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Music Trivia -> What A Band is Best Known For (aside from their music) -> Index
What are various bands best known for outside of their musical abilities? Kiss for example are best known for their makeup.
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Breast cancer - Kylie Minogue
It's very well known she survived breast cancer and can't get pregnant. There's not indication she wants kids however.
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Being an astrophysics major - Brian May
He's got a PhD in it that he finally got in 2007 and one of the songs he wrote, 39, is about an theory called time dilation. Which is basically the idea that time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light
dayna
Frenching Britney Spears on Stage at the 2003 VMAs - Madonna
Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were on stage at the VMAs. Suddenly, Madonna and Britney were French kissing each other while Christina was watching. You can never tell what these two will do for publicity.
Sheila Oh
Marrying Lisa Bonet - Lenny Kravitz
Lisa Bonet was an actress who played the second oldest child of Cliff Huxtable in "The Cosby Show". Lenny Kravitz was Lisa's first husband (or the one before Jason Mamoa). Obviously, the marriage was rocky to say the least, and lead to a quick divorce. (By the way, Lenny's mother, who was in "The Jeffersons", went by her stage name Roxie Roker.)
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Being Elvis' son - in - law - Michael Jackson
Although his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley lasted only two years, it still counts.
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Comic books - Gerard Way
He's an fine arts major and drew the graphic novels that The Umbrella Academy is based on.
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Enabling the stealing of a street sign - Arkells
They’re from Hamilton, Ontario and they got their name from the street they lived on. Little did they know that this would lead to the repeated stealing of the sign by university students
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Her Parents' Fame - Lucie Arnaz
Her parents, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, were the stars of the 1950s TV show I Love Lucy, one of the most iconic shows of all time. She appeared on her mother's shows Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show and also appeared with her parents on several talk shows.
Brionna Secret
Alcohol abuse, having been raped as a girl - Jessica Simpson
In her autobiography, "Open Book," Jessica Simpson acknowledged both, first, having been repeatedly sexually abused (read: raped) by a female friend when she was a girl (rapes from which she was able to protect her younger sister Ashlee) and, second, having abused alcohol for years afterwards, probably to dull the trauma from which she most likely still suffers even years afterwards.
Parker Gabriel
A relative working in medicine--on television - Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot
When the late Kevin DuBrow, lead singer of Quiet Riot, died in 2007, he left behind, as one of his known survivors, his younger brother Dr. Terrence DuBrow, M.D., a cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon who, and whose partner in their California-based clinic Dr. Paul Nassif, M.D., are observed documentees on the E! Entertainment Television program "Botched."
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Photography - Bryan Adams
He's got an entire site for his pictures, and he did a photography book about wounded veterans in 2021.
Dayna
Being married to Heather Locklear - Richie Sambora
They broke up in 2007, but they did have a daughter together.
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Having prosthetic fingers - Tony Iommi (Black sabbath)
He lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand to an accident in from working in a sheet mental factory as a teenager.
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Having a book title named after a song lyric - Bruce Springsteen
I don't know if it's well - known but Stephen King took the name for The Stand from a line in Jungleland.
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His teeth - Freddie Mercury
Despite being called "Bucky" as a child due to being born with extra teeth that contributed to his famous overbite, he never actually got them removed throughout his life out of fear it would affect his vocal range
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Being a football fan - Jon Bon Jovi
Jon is a well - known fan of the Patriots and has been seen at one a fame many times.
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Six Continent Tour - Backstreet Boys
In 2000 The Backstreet Boys embarked on the short tour of 6 continents, the US, Norway, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, and back to the U.S.
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Being the nephew of Dr. Phil - Tim McGraw
Tim's uncle is famed TV psychoanalyst Dr. Phil McGraw.
Lynnetta Lore
Being the son of a MLB player - Tim McGraw
His father was famous baseball pitcher Tug McGraw, who died of a brain tumor on January 5, 2004.
Lynnetta Lore
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