What are your favorite rock or pop music hoaxes?!
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Can you think of any huge attempts to deceive anyone in rock or pop music history? They don't necessarily have to be about death, but they can be.
Answers: The question on the current status of Pete Wentz prompted this question:
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Can you think of any huge attempts to deceive anyone in rock or pop music history? They don't necessarily have to be about death, but they can be.
I thought the recent Radiohead one was really funny. A few weeks before the release of "In Rainbows", someone set up a fake Radiohead website that showed a timer counting down to some unknown event, which many presumed would be an announcement about Radiohead's then upcoming album. After a few days of keeping people waiting, and a lot of speculation, the website redirected people who visited it to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7Zuu...
Milli Vanilli - lip synched
The Beatles.Paul Is Dead rumour.
Ozzy biting the head off of a bat, or KISS having really long tounges. To this day I don't know if either is true or not.
Tupac is still alive
Mama Cass & the ham sandwich
Blues Clues Steve died of a drug overdose
**me.....I'm thinking of turkey sandwiches on Friday......mmmmm
if you play stairway to heaven backwards it says satan stuff
I HEARD that once Slash of GNR/VR was playing a solo so intensely, that when the cigarette that's always dangling from his mouth fell out and landed in his pants, he finished the solo before removing it.
However - Slash wore tight leather pants MOST of the time... how could a cigarette have fallen in?
Mine:
Toss-up between that Britney, Nsync, backstreet boys, Ashlee Simpson, & Avril were all "great musicians" worthy of sales in the millions
or
American Idol is a sensational show that'll produce the next groundbreaking music acts!
But seriously, folks. Take my wife...please.
The Paul is dead hoax. That was huge.
MCR saving lives.
Yikess all these MCR questions are starting to effect my answers now argh............
Elvis is still alive, ridin' 'round in his pink cadilac
that or the one where courtney love had nothing to do with kurt dying.
Jim Morrison is still alive and living in France. They did make Eddie and the Cruisers as a "tribute" for that rumor.
The Paul is dead hoax.
The Milli Vanili scandal.
Fonzie..I'm not that old, but i totally remember hearing about the Rod Stewart thing heh.
I am a fan of the Mama Cass ham sandwich story or the Elvis dying on the toilet one.
I hate when people say Biggie,Tupac,and Elvis are still alive.
I hate it when people say Alice Cooper ate a snake onstage once...HE NEVER DID!!
When people say Marilyn Manson had 2 of his ribs removed so he could suck his own dikk.
And I hate it when people say that Iggy Pop cuts himself and is emo.
Milli Vanilli.... that was hilarious.
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Paul McCartney is or has ever been dead.
2. Stevie Nicks’ assistant had to blow coke up Stevie’s a** due to Nicks’ destroyed nasal passages.
3. Mama Cass died after choking on a ham sandwich.
4. Angie Bowie caught her husband in bed with Mick Jagger.
5. Mark David Chapman was an assassin programmed by the CIA.
6. Members of Led Zeppelin pleased a teenage groupie using a red snapper/shark as their toy of choice.
7. Jim Morrison was killed by members of the Nixon administration/faked his own death/died from a heart attack brought on by *****bating in a Parisian bathtub.
8. Deborah Harry was once abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy.
9. Keith Moon drove a car into a Holiday Inn pool on his 21st birthday, knocked out a couple of teeth and got the Who banned for life from all Holiday Inns.
10. Gene Simmons had a cow tongue grafted onto his own tongue after a car accident.
11. Rod Stewart/Lil’ Kim/Jordan Knight had to get their respective stomachs pumped after ingesting a gallon of *****.
12. During a drug bust on Mick’s place Marianne Faithfull was once found with a Mars bar between her legs.
13. Marilyn Manson had his lowest set of ribs removed so he could **** himself.
14. Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa attempted to gross each other out by ***tting onstage, then eating it.
15. Bob Marley was assassinated/given cancer in his toe by the CIA.
16. Phil Collins’ tune “In the Air Tonight” was written after Collins witnessed a gruesome incident in which one man let another man drown.
17. Keith Richards routinely has in the past/continues today to get full-body blood transfusions.
18. Jack and Meg White are brother and sister.
19. “Hotel California” is about a Christian church that was abandoned then taken over by Satan worshipers, the Eagles are Satan worshipers and Satan him (or her) self appears in the window on the album jacket.
20. Bob Ezrin, who produced Lou Reed’s Berlin, got the anguished children’s cries you hear on “The Kids” by telling his own children their mother was dead and recording the sounds they made.
21. Pearl Jam was named after a peyote-infused jam Eddie Vedder’s grandmother used to make.
22. Charles Manson auditioned for the Monkees.
23. Marilyn Manson played Kevin Arnold’s friend Paul Pfeiffer on the Wonder Years.
24. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his guitar-playing gifts.
25. Roy Orbison was an albino and wore dark glasses because he was blind.
It's a tie between "Paul is dead" and "Elvis is alive".
one time ( think it was april fools, not sure) on a main Tool website, it claimed that the band had disbanded because Maynard had "found God". which is funny because this happened to one of the members of korn ... except that time no one cared. lol
and wasnt there something about Keith Richards snorting his father's ashes? which wasnt true. but pretty interesting.
rukrym - hahahha i never knew about that that is too funny
Hmm let's see, the whole recent "Ian Mackaye is dead" hoax was pretty messed up. He even had his Wikipedia entry re-edited by someone the day the rumor came out, so that it read: April 16, 1962 - Oct. 2, 2007. The poor guy had to confirm to the Baltimore Sun that he was indeed still alive :)
Steel Dragon - I really REALLY wish they existed :'(