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The postage stamps of the Palestinian National Authority have featured many well-known figures, but those with Pope John Paul II might be fake illegal stamps. 
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| When Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" finally fell off of Billboard's Hot 200 Album list in October 1988, it had set a record of 741 weeks on the chart. |
| "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" the 1960 hit for Elvis Presley was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926 as a vaudeville recitation and first recorded by Al Jolson. |
| The first group to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were The Coasters. |
| More than 2,500 cover versions of The Beatles' "Yesterday" exist, making it the most recorded song in history. |
| Barry Manilow's hit, "I Write The Songs" was actually written by Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys. |
| Glen Frey of the Eagles played rhythm guitar on Bob Seger's "Ramblin', Gamblin' Man. |
| EMI stands for Electrical & Musical Instruments. |
| Puff Daddy/P Diddy throws away his trainers after wearing them for just one day. |
| When John Lennon divorced Julian Lennon's mother Cynthia, Paul McCartney composed the song "Hey Jude," to cheer Julian up. |
| Over 400 musicians applied for a part in The Monkees, including Stephen Stills, John Sebastian and Harry Nilsson. |
| The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India. |
| Sonny and Cher were initially known as Caesar and Cleo. |
| David Howell Evans, U2's 'The Edge' used to live in the Los Angeles house where Eric and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in 1989. |
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