Did you know?

Leo Fender, inventor of the Stratocaster and Telecaster, couldn’t play the guitar.

John Lennon‘s eyesight was so poor that he was legally blind without his glasses.

Noel Gallagher, Gary Moore and Mark Knopfler write left-handed but play guitar as if right-handers. Coldplay’s Chris Martin plays guitar and draws right-handed, but he writes left-handed. And the world’s most-famous ‘left-handed’ player, Jimi Hendrix, wrote with his right hand.

Kiss’s Gene Simmons can speak Hungarian.

Queen’s multi-millionaire drummer Roger Taylor was once spotted in Guildford’s Sainsbury’s supermarket filling out a National Lottery ticket. Question: why?

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is a keen modern art collector. In 2008 he auctioned his “last Basquiat” for $13.5 million.

Before Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder was the singer in Bad Radio, a progressive funk rock band heavily influenced by early Red Hot Chili Peppers.