Fun Facts: Rock & Roll

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

• In 1970, Neal Schon was fifteen years old and had two job offers, one was to join Santana and the second was to go to England and play with Derek & the Dominoes.
• When Woodstock started, Yogi Bhajan asked the audience to “meditate for one minute for brotherhood” to which a voice in the crowd screamed out: “Fuck you. Let’s boogie.”
• Here’s the translation of the lyric in The Doors song “Five To One” that says “Five to one, one to five”: the first part is the preferred ratio for cutting heroin and the second part are the odds when playing Russian roulette.

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