The "did you know" thread..... - Page 430

OldSchool47 · 02-28-2017, 08:09 PM

Bet you didn't know this MaxJoker.

"Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV9DJwJKWMw

**Mal Hombre** · 02-28-2017, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Greenman

Celebrities that were/are accomplished pianists
Eric Morecambe
Peter Sellers
Myleene Klass(formerly Liberty X)
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson(RIP)
Bruce Forsyth(All-round entertainer) very rarely seen playing it.

Dudley Moore
Les Dawson

**Greenman** · 02-28-2017, 10:05 PM

Les used to play the piano in brothels in Paris apparently and Dudley was a concert pianist but also loved jazz. Les was brilliant in playing the piano badly which is no easy feat. I have heard that there are a series of notes that if you play them to women it can turn them on-I am not sure how accurate this is.

**otokonomidori** · 03-02-2017, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Greenman

I have heard that there are a series of notes that if you play them to women it can turn them on..

£ notes in my experience.

**bloke57** · 03-02-2017, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Greenman

Celebrities that were/are accomplished pianists

Clint Eastwood - yes, really!

Sandra Bullock

Hugh Jackman

Brit comedian and Albanian hero Norman Wisdom could play to a limited extent and wrote seven songs including his hit "Don't Laugh at Me" - but he was a very good drummer.

**Greenman** · 03-02-2017, 04:22 PM

Here are a few facts about Hull, named and beginning it's year as City of Culture.
Hull is credited for the invention of:
Lemsip(cough & cold remedy), LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) screens and the boiled sweet

Actors Maureen Lipman, Sir Tom Courtnay & Reece Shearsmith were born in Hull as well as record-breaking solo female pilot Amy Johnson, William Wilberforce(slavery abolitionist) and Roy North-who spent a stint as Basil Brush's sidekick 'Mr Roy' but was originally a radio DJ

**bloke57** · 03-02-2017, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Greenman

Here are a few facts about Hull, named and beginning it's year as City of Culture.

The one thing I know about (Kingston upon) Hull is that it is the only UK city with its own, independent telephone system - KCOM. It has come up in many a quiz evening over the years.

Oh! One more - Mick Ronson, Bowie's magnificent collaborator, came from Hull.

OldSchool47 · 03-02-2017, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by otokonomidori

I reckon it comes from the name of the greatest band of the Sixties - even the Beatles covered their songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoIEMXGT124

OldSchool47 · 03-02-2017, 05:38 PM

Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJyAvtUFFc

**Greenman** · 03-02-2017, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bloke57

The one thing I know about (Kingston upon) Hull is that it is the only UK city with its own, independent telephone system - KCOM. It has come up in many a quiz evening over the years.

Oh! One more - Mick Ronson, Bowie's magnificent collaborator, came from Hull.

I almost forgot Paul Heaton late of The Beautiful South and before that The Housemartins-his album was called London 0 Hull 4 of course.

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