Even rockstars have to start somewhere. Are these stories about U2 before they were rockstars TRUE or FALSE? Leave your answers in the comments!

1) Bono was born Paul Hewson.

2) His father described him a “bloody exasperating child.”

3) Young Bono was so often in trouble, he was called “the Antichrist” by his friends.

 4) When he was three years old, his astonished parents watched as Bono gently played with honey bees without getting stung.

 5) U2 was born in Dublin, Ireland after a 14-year-old Larry Mullen tacked a “Musicians Wanted” poster to his school message board.

6) The band was known as “Feedback” and “The Hype” before they settled on U2.

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It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock ‘n’ roll. Are these stories about AC/DC before they were rockstars TRUE or FALSE? Leave your answers in the comments!

1. Australia’s AC/DC was founded by two Scottish brothers, Angus and Malcolm Young.
2. There were nine siblings in the Young family.
3. Angus began learning the guitar at five years old, practicing on a banjo he’d re-strung like a guitar.
4. Angus’ sister Margaret suggested he wear a school boy uniform on stage, because he didn’t like school.
5. Before the uniform became his trademark, Angus performed dressed as Spider Man and in a gorilla costume.
6. Margaret also suggested the band’s name, which stands for Alternating Current/Direct Current, after she read it on their sister’s sewing machine.

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Future Rock God Freddie Mercury

Are the following statements true or false? Leave your answers in the comments below! We’ll put up the answers at the end of the week.

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1. Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on the island of Zanzibar.
2. When he was ten, Freddie became a table tennis champion at his boarding school.
   

   Young Freddie at School

3. Freddie, an art school grad, designed Queen’s logo based on the band’s zodiac signs– fairies to represent himself, a Virgo, two lions for Leos Roger and John, and a crab for Brian, a Cancer.
4. Brian May’s signature guitar, called “Red Special,” was hand built by the young guitarist and his engineer father in 1963.  
5. Brian May, who’d abandoned his doctoral thesis in astrophysics to become a guitarist, finally earned his PhD in 2007, 36 years after he’d started his thesis. In 2008 Dr. May was named Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
6. Roger Taylor’s first band was called the “Bubblingover Boys.”
   

   Roger Taylor as a Young Lad

7. John Deacon hoped to work in electronics when he grew up.

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