60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music 2022 Edition

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 5 a.m.

b'Well, it\\u2019s that time again...another year is almost at an end\\u2014and once again, we have been subjected to the whims of the universe and human stupidity through 2022...\\nIt got better with covid but then we have the war in Ukraine...politics are more polarized than ever no matter where you go...social media is still making us stupider...and try as he might to leave the planet, Elon Musk is still here...\\nWhen it comes to the world of music, we lost Taylor Hawkins, Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode, Paul Ryder of The Happy Mondays, Mark Lanegan, Dallas Good of The Sadies, Meat Loaf, Ronnie Hawkins, Coolio, Olivia Newton-John, and Ronnie Spector, among others...\\nIt\\u2019s still hard to make a living from streaming, artists are getting burned out on the road, and inflation is killing everyone...\\nThat\\u2019s a lot to deal with...here\\u2019s hoping that 2023 will be better...we gotta think that because otherwise, we\\u2019d go crazy...\\nThis is also the time of year I try to clean up the home office where I do all my \\u201congoing history\\u201d research and writing and production...I\\u2019m always looking for interesting and cool stuff to talk about when it comes to anything related to music...when I have enough material on a particular subject, I can write a new episode...\\nBut there\\u2019s also a lot of orphaned material\\u2014research that has gone unused because I couldn\\u2019t find a place for it for whatever reason...it would be a shame for all this knowledge and trivia and factoids to go to waste, so it\\u2019s time for the annual purge...\\nSo watch out...a lot of information is about to dumped on your...this is the 2022 edition of 60 mind-blowing facts about music...\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'