N*E*R*D Facts 1

• #1 Pharrell and Chad were originally better known as The Neptunes, the production team behind, amongst others, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Snoop Dogg.
• #2 N*E*R*D stands for ‘No-one Ever Really Dies’ – the belief that a person’s energy lives on through their soul and therefore is never destroyed.
• #3 Pharrell, Chad and Shae began performing together at high school in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
• #4 Current album, ‘Seeing Sounds’, explores synesthesia – a neurological phenomenon of joint sensory perceptions, thus the seeing of sounds of the album’s title.
• #5 Petrolhead Pharrell’s car collection includes a Ferrari Enzo, a McLaren Mercedes SLR and no less than four Rolls-Royce Phantoms.

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