stackyFACTSIt turns out a bunch of dudes headbanging in a beat-up AMC Pacer holds immense cultural power. Freddie Mercury gave Mike Myers his blessing shortly before passing away, and the iconic movie scene rocketed the 1975 operatic rock anthem right back to number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Culture & entertainment →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Oasis turned down the opportunity to write and perform the theme song for the iconic film Trainspotting because Noel Gallagher literally thought the movie was…
Discover more
Why do modern movie trailers almost always feature a slow, creepy piano cover of an upbeat pop song?
Discover more
Smash Mouth originally refused to let DreamWorks use their hit song All Star in Shrek, because the band felt that being associated with an animated movie…
Discover more
Twilight's iconic baseball scene features the song Supermassive Black Hole by Muse entirely because author Stephenie Meyer aggressively demanded her favorite…
Discover more
Executives had absolutely zero faith in a feature-length Saturday Night Live sketch about two metalheads broadcasting from a basement. Paramount essentially…
Discover more
Studio executives possess an almost supernatural ability to fundamentally misunderstand the art they are paying for. When composer Nino Rota presented the…
Discover more