10 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries In Music

2. Who Is Randy Fitzsimmons?

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If you don't know who The Hives are, they're a Swedish rock band that have released five albums over their career and rose to prominence in the early 2000s. They're generally considered one of the best live rock bands still touring and have had success with singles like Main Offender, Walk Idiot Walk and Hate To Say I Told You So.

How the band actually formed, however, is... strange, to say the least. The band supposedly came together in 1993 under the guidance of a mysterious man named Randy Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons gave each of the members a letter asking them to be a part of a musical project; subsequently becoming the group's manager and one of their main songwriters.

Despite all of this, nobody has any idea who the man is, nor has anybody actually seen him. Nevertheless the band insists that he played and continues to play a significant role in their success. So who exactly is Randy Fitzsimmons? Is he a sort of musical Nick Fury, uniting bands while remaining firmly in the shadows? It's impossible to know.

 
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