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MASCOT MUSINGS

The earliest squirrel species found in the fossil record dates back 40 million years.

It is believed that squirrels originated in North America.

There are ten species of squirrel in the Northern Hemisphere.

There are no squirrels in Australia.

Early spring is the hardest time of year for squirrels in temperate climates, as buried acorns and nuts have sprouted but new sources of food have not yet been produced.

Squirrels may become carnivorous when food gets scarce.

The fur of squirrels from Europe and Central Asia is used for coats, linings, and trimmings. North American squirrel skins are too sparse and coarse for such use.

Flying squirrels only come out at night. This is why they are seldom seen, even though they are widely distributed across North America.

When a squirrel flicks its tail, it is saying, Get away!

Squirrels can run at speeds of up to ten miles per hour.

Squirrels are frequently hit by cars because they use a strategy of darting back and forth to evade a predator.

Unhappily, this often means dodging under the wheels of a vehicle.

SING A SONG

KICKSTART MY HEART

Nikki Sixx began life as Frank Carlton Ferrana Jr.

Sixx, founder and bass player for Mtley Cre, stole his first guitar and used the money he got from selling it to buy his first bass guitar.

Sixx overdosed on heroin several times and claims he wrote the song Kickstart My Heart after being declared dead for two minutes and having an out-of-body experience, before EMTs revived him with a shot of adrenaline to the heart.

THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS...

Prince was called Skipper as a boy.

In 1984, Prince twice had the number one movie (Purple Rain), the number one album (Purple Rain) and the number one single (When Doves Cry and Lets Go Crazy) at the same time, making him the only artist to accomplish the feat.

It was because of Princes 1984 song Darling Nikki off the Purple Rain album that parental advisory stickers began to be placed on albums. Tipper Gore, wife of future Vice President Al Gore, heard her twelve-year-old daughter singing the songs sexually explicit lyrics and was prompted to form the Parents Music Resource Center.

In 1994, following a dispute with Warner Bros. over the rights to his name, Prince changed it to an unpronounceable symbol which became known as Love Symbol #2.

Prince became a Jehovahs Witness in 2001 and occasionally knocks on peoples doors to proselytize.

Prince was voted Worlds Sexiest Vegan by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2006.

OLD SONGS

Neil Diamonds first royalty check was for seventy-three cents, for the single Solitary Man.

Paul Anka made $100 each time the theme song played on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Anka had written the song, called Toot Sweet, in 1959. The show ran five nights a week for thirty-two years, netting Anka $832,000 for a recycled song.

Merv Griffins estate has earned $70 million in royalties, to date, for the Jeopardy! theme song, which he wrote.

OZZFEST

The first Black Sabbath album was recorded in eight hours for $1,200.

Sharon Osbournes father, Don Arden, managed Black Sabbath. When the group dumped her husband Ozzy, Sharon took over and helped propel him to solo stardom. Her father was so resentful that the two didnt speak for twenty years.

Sharon launched the annual Ozzfest music festival in 1996, after the Lollapalooza music festival refused to allow Ozzy to perform.

In 1989, Ozzy choked Sharon until she passed out, and threatened to kill her. He was charged with making threats, but Sharon later dropped the case.

In 2007, Christina Aguilera bought the Osbournes mansion, which was featured on their reality TV show, because she really liked the kitchen.

BEATLEMANIA

The Beatles 1966 Yesterday and Today album, also known as the Butcher Album, originally had a cover photo of the band holding bloody meat and dismembered baby dolls, to highlight the absurdity of Beatlemania. Public reaction was so negative that the record company quickly glued new photos on the albums.

Come Together was written in 1969 by John Lennon for Timothy Learys California gubernatorial bid against Ronald Reagan. Leary dropped out of the race in 1970 after he was sent to prison for possession of marijuana.

In 1973, John Lennon was sued by the publisher of Chuck Berrys song You Cant Catch Me. Come Together was musically similar and shared some of the same lyrics. They settled out of court.

John Lennon wrote Everybodys Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey about how everybody else was paranoid except him and his wife, Yoko Ono. Monkey was his pet name for her.

The Beatles 1964 single I Feel Fine was the first rock-and-roll song to use feedback on an album. It was created when Paul McCartney held his bass up to his amp. (Earlier blues guitarists had also used the effect.)

The lyrics to Golden Slumbers come from a seventeenth-century lullaby poem by Thomas Dekker.

The street signs on Liverpools Penny Lane were stolen so frequently after the Beatles wrote Penny Lane that the city resorted to simply painting the street name on buildings.

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first album to have all the lyrics to the songs printed on the outside of the cover.

In 2000, George Harrison was stabbed by an intruder in his home and suffered a collapsed lung. His wife, Olivia, hit the guy over the head with a lamp, and his son, Dhani, held him until police arrived to arrest him.

The song title A Hard Days Night came from an expression that Ringo Starr used.

Paul McCartneys 1968 song Blackbird was about the civil rights movement unfolding in the United States at the time.

In Eleanor Rigby, the vicar was originally going to be called Father McCartney, but Paul thought that would bother his dad, so he picked the name McKenzie out of the telephone directory.

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