• Although he eventually became a lauded and influential bassist, The Clash’s Paul Simonon did not know how to play the instrument—guitarist Mick Jones would show him what notes to play—up until the band started recording.
• David Nesta Marley, best known as Ziggy, got his nickname from being a huge fan of his namesake, David Bowie.
• Andy Summers’ “Behind My Camel” was so hated by Sting he not only refused to play bass on it, he actually buried the song’s master tapes in the garden of the studio where it was recorded. Summers dug it up, had it included on The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta album [A&M-1980] and eventually won a Grammy for it.
• Soundgarden’s original drummer was…Chris Cornell.
• “Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr. Epstein.”
- Decca Records executive Dick Rowe to Beatles manager Brian Epstein on why he refused to sign the band in 1962.
