(While receiving the award on Kerrang for the Video "Helena.") Gerard:"W-We never expected this, there's somebody very special to this whole band that this award needs to go out to, and a, that's me and Mikey's grandma, Elena, who this record was about, and who passed away before it finished. *crowd claps* and a... *raises award above his head* ...this is for her. And i know she can hear us right now, and we- love you."
Cameraman: "So, did you read Ellen DeGeneres's new book?" Frank: "Yeah." Cameraman: "How was it?" Frank: "It made me a lesbian."
Frank: Has goldfinger ever had a flock of mooses advancing on him? It's a terrifying sight. Mikey: That's not the plural of moose, it's moosi. Gerard: F*ck off, it's meese.
Gerard: I don't think this band will ever stop feeling right or good. But when it's the natural time, it should die.
Gerard: Who wouldn't want to catch a guy in a bear suit?
Frank: We just have to watch Mikey and make sure he doesn't put anymore forks in the toaster.
Gerard: People think we're rich vampires.
Gerard: I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.
Gerard: Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
Gerard: Beach Balls at festivals, are the work of the devil!
1st Album:(July 23, 2002) I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love 2nd Album:(June 8, 2004) Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge 3rd Album:(October 2006) The Black Parade
The MCRmy went out to the streets and organized parades before the release of The Black Parade
When My Chemical Romance played the main stage at the 2006 Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival, they suffered a barrage of bottles while performing on stage , but completed their set, encouraging the crowd to boo, hiss and throw more.
To reject their commonly mistaken identity as an "emo" band, Gerard often uses the term "What-else-ya-got-emo" to describe their music style
My Chemical Romance song "Mama" from the album "Black Parade" was used in a promotional commercial for the Sopranos.
When MCR recorded the video to "Im Not Ok (I Promise)" Bob Byrar was not officially the drummer yet
After he left the band, drummer Matt Pelissier became a mechanic.
Despite Gerard and Mikey's Grandmother's name is Elena, the song dedicated to her in "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" is called "Helena". This is because her friends called her Helen, so the two names together (Helen+ Elena) form the title of the song.
They are on the cover of the November 2006 Rock Sound magazine.
On the weekend of Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29, My Chemical Romance had the weekend dedicated to them on the FUSE Network. It was called Chemically Dependent Weekend. During these two days they played MCR videos, showed the making of some of their videos, showed interviews with them, played their performance on 7th Ave. Drop and much more.
Their song "Helena" played in the end credits of House of Wax.
Contrary to circulating rumours the past few months, the title of the band's third CD is not going to be 'The Rise And Fall Of My Chemical Romance' and was never going to be called that. The actual title has been "locked for months. And it's perfect" (interview from Kerrang!)
The artwork featured in Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge is titled as follows: CD cover: Demolition Lovers II CD tray: Just The Way It Goes
Gerard Way designed the artwork for the cover and the inside tray for "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge"
"Under Pressure" was originally by David Bowie and Queen.
Cartoon Network turned down Gerard's cartoon "The Breakfast Monkey" because it was too similar to Aqua Teen Hunger Force, then already in production
Because Gerard wasn't sure he could play guitar and sing at the same time, MCR called Frank Iero to fill in the band's sound.
After witnesing the attacks of September 11. Gerard Way and former drummer, Matt Peliser, wrote "Skylines and Turnstiles"
The room where the video "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" takes place, was painted by both Gerard and Frank. Shortly after that, they got high on the fumes, causing them to get sick.
Cementery Drive, is believed to be about adultery. The story talks about a man having an affair with a married woman, who then kills herself when her husband finds out. Her lover feels guilty about this and he imagines himself meeting her, somehow still alive, in the cementery where she's buried.
Mikey Way is engaged to Alicia Simmons! According to Mikey, they will get married May 12, 2007.
Gerard was once attacked by a bird! It flew straight into his head! He says, "It was the craziest thing that's ever happened to me. The bird just started pecking the heck outta of me."
Ray Toro has been ditched twice by his bandmates at the middle of the night while on tour; both incidents happened while Ray was at the restroom.
Their single, Helena, earned five MTV Music Awards nominations and two Kerrang! Awards.
They are also known as "MCR", "My Chem", and the "The Black Parade"
My Chemical Romance and The Used performed Under Pressure oringinally performed by Queen featuring David Bowie at the end of the $2 bill show and at the Taste of Chaos Tour.
The members of My Chemical Romance are not goths or vampires, they only have one song about vampires.
As for now, Gerard Way is 28, Ray Toro is 28, Mikey Way is 25, Frank Iero is 24, and Bob Bryar is 26
The song Helena is about Mikey and Gerard's grandmother who died two weeks before the band started recording "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge".
My Chemical Romance have been featured in an issue of Kerrang Magazine.
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