― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
elton johnrod stewartmarc almondbilly idolfine young canibalsone of Bros.'lil kimricky martinjewelLil KimJimmy Sommerville
― snowballing, Friday, 5 March 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
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)
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
(We talking a book published?)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Will (will), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
What about Rock Stars Who Aren't Realy Dead:-Elvis-2pac (2pac is always still alive, but Biggie remains dead, weird, that.)-Jim Morrison
― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
― jonviachicago, Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
This actually was true of (early 20th c Ital poet) Gabriele d'Annunzio.
― E. Pluribus Unum, Sunday, 7 March 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link
Also, I heard that prince had removed a rib so he could auto-fellate. I never heard no stomach pump stories though.
― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Jamie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― sylvia, Friday, 19 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/10cc.jpg
.... well, they obviously didn't call him "Creme" for nothing
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
and it was FRANK ZAPPA who was rumored to have eaten shit whilst onstage w/ alice cooper.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 17 July 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Guymauve (Guymauve), Saturday, 17 July 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Probably true. Anyway, he would have appreciated it. But curious sexual behaviours were usual among the fascist intelligentsjia.
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Saturday, 17 July 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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...
― wetmink (wetmink), Saturday, 17 July 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― La Camilla Henemark, Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 12 February 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link
* 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.
― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
"bowie is biosexual" (note spelling)
Various rumours about punk bands (all unnamed, "I heard it from my brother in London") went the rounds in '76/'77:
that there was a band who killed themselves en masse on stage during a gig.
that there was a band who wouldn't go onstage unless they all had boners.
that the singer from a punk band murdered an audience member mid-set with a chainsaw.
(most weirdly) that the boomtown rats(!) had a video in which domestic cats were electrocuted during the course of the song (!!! I know!! what the fuck!!)
I have no idea where any of this came from, unless one of my peers had a really fucked imagination/soh. We believed it all though. (we were, like, 12)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link