Author Dan Brown Once Wrote a Song About Phone Sex (Among Other Things)
Yes, I mean the same Dan Brown who wrote The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, The Lost Symbol and Inferno, which is out this week.
But before he began to grace with his fact-filled but leaden prose, Brown was a wannabe pop star. His first attempt was as a children’s artist when he recorded and self-released a cassette called SynthAnimals which featured such classics as “Happy Frogs” and “Suzuki Elephants.” It sold a few hundred copies at best.
Then he changed gears, self-released an adult contemporary-ish record called Perspective. No one cared about that one, either. That was followed by a self-titled CD in 1993 which included this non-hit ode to phone sex called “976-LOVE.”
Around the same time that Dan Brown came out, he decided that he’d rather like thrillers. He’s now sold over 200 million books and has Tom Hanks’ home phone number.
(Via AV Club, among others.)
