When "stairway to heaven" is played backward you can hear the phrase "oh here's to my sweet satan..the one who's little path would make me sad, whose power is satan..he'll give you give you 666 there was a little toolshed where he would make us suffer, sad in the part of "if there's a bustle...

The beach boys "Pet sounds" is called this because of an argument amongst band mates. Mike love when showed the material said to band mate Brian Wilson "Who the hells gunna listen to this, the ears of a dog?"

"Smells like teen spirit" was first a slogan for a deodorant company before it later became the title of one of the most famous 90's alternative rock songs.

Malcom Young used to play the solos for ACDC until one day he told his brother Angus, "You do them, cuz they keep my drinking hand busy."

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident in the mid 80's. He decided to keep trying and relearned how to play with only one arm and a few programmed drum lines with his feet."

Elton Johns real name is "Reginald Dwight"

"Sunday Bloody Sunday" originally started with the phrase "Don't talk to me about the rights of the IRA" but was changed to "I can't believe the news today" U2 was afraid that their peace calling would be misunderstood.

Black Sabbath's guitarist, Tony Iommi, lost part of two fingers in a "work accident", and it seemed the band was over. However, he managed to continue playing using a device which made his two stump fingers "longer", and tuning the guitar three steps down in order to loosen the strings and bend them more easily. The first song he made this way he titled "Iron Man"

Pink Floyds "Shine on you crazy diamond" was written for old frontman Syd Barret after he was kicked out of the band due to his heavy LSD use and schizophrenia.

When the "Sex Pistols" got banned from almost all of the UK they began touring under the name SPOT "Sex Pistols On Tour"

James Hetfield got the idea for "Nothing Else Matters" one day he was talking on the phone and with his free hand strummed the strings in a particular order. He hung up and inmediately started working on the song.

Pink Floyds original name was "Sigma 6"

Jim Morrison got the bands name from the Aldous Huxley book "The doors of perception."

Slash once overdosed on heroine and alcohol in a hotel lobby after a show, was found a few hours later by some hotel staff. He was brought to the hospital where pronounced dead for 6 minutes then shocked back to life. He then left the hospital the next day and shot up.

The helicopter crash that killed the legend Stevie Ray Vaughan was supposed to be Eric Claptons seat, Clapton called Vaughan telling him to go ahead and take the flight to the show, that he would arrive later on.

In the 50's Little Richard kicked Jimi Hendrix out of the band because he said Jimi was stealing all of the spot light from him.

The beatles "Yesterday" first appeared in 1965. By 1967, there were 466 versions of the song. Nowadays there are more than 4000 versions.

At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

Eddie Van Halen plays the guitar solo in the middle of Michael Jackson's Beat It.

Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.

"Layla" was written by Eric Clapton to steal George Harrison's wife, Patty Boid.

In 1970 Jimi Hendrix opened the doors to his studio "Electric Lady" to this day it has been left decorated the way Jimi had it. Footsteps can be heard roaming the rooms and every artist who records there says Jimi's spirit is in there because Magic can be felt in the air.

Jimi created "Little Wing" in only 145 seconds! that's only two minutes and a half! pretty much the same as the song's lenght!

Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" LP was originally released in blue plastic shrink wrap you could not see the cover unless you bought it.

If the song "Empty Spaces" from "The Wall" is played backwards, you can hear the phrase "You have now discovered the secret message of Rock 'N Roll...please write".