Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 When David Lee Roth left Van Halen, Eddie offered the role of lead singer to Patty Smyth (then with Scandal).  She declined. (She also hated the video for The Warrior!)

 Patrick Hamilton, the playwright and novelist responsible for giving us the verb 'to gaslight.'

Hume Cronyn was 74. Jack Gilford and Don Ameche were both 77. Wilfred Brimley was only 49 when Ron Howard cast him in the film.

 Dame Thora Hird was Mel Torme's mother-in-law.   

  Ribena takes its name from the Latin for the black currant, Ribes nigrum.

 

Heavy metal, death metal, black metal, symphonic metal, gothic metal,  thrash metal, speed metal,  melodic death metal, grindcore, metalcore, blackened death metal,  deathgrind, goregrind, technical death metal... Artists include Immolation,  Diabolique, Vile, Hellish Outcast, Incantation, Abhorrence, Deranged, Exhumed, Aborted, Destructor, General Surgery, Aborted, Demise, Abscess, Hate, Bloodjinn, Anorexia Nervosa, Betraying the Martyrs, Luciferion, Armageddon, Crystal Viper, Crest of Darkness, Grief of Emerald, Psychedelic Witchcraft, Theory in Practice, Triumphator, and of course...Ultra Vomit. And the over the top, Rock forever, skull on fire name of the record label? Listenable Records.