: Bongo Boy
In October 1999, police responded to a disturbance call at Matthew McConaughey's...
Harold Clurman
Harold Clurman was a famously active sleeper. Robert Lewis was once graciously i...
Off with their Headsets?
In November, 2000, Queen Elizabeth forbade royal footmen from carrying cellphone...
Samuel Johnson: Music Lover?
A lady, having completed a brilliant harpsichord performance in his presence, as...
Manure?
In September 2002, one of the biggest hits in the history of Parisian theatre - ...
Slugger
Famed Cleveland Indians slugger Albert Belle used his bat for more than baseball...
Sewing Tribesmen
By 1861, Isaac Merritt Singer's sewing machines (which Mahatma Gandhi called "on...
Cruikshank's Farmer
"Homer Watson's home at Doon in the heart of the beautiful pastoral country of W...
Vegetarians
"George Bernard Shaw, a staunch vegetarian, refused to attend a gala testimonial...
Oh Boy
Boy George once explained why he had such a big mouth: "I never flew before I wa...
Alice Cooper Gig
Shortly after the start of an Alice Cooper gig one evening, the crowd of 3,000 g...
Moon the Loon
The Who's Keith Moon, famed for his notorious antics, celebrated his 20th birthd...
Vic Tandy: Frequent Occurance?
The engineer Vic Tandy once sought to demystify a "haunting" in his Coventry lab...
Crying Child
"A wealthy American woman tried to get in touch with [Peter Pan creator] Sir Jam...
Richard Wagner & Baudelaire
Richard Wagner was not without his critics. "I love Wagner," Charles Baudelaire ...
Matthew Perry's Nose
Matthew Perry was once asked whether he had had a nose job (as widely rumored). ...
Christian Dior
Christian Dior internationalized fashion. By the early 1950s, Dior salons had op...
Iggy Pop
"The only thing I thought might ever kill me off was clean living," Iggy Pop onc...
Keanu Reeves: Folk Thrash
Keanu Reeves, who once likened his band Dogstar's music to folk thrash, was once...
50 Cent Justice
While driving with some friends near Miami Beach one day in February 2004, a Flo...
Who's Deaf
"I play bass," the Who's bassist John Entwistle once remarked, "like Keith Moon ...
Beatlemania!
How intense were Beatles fans? "You could not hear them playing anything," assoc...
Jesse Helms: U2 Concert
"Seated down front at U2's Elevation Tour concert in Washington, D.C. [in June 2...
The Beast
The Beast, the Christian Science Monitor reported in April 2004, is a che...
Prince Philip: Noise and Smoke
During a press conference one day, Prince Philip was asked what he thought of th...
Hotel Sex
The entire cast of "Will & Grace" once appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Le...
Ludacris: Clapper
Ludacris was once asked why he kept a lamp lit under his bed. When he explained ...
Cage's Wall
"Schoenberg said I would never be able to compose," the avant-garde composer Joh...
Jenny Craig: It Happened On...
In 2001, Jenny Craig began to suffer from a bizarre condition. The neurological ...
Young Saint-Saens
One evening, young Camille Saint-Saens accompanied his parents to a symphony co...
Uh-Om
A friend of the Molnars once observed the couple fall into a violent argument ov...
Bang on a Can Festival
In June 2003, New Yorker scribe Alex Ross attended the annual Bang on a C...
Tragic Opera
In 1910, Sir Thomas Beecham conducted the opening night performance of Richard S...
Bollinger
"It was a glorious evening at Chevening, the official residence of Sir Geoffrey ...
Fellow Poets
Fellow poets Charles Algernon Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti once shared a...
Levant
At a college concert one evening, Oscar Levant was playing a virtuoso pianist pa...
Avant-Garde Composition
Such was the oddity of avant-garde composer Anton von Webern's work that during ...
Pelvic Noise
In 2003, Thurston Moore made a memorable appearance at the annual Bang on a Can ...
The Sounds: College Party
One of the Sounds's first gigs was a show at a rowdy college party.
Maja Ivars...
Car 54, Where Are You?
The application of new technology to the production of music occasionally has un...
Baby Zito
"[Barry Zito] was different from the start, alive with vibration. By Joe's count...
King of Beasts
"We were on our way to the Lupa River in Tanganyika and I had cycled ahead of my...
Little Pecker
While vacationing with his wife Grace one year, famed cartoonist Walter Lantz wa...
Creative Process
The notorious rows between Samuel Goldwyn and his top director, William Wyler, w...
Sonic Weapons
The French robotics researcher Gavreau once traced some inexplicable bouts of na...
Eccentric
"Bertrand Russell told us that Herbert Spencer suffered from a greatly over-acti...
Ringo's Rotogravure
In 1976, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr released a solo album entitled ...
Bach Critic
Johann Sebastian Bach was not without his critics. "All Bach's last movements," ...
Barbaric Chord
The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev was evicted from his lodgings on several o...
Ruff Day
In September 2002, George Stephanopoulos was tossed out of a Barnes & Noble book...
Queen Supayalat
Queen Supayalat of Burma was responsible for one of the most atrocious mass murd...
Cookie Crumbles
One day Alice Cooper auditioned for Frank Zappa. At last, Zappa threw his hands ...
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