Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bassist Norman Owens in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Owens survived — but was never paid for the hospital bill. “It was just one of them things,” Lewis later quipped.

In a strange coincidence, Paul McCartney judged a dance contest on the show “Ready Steady Go” in 1963, crowning a young “Melanie Coe” the winner. Four years later, he was inspired to write “She’s Leaving Home” after reading a newspaper story of a girl who disappeared from home — unknown to McCartney, it was the same Melanie Coe.

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