The off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, opened on May 3, 1960 and finally closed on January 13, 2002, having been performed a record 17,162 times at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, Greenwich Village, New York.

The original Village People line-up was recruited via an advert that read "Macho types wanted: must have moustache". The group scored a number of disco and dance hits, including "Macho Man", "In the Navy", and their greatest hit, "Y.M.C.A.".

On 5 August 1989, the largest game of musical chairs began with 8,238 participants at the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore. Three and a half hours later, the game ended with the lucky 15-year-old winner Xu Chong Wei on the last remaining chair.

Elvis Presley holds the record with 77 Top 10 hits.

Johnny Cash's estate was approached by an advertising company seeking permission to use Ring Of Fire in an ad for hemorrhoid cream. The request was refused.

The most instruments (different kinds) used in a single piece of music was 315 and was achieved by Rupam Sarmah and his team, performing a symphony at Jorhat Sports Complex, Assam, India, on 24 February 2013.

In 1981, Prince formed a side project band called The Time. The band released four albums between 1981 and 1990, with Prince writing and performing most of the instrumentation and backing vocals (sometimes credited under the pseudonyms "Jamie Starr" or "The Starr Company"), with lead vocals by Morris Day.

Originally named Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem, the Red Hot Chili Peppers first incarnation featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons, alongside Anthony Kiedis and Flea.

David Bowie was never inducted into the short-loved UK Music Hall of Fame. The five founding members were: Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Madonna, and U2.

Andy White, the drummer who played on the definitive version of The Beatles' Love Me Do, never earned more than his original session fee of £7 from the track.