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4 unusual facts about Sixteen Stone


Sixteen Stone

Released in 1994 through Trauma Records, it boasted numerous successful singles and is widely regarded as the band's most popular album.

When asked why lead singer Gavin Rossdale chose the name "Sixteen Stone" for the name of their album, he said: "Once upon a time there was a lonely man... my friend, who called a phone number advertising a '21-year old Scandinavian beauty, new in town.' When she arrived, she was forty years old and sixteen stone..."

Beck used the same effect in 1996 with a Komondor, another Hungarian dog breed that has similar fur to the Puli, on his album Odelay which looks like a mop jumping a hurdle.

A Puli, a breed of dog with dreadlock-like cords, that has been tossed in the air or is jumping.



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