Top 10 astounding facts in the history of recorded music

1. The "Happy Birthday" song is still copyrighted within the USA! In Europe the copyright for this song expired in 2016!

2. Blues & rock'n'roll artist Jay Hawkins, best known for the hit "I Put a Spell on You", claimed that he had fathered more than 50 other children with girlfriends and groupies!

3. Celine Dione's recording of the iconic song "My heart will go on" was recorded in just one take, and she never rerecorded it!

4. Elvis Presley in actual reality was a blonde!

5. Tony Iommi, lead guitarist of Black Sabbath, went on to codify the sound of heavy metal, as a direct consequence of being obliged to tune his guitar down such that he could play despite having lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand in an industrial accident at the age of seventeen.

6. Mariah Carey has won several Guiness World Records, including that of having hit the highest note (G7#-) in the entire history of recorded music. Clinically, Mariah’s voice is termed a medical wonder.

7. Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard, continue playing with the band despite having his entire left arm amputated following a car accident on New Year's Eve in 1984. According to the band's lead vocalist Joe Elliot, his one-armed modified playing style is actually superior to his former two-armed drumming.

8. Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon" stayed consecutively on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart for 741 weeks in total, a 14-year run, starting from March 1973 up to 1988.

9. The Beatles managed to take all top five positions of the Billboard's Top One Hundred, in April 4th, 1964. No other act has ever managed to replicated this astounding feat.

10. Since 1882, several music superstars became members of Club 27.