Forgive the heading, I ran into the character limit

I've mentioned before about rock music being my probably longest held and favorite hobby and pastime. I've been in bands, have performed to audiences small to large (maybe 15-500), and enjoy it tremendously. I have a large collection and listen at least a little every day. I have my entire collection in my car (high quality ripped files on thumb drives, about 450GB of files.)

My preferences are narrow, mostly limited to late 50s blues and rock roots to rock of most styles to perhaps early 1990s. There are some exceptions on on either side of the time range, like some of the pioneering blues artists of the 20s-30s, though I'm not a big fan of the pure blues segment of rock and roll. But I like punk, rock and roll, instrumental surf and guitar music, British invasion, beach music (the Pacific Coast kind, not the mid-Atlantic kind), ska, country rock (but not country), folk rock, the folk music revival starting in the mid to late 1950s, and more.

As with my interest in other subjects, my music interest has led me to learn many tidbits of little known facts, trivia, and the like about some performers, some groups, some songs, and some styles. None of which are useful for anything at all other than the enjoyment and fun of sharing with others and trade tales. Friends and others I've mentioned some to, aside from former bandmates who obviously have a similar interest in music as I do, seem to enjoy them too.

I thought sharing some of these tidbits would make for an interesting thread. I would seed it (maybe 15 or so items come to mind to share) but I wouldn't want to interfere with the popular Friday/Weekend music thread. So I'll do it maybe early next week. Same format as the Friday thread using YouTube links. Everyone is welcome to participate. Because the topic is curiosities, please explain why you chose to contribute what you did.

Here are some spoilers about some of the things I will mention. They're arcane enough that I doubt any will give away what I will be mentioning.

Lesser known things and straightened out misconceptions about:

One well known instrument of one of the Beatles that had a big problem

Bob Dylan

Harry Nilsson

Buffalo Springfield

Al Kooper

The Title song of a popular movie written collaboratively in a way but not with the two otherwise unaffiliated artists working together in a normal sense.

One very popular/successful artist who wound up being managed by and having recordings produced by another popular artist from a different country. The second person had lived in the same house for two years with another popular artist when that third person was just becoming famous. They became good friends and the third person went on to have more success and fame than the first two mentioned. And provided songs he'd written for his own possible use, to the second person for him to record.

What interesting and clever marketing technique was used by a songwriter who was having trouble getting air time for songs he'd written and had recorded?

A Supergroup of the late 60s that had an insurmountable problem.

What two singers, contemporary singer/songwriters of a similar style, might the public have thought were friendly with one another but in fact had a very toxic relationship and were not on speaking terms?

What successful singer (unaffiliated with a band) was the inspiration for a song written by another person who's ALWAYS been affiliated with a band, and for which the name of the first person appears in the title of the song?

What member of a successful band had never been in a successful band before joining that group and was never successful as an individual performer or in another band afterwards? (This band was not prolific but it's one of my favorites, they were/are really good. And unique.)

What band appeared at Woodstock and had no guitar player. I'm not saying didn't feature a guitar player, I mean, had none. No, I don't mean Ravi Shankar.

What song was composed by Prince but given by him to an all-female band, for which it was a major hit. The song is very much NOT immediately identifiable as similar to most of his other great work.

What band who wrote and performed what at the time was considered typical Southern California music, was sued by a legendary, trailblazing Black artist for plagiarism? And who, in another song, copied the opening guitar riff of another of the second guy's songs but there was no action taken over it?

No responses to these teasers please. I'm not asking questions, just mentioned these to get you thinking about what you may want to offer up.

And maybe more.