Longest lasting music misinformation?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

I just found out Don McLean's song "Vincent" is NOT called "Starry Starry Night".

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er" is not....

pronounced "Dye ur make ur," it's pronounced "Jah Mayka," and is the punch line to an ancient British dialect joke about Jamaica. I believe the joke is something like:

"So the wife and I went to an island in the Caribbean for holiday."

"D'yer Mak'er?" ("Jamaica?")

"No, she went quite willingly."

Apparently the reference is to the attempted reggae beat of the song.

There's more, let me think of some....

[woofless]

6. Man # 1 "I just got back from the wars in Africa."

Man #2 "Zulu's?"

Man #1 "No, we won."

[frylock]

7. i just got back from visiting my brother in alaska..

Nome?
Yeah, I know him, he's my brother!

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Okay, here's some more...

Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is NOT about watching a friend drown and not doing anything about it. It is about his messy divorce and his conflicted feelings about said divorce.

Paul McCartney is NOT dead. His muse is.

Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" is NOT called "Sunshiney Day." I don't know how many people I've heard personally refer to this song as "Sunshiney Day." Lots.

I'll think of more, but in the meantime, check out www.snopes.com under the "MUsic" section for more stuff like this.

[pinkpops]

3. pancho and lefty

not about pancho villa

[Character Assassin]

4. Romeo Void's "Never Say Never", containing the immortal lyric

"I might like you better if we slept together" is actually about incest, murder, homelessness, not simply about fucking.

[liberalmuse]

5. 'Sunshine On My Shoulder'

was not about John Denver's struggle with uppers. 'Puff the Magic Dragon' is not about marijuana, and neither is 'Proud Mary'. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was a song John Lennon wrote for Julian, a nursery rhyme, if you will. It was not about LSD, chuh!

[Philostopher]

8. I always thought Patti Smith wrote 'Because The Night'

And Springsteen's version was a cover. Only recently did I find out that they wrote the song together, back when they were both playing the same clubs in New York City.

[salin]

9. Norwegian Wood

is neither about teak or white pine ...
nor is it unintentional gibberish in the song...

hear the refrain... "Knowing she would"... and the song makes sense... but back then, for the censors... insert and title the song: Norwegian Wood.

[Obamarama]

10. Silent Night....

It's probably because I'm Jewish and was unfamiliar with the Christmas carols my gentile friends would sing, but for the longest time as a child I thought they were singing "Sleep in heaven, eat peas..."