lies, rumors, and erroneous information spread about musicians at your school as a wee thing

Bob Mortimer was chatting to a bloke I now recognise as Sean Hughes, upstairs in the 'restaurant'. I had to make the girl I was with promise not to try to shag him if I told her where they were, when I told her...

OK then, how about this one:

Dave Gahan once (early 80's) gave me £20 to put his coat on and run out of the front of Robot in the Kings Road, effectively acting as a decoy so he could escape a crowd of fans (I was about the same height / build / colouring as him and had a similar haircut in those days).

elton john
rod stewart
marc almond
billy idol
fine young canibals
one of Bros.
'lil kim
ricky martin
jewel
Lil Kim
Jimmy Sommerville

Also Mark, I know a certain UK-based, US-born female music writer who shagged Gary Numan (scary scary scary and no, it wasn't me)

(We talking a book published?)

Not quite, but in his autobiography the Boy specifically named Rossdale as being the latest Sweet Young Thing of a friend of his, talked about meeting Rossdale for the first time etc. Rossdale has spent the rest of his time trying to pretend that didn't happen and getting an arranged marriage set up with a labelmate oh dear did I say that clearly that was my mistake I shouldn't spread such gossip around oh now.

What about Rock Stars Who Aren't Realy Dead:
-Elvis
-2pac (2pac is always still alive, but Biggie remains dead, weird, that.)
-Jim Morrison

This actually was true of (early 20th c Ital poet) Gabriele d'Annunzio.

Also, I heard that prince had removed a rib so he could auto-fellate. I never heard no stomach pump stories though.

i remember, very clearly, sitting on my neighbors couch and MTV news came on. it was on mtv news, i assume they verify their sources? or maybe i assume wrongly. and even said, had her stomach pumped of whatever amount of semen. that's the only thing i don't remember.

http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/10cc.jpg

.... well, they obviously didn't call him "Creme" for nothing

and it was FRANK ZAPPA who was rumored to have eaten shit whilst onstage w/ alice cooper.

Probably true. Anyway, he would have appreciated it. But curious sexual behaviours were usual among the fascist intelligentsjia.

Also, I heard that Whitney Houston was Mariah Carey's mother.

And, I admit that as of reading this thread, I thought that the Elvis on the toilet thing was true. Seems like not such a far-fetched time to have a heart attack, actually...

* AC/DC = "Ant-Christ, Devil's Child".

* The old "In The Air Tonight" story about Phil Collins witnessing (from afar) a guy who witnessed a drowning and refused to help, etc, etc. (I remember hearing this one referenced in Eminem's "Stan" a decade later and thinking, "Wow, that story's got legs".)

* The recipient of the belly-full-of-semen was NKTOB's Donnie Wahlberg.