The lyrics to “Louie, Louie” are dirty.
“Stairway to Heaven” includes backwards Satanic messages.
The story that “Mama” Cass Elliot choked to death on a ham sandwich. The autopsy found that she died from a heart attack and the coroner found no food in her trachea. The story got started because the police found a partially eaten sandwich in her flat and speculated she choked on it before the autopsy was carried out. Also, Cass was Jewish, and according to her sister, she followed Jewish dietary restrictions, so that made the belief that she was eating a ham sandwich highly suspect in her mind.
Four years later, the Who’s Keith Moon died in the same flat. True story.
Why would someone bring a live lamb to a rock concert, let alone present it to Jim Morrison? Yet we have photographic evidence that it happened.
The Alice Cooper story, the way he tells it, is that someone gave him a live chicken, which he tossed into the audience. The audience proceeded to tear the unfortunate bird in pieces. Coop says that he assumed chickens could fly. (He neglected to preface his remarks with “As God is my witness…”)
Rizzuto did deny he knew what he was saying, but he’s not saying anything about it these days: he died three years ago. Anyway I believe Meat Loaf’s version of the story.
Marilyn Manson had his lower ribs removed so he could blow himself on stage.
(Insert guitarist here) started playing the day Jimi Hendrix died.
I’ve seen this claimed several times. I’m beginning to doubt it, to be honest.
And he’s also the kid that played Paul on The Wonder Years.
The whole Satanic backwards message thing, PLUS that master tapes are “blessed” in occultic ceremonies so that copies printed off have spirits accompanying them. Of course, the last was an outright lie from the late ex-Illuminati hoaxster John Todd and passed on by his stooge Jack T. Chick.
Ozzy was so angry when Randy Rhodes announced his intention to leave the band that Ozzy put a satanic curse on Rhodes, which resulted in the plane crash that killed Rhodes.
Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, and Tupac Shakur have all been rumored to have faked their own deaths.
Courtney Love had Kurt Cobain murdered so he couldn’t divorce her and kick her off the gravy train.
Stephen King swears he saw Jim Morrison after he died.
And the version going around my high school was that it was Elton John’s semen that was pumped out of Rod Stewart’s stomach.
I’ve heard this one about Kurt Cobain (found in his autopsy) and Lil’ Kim (after a night out with Puffy and Biggie), as well. This is one urban legend that gets around, eh?
Not so much an urban legend as a bizarre coincidence: the large number of rock musicians who died at the age of 27 or 28.
The guy that played the piano track for BTO’s Takin’ Care of Business just happened by the studio to deliver pizzas.
Joan Jett was really a man and her real name was John Jett. Popular tale around '82.
Stevie Nicks supposedly blew out her nasal passages through cocaine abuse. So she would have one of her roadies inhale a straw full of cocaine and blow it up her vagina so she could get high.
Amazingly, I read an profile on Nicks where the writer interviewed Nicks, repeated this story to her and asked for her comments on it. She left the room without responding.
I’ve taken my ferret to rock concerts. Nobody noticed me sneaking her in.
Well, the first part of the claim is more or less true: she did end up with a damaged nasal septum due to years of cocaine use. I’ve read interviews where she has discussed this. But I’ve never heard the second part, and agree this sounds like something invented.
I’ve heard the second part attributed to Madonna, but it was being blown up her rectum, FWIW. With a golden straw, I think 