General "Did you Know?"s

[Psychospacecow]

The only band whose name to start with Z to have a number one hit song in the U.S. was a one hit wonder. They were a duo from Nebraska by the name of Zager and Evans, and in 1969 became famous for their song "In The Year 2525". The song is also odd because they are the only band to release a song that went to number 1 in both the US and UK without ever reaching the top 100 ever again in either country. The released multiple singles and 4 more albums after their big hit also, they just were never able to chart again.

The song "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel was a thorn in the side of the band Genesis. It kicked their song "Invisible Touch" off the top spot on the Billboard hot 100. It also took music video of the year at the Grammys, beating out the Genesis video "Land of Confusion". What is funnier is the fact Peter Gabriel was the original lead singer of Genesis.

The song "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is an entirely true story from a time the band was almost killed in a large casino fire watching Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention play a show (Thus the line: "Frank Zappa and the Mothers, they had the best place around"). Someone in the audience shot a flare gun that embedded in the ceiling, starting the fire ("Some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground.") The song also mentions a hero of the day who saved multiple lives from the rubble despite being covered in burns himself named Claude Nobbs ("That funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground.") The band had planned on recording at the casino, but finished recording the album in a nearby abandoned hotel ("We ended up at the Grand Hotel, it was empty, cold and damp")

Does ZZ Top count as a counter argument?
Despite not selling as many copies as Eliminator, 1985's Afterburner was still as successful commercially, becoming their highest-charting album,[12] and racking up sales of 5 million units.[8] All of the singles from Afterburner were Top 40 hits, with two hitting No.1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Number 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, the pop charts if you will. ZZ Top has never had a number 1 on it. Zager and Evans did. The also topped the pop charts in the UK at the exact same time, a very rare feat that ZZ Top has also never done. But, then again, ZZ Top is defintly more than a 1 hit wonder. But then again, ZZ Top never released songs about rapists trying to commit suicide in prison by stabbing himself into a wall or how the human race will become totally reliant on machines, have they?

Geez man, I don't know if its how I'm reading this, but why so aggressive? I ain't a big music guy so I wasn't sure and I was asking a question..