- Before he hired Bryan MacLean as a guitarist for Love, the position was held by none other than Bobby Beausoleil who was later a driving force in the Charles Manson murders.
- Got the inspiration to cover the Hal David / Burt Bacharach song "My Little Red Book" while watching What's New Pussycat (1965). The tune was Love's first hit on the charts and also served as the opening track to their debut album.
- In 1966 he and his band Love were the first rock band ever signed to Elektra Records.
- Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of Lee and his band Love. When Hendrix was found deceased, in his record collection was a copy of Love's second album "Da Capo" from 1967.
- Was to form a group called Band-Aid in 1971 with Jimi Hendrix, Steve Winwood and African percussionist Rebop Kwakabooah. Hendrix's death scuttled those plans.
- Credited with having written the first punk rock song titled "7&7 Is", which appears on Love's "Da Capo" album in 1967. However, he was less than thrilled with the term "punk", as many rockers from his era and even into the 1970s tend to feel the same way.
- Gave Jimi Hendrix his first paying gig. He produced a song for Rosa Lee Brooks titled "My Diary" on which Hendrix was hired to play guitar.
- Recorded four solo albums, with only two seeing release--"Vindicator" from 1972, and "Arthur Lee" from 1981. His second solo album was 1973's "Black Beauty" and was produced by Paul A. Rothchild for Buffalo Records, while the third was 1977's unreleased "More Changes" for the E.X. Pression label.
- Started going bald around age 23 when he fell asleep in a bathtub with a hair straightening chemical in his hair. He began wearing wigs throughout the 1970s and 1980s into the early 1990s.
- In May 2006 he became the first adult in Tennessee to receive a stem cell transplant. He received it to aid him in his battle with leukemia.
- He and the rest of Love lived in a home nicknamed "The Castle", which was then owned by John Phillip Law.
- Was instrumental in The Doors having been signed to Elektra Records. Elektra founder Jac Holzman had to be persuaded more than once by Lee after not being impressed by Jim Morrison and company.
- Attended the famous Dorsey High School in Los Angeles.
- Syd Barrett cited Love as being a major influence on Pink Floyd and one of the main reasons the group formed in the first place.
- Before co-founding Love with Johnny Echols, the two were in a soul group called The American Four. Their 45s are considered very rare.
- One of his most famous fans is Robert Plant, who has been known in the past to cover many of Love's songs during live performances. Plant has even stated how at one point he was not sure he wanted to meet Lee due to his reputation of being somewhat difficult.
- Mazzy Star covered the song "Five String Serenade" for their platinum album "So Tonight That I Might See", which inevitably made Love's obscure 1992 album (which would later be re-issued and re-titled as "Five String Serenade") Lee's most profitable venture. "Five String Serenade" was originally released on the French label then known as New Rose.
- Singer/songwriter Ben Harper claims to have used Love's legendary "Forever Changes" album as one of his main inspirations for his 2003 release "Diamonds On the Inside".
- In 1973 he recorded a solo album titled "Black Beaut"y for Buffalo Records. The label was owned by Michael Butler, who at the time also owned the rights to the musical "Hair". The album to date is unreleased and available only as a bootleg.
- According to "The Memphis Commercial Appeal", he was the very first adult in Tennessee to undergo a bone marrow transplant using stem cells from an umbilical cord.
- During a break between sets at one of their first shows in late 1964, a fistfight broke out in a parking lot between Lee and John Fleckenstein, the original bass player for what would become the band Love. Although Fleckenstein was a football star at Hollywood High School, Lee put him down in two punches. The band was known then as The American Four, then the Grass Roots, but Lee had to change the name again when The Grass Roots began to have hit records. Lee and Fleckenstein had a tenuous relationship before Fleckenstein left the band and joined The Standells in early 1967. Both ended up dying from leukemia.
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