Top Incredible Facts in Music History

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| The Beatles songs have made it to the number one spot on both the American and British charts. One of their first hits was I Want to Hold Your Hand. And to add onto the fact, they were the first musical artist to have a number one hit song that is over 7 minutes, Hey Jude.

| The Beatles sold over a billion records

More than double Michael Jackson's sales total, even if you add-in the Jackson Five. Only Elvis Presley is close to this number.

| Hans Zimmer, the composer/producer for over 150 movies, including The Lion King, Gladiator, all Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Pearl Harbor, Rush, Inception, the Dark Knight, etc. had only 2 weeks of formal music education, piano lessons as a child.

| Famed jazz guitarist Djanho Reinhardt was in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Despite being a gypsy, handicapped, a player of a banned music style, and a known friend of blacks and Jews, the Germans left him alone because some higher Nazi officers were huge fans of his music.

| Elvis Presley Originally had Blonde Hair

He use hair dye and and dark gel to get it to the shade of black that he liked when he began to grow up through the 40's and 50's

| Beethoven won a sight reading piano competition by turning his sheet music upside down, playing it, then improvising on one of its theme for thirty minutes. His opponent, Daniel Steibelt, never returned to challenge him again.

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