Awesome (band): Difference between revisions

m
update links
m (Mass update links)
m (update links)
Line 164:
** When playing with playback during an Italian talk show, all the band members switched roles.
*** Iron Maiden pulled the musical musicians' chairs trick in the 80s, while promoting Somewhere In Time, on a Spanish talk show. They weren't asked back.
* MTV [[The Scrappy|generally doesn't get much love from music fans anymore]], but their (''[[One -Episode Wonder|very]]'') short-lived ''MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups'' series managed to bring together artists from (somewhat) different genres to produce the likes of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXRfIrvjeM this performance], probably more well-known now than either of the parent songs.
** Maybe Encore. Numb was already a massive hit for Linkin Park, whereas Encore wasn't really a big deal until the mix- which, by the way, was just one song on a full LP/Jay-Z mash-up album.
* Linda Thompson gets one for going on a drunken rampage and smashing up a hotel room, and being informed by the manager that the Sex Pistols had been in the week before and hadn't been half as bad. Yes, that's right Britain's most notorious and anarchist punks outperformed by a folk-singing mother of four.