The colloquial phrase “put a sock in it” to tell someone to stop talking has an origin in old Gramophone players — when they needed to muffle the music, people would stick a sock or something soft in the old horned cone speaker.

The legendary Grateful Dead song “He’s Gone” with the lyrics “Steal Your face right off your head” was about Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s father, who had acted as the band’s manager before absconding with some $70,000.

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