Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Leeds.
My name is Dan Schreiber and please welcome to the stage it's Anna Czizinski, James Harkin and Andy Murray.
And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is my fact.
My fact this week is that Tchaikovsky used to hold his head when conducting because he was afraid it would fall off.
So this is apparently he was he used to get so nervous when he was going on stage and there was so much going on in his head that he genuinely thought no this is definitely going to fly off halfway through the game so he would sit there or stand there rather and have his hand just resting.
Yeah I thought that it wasn't true and I went on the internet and a few people said
that they thought it wasn't true but then I found one of his best friends actually said that he did do this so.
Although, lest you trust Dan too far, when you first told this to me last week and he told me where you'd read it,
it was in a book of fiction wasn't it?
It was in a movie called Still Crazy which stars Bill Nighy and Billy Connolly and he said that.
But yeah so turns out a lot of people do say that it might not be true and they only say it
because Tchaikovsky is one of those guys where people love to build myths around him for some reason and create stories about him and that was one possibly but as James says we found a source.
Well he was a massive star wasn't he?
He was one of those classical musicians in the 19th century that was the equivalent of what's a famous band?
Justin Bieber of his day.
The Justin Bieber of his day,
yeah when he went to America to perform a few performances in New York people used to cut out pictures of his face in newspapers and send them to him and say please sign this which is really creepy but whatever.
God for a guy who thinks his head's going to fall off as well to get out.