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

(Amount of cum varies by credulity of audience.)

There's also the varying number of men that the cum came from. I heard anywhere from seven to seventeen.

I guess, but wouldn't it be easier and less messy just to shoot up or smoke it?

Then there was some even more bizarre stuff about some guy in America who used to smear himself in peanut butter and jam and cut himself and throw himself into the audience.

Of course I completely refused to believe any of it it - how gullible did these bastards think I was anyway? And if they were going to invent a character, couldn't they come up with up a slightly more credible name for him than "Iggy Pop"?

What do you mean "liar"? It's all true, every word, honest, I swear it! I saw it with my own eyes!

More specifically, he was going to come onstage with a revolver, fire the first five shots into the audience, and kill himself with the final bullet.

The Kiss comic book - blood ink is true, although it was just a tiny bit of blood used.

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I wonder if this evolved out of some stories about Gwar, they always shoot that fake semen (I dearly hope) out of their stage penis thing.

oh and that a girl got pregnant of it.

Wow. Marilyn is quite a marksman.

God, imagine what happens if Googlers find this thread.

That actually got run in some newspapers/magazines for a while but was retracted.

What *did* freak me out were the Paul-is-Dead ones, which I read about in my first year of Beatlemaniacdom. I played "Revolution Number 9" backwards, and after hearing the "turn me on, dead man" bit, I was convinced this was something supernatural and refused to play the track (backwards or forwards) for years afterwards.

a ho-humly boy george yes yes zzz, but also (mixing in company WAY above his sleb station surely) kirk brandon (ie of theatre of hate and spear of destiny)

disclaimer: i was already a working rock journalist when i heard these sub-variants

That's actually true, but he wasn't on TV. I went with my friends to watch the hearse go up Finchley Road by the Camden Arts Centre after the funeral, and when we were walking back to my friend's house we walked past him and Mrs. Bernard, who both looked upset. I'm sure I told someone from the paper about it, or some PR I'd spoken to must have done. Oddly, one of the friends I was with got chased by Saul the Suede A&R for a year around that time.

Kirk/George = original Goodge Place squatters. If you were Blitz or Taboo you knew people who lived there. They were a deux for a while, but KB tried to injunct against people who reported this for YEARS.

Umm, is that a strange acid flashback hallucination? Actually, no that all happened for real...

Wattie out of The Exploited was one of the contestants and performed a Huey Lewis song?

Mark, I have to believe that was a strange acid flashback hallucination or the foundations of my entire universe may begin to crumble beneath me!

Next you'll be trying to tell me that Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke has produced and conducted orchestral arrangements of selected pieces by Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and is now the Composer in Residence of the Auckland Philharmonic!

No.... wait....

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).

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