Music: Musician Facts, Trivia, Quizzes, Brain Teasers & More

R.I.P., The Purple One.

This trio of blue men truly rock.

There’s a reason Cher had bats on the brain: At the time she wrote the song, she was being considered for a lead role in 'Interview With the Vampire.'

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An American hasn’t won the world’s most prestigious writing prize since 1993.

If you were born in October, you might share a birthday with one of your favorite historical figures—including six U.S. presidents.

The man who gave Looney Tunes their sound was an eccentric electronic music pioneer.

A Kickstarter is turning the only government-authorized alien playlist in history into a vinyl box set.

Digital music has a longer history than you'd expect.

Fats Domino's piano. Mike DelGaudio via Flickr // CC BY 2.0

From Mozart to Motown, celebrate National Piano Month by checking out some of these favored ivories.

And it's made from “everything from farm equipment, children’s toys, kitchen utensils and antique fire arms to chains, cogs, axes and wheels."

American pop group The Monkees performing in an MG sports car, circa 1967.

More than 50 years after its premiere on NBC—and subsequent cancellation following a measly two seasons—The Monkees are still a topic of never-ending fascination.

Dvořák was a bona fide trainspotter.

'Freddiemercury' is leaping through the sky 200 million miles from Earth.

Cash called the retreat “the center of my universe.”

The title was chosen to remind people of Romeo and Juliet, but the star-crossed lovers in Alex Cox's punk drama had worse problems than those teens from Verona.