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Otto's Weird Music Thread

I knew that the Rolling Stones hated to be forced to lip sync at TV shows and loved to make clear that they are not live, but I didn’t know that the Mamas and Papas was even more hardcore.

 
Whilst we are on the subject of airing people's dirty laundry in public, how about this little offering???


And also the reposte from his understandably-pissed ex???

 
Lynortis said:
I knew that the Rolling Stones hated to be forced to lip sync at TV shows and loved to make clear that they are not live, but I didn’t know that the Mamas and Papas was even more hardcore.

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The one time it isn't Mama Cass Elliot stuffing her mouth :p

..and on a serious note, while Elliot did have a weight problem her cause of death was not choking on a sandwich, that was made up by her manager, Allan Carr, who found it preferable to rumors she had died of a drug overdose which were also not true. She died of a heart attack, and no drugs were found in her system at the time.
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
Perhaps telling a band to delete the lyric "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" in hindsight was probably not the wisest idea :ROFLMAO:
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BBC had not much of a choice:

In early December 2009, the English DJ Jon Morter and his wife Tracy launched a group on Facebook encouraging people to buy the song in the week before Christmas. They hoped to prevent the winner of The X Factor, a televised singing competition, from achieving the UK Christmas number one for the fifth year running.[30][31] On December 15, the BBC reported the group had more than 750,000 members.[32]

As the X Factor song was donating some of the profits to charity,[33] the Rage Against X Factor campaign encouraged supporters also to give to charity. Alongside the group, a Justgiving page was created to raise money for homeless charity Shelter which, as of 20 December, had raised over £70,000 (approximately $110,000).[34]

After the X Factor creator, Simon Cowell, denounced the campaign as "stupid" and "cynical",[35] the group gained more attention and was mentioned on various UK news channels, radio stations and websites. Rage Against the Machine added their support. Morello said that achieving the Christmas number one would be "a wonderful dose of anarchy" and that he planned to donate the unexpected windfall to charity.[36][37] Dave Grohl, Muse, Them Crooked Vultures, Liam Howlett and the Prodigy were among many musicians and celebrities supporting the campaign.[33][38][39] The campaign received support from Paul McCartney, who had appeared on The X Factor with the finalists,[40][41] and the X Factor contestants Jedward.[42] Critics noted that both The X Factor and Rage Against the Machine are signed to labels that are part of Sony BMG;[32][43][44] Morello dismissed conspiracy claims as ridiculous.[45][46] Kasabian's Tom Meighan and Sergio Pizzorno expressed their happiness at the campaign's success in an NME interview and criticized The X Factor.[47]

Rage Against the Machine attracted controversy when they performed an uncensored rendition of the song on BBC Radio 5 Live in mid-December 2009, despite the hosts asking them to censor the expletives. During the crescendo of their performance, frontman Zack De La Rocha started out only singing "I won't do what you tell me", with a pause where he normally sings "fuck you", but after a few lines, he screamed the lyrics, "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" repeatedly. Hosts Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty apologized afterwards.[36][48]

On December 20, 2009, BBC Radio 1 revealed that the song had reached the number one spot, selling more than 500,000 copies and being the first download-only single to become the UK Christmas number one.[34] The following week, Joe McElderry's cover of "The Climb" became the last British UK number one single of the year and the 2000s. "Killing in the Name" dropped to number two, falling 38 places to number 40 the week after,[49][50] and dropping out of the top 75 the following week, falling to number 100.[51]

The campaign spread to Ireland, where, like the UK, the Christmas number one had been dominated by X Factor finalists for five years. McElderry beat Rage Against the Machine to Christmas number one, with Rage Against the Machine reaching number two.[52] On June 6, 2010, Rage Against the Machine performed at a free concert for 40,000 fans in Finsbury Park.[53] On stage, Tracy and Jon Morter were handed a representative cheque in the amount of £162,713.03, representing the proceeds from donations to JustGiving and royalties from sales of the single.[54] As a result of the campaign, the song is featured in the 2011 UK edition of the Guinness World Records under the category of 'Fastest-selling digital track (UK)', after recording 502,672 downloads in its first week.[55]

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Killing in the Name - Wikipedia

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