Kid Rock took a pay cut that cost him around $50,000 to $100,000 per night during his tour, just to keep ticket prices at $20 and a 12 oz beer at $4.
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At the age of 4, Bruno Mars was known as the youngest Elvis Presley.
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Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and thought that she “sounded like a goat”.
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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There is a man who claims to have travelled to an alternate dimension in which The Beatles never broke up and brought back a mix tape of Beatles songs no one in this dimension has ever heard.
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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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