The first black woman ever to be the cover star of Rolling Stone was Tina Turner.

Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar, an island in Tanzania off the east coast of Africa.

Bob Dylan is thought to be the only person in history to have won an Oscar, a Grammy and a Nobel Prize. He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

For one week in 1964, the Beatles held all five slots on the Billboard 100.

On the cover of the Beatles’ album, Help, the Fab Four are each making a different semaphore letter. Despite many people presuming they are spelling H-E-L-P, the letters they are actually producing read  N-U-J-V.

The Beach Boys were originally called “The Pendletones.”

Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, the mother of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees.

The first song David Bowie ever recorded was called “I Never Dreamed,” in 1963. It was long presumed to have been lost, until he discovered it stored in a breadbox when he was moving to a different house in the 1990s.