This thread does not exist already? (That's not the first one btw)
1. In 1974 whilst still serving members of The Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie wrote the music for what would become Livin' La Vida Loca many years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Oddie
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago)
okay, that whole 'music' section in that bill oddie page is amazing.
― Ste, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago)
The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago)
It's a close cousin of that thread, sure.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago)
I think Tom E and I may have been responsible for the genesis of that Livin' La Vida Loca thing*, although AFAIK neither of us were responsible for that edit.
*ie, we told the Lex in the pub, he believed it, and it snowballed into an extravagant lie about Bill Oddie's pop career.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago)
This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago)
The opening sequence featured live tarantulas: Alfred Molina had to have many put on him, but they did not move until a female was placed there. Molina found the experience creepy.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago)