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

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).

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.