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young mc was hammer's son.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(children can be rather stupid.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Rod Stewart's stomach pump to thread!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Also i vaguely remember a story about the sex pistols getting off a plane in the u.s. and one of them vomiting on an old women. and alice cooper passing a bucket around, fans spitting into it, and then him drinking from the bucket. so basically everything i heard was based on semen, vomit, and saliva.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My sixth-grade teacher told us a variation on the Sex Pistols' story, which was that they vomited onstage as part of their live act. And of course we all knew about Rod's stomach pump. However, the coolest story that went around - Ozzy biting off a bat's head - was actually true.

― mike a, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the Rod Stewart story had turned into a Marc Almond story by the time i was in school.

― ian johno (ian johno), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder who inherited richard gere's gerbil?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

all the artists I've been told who have had ribs extracted so they can give themselves a blowjob:

Boy George
Jimmy Sommerville
Prince
Marc Almond
Tom Robinson
Marylin Manson (all the rest was from back in school but someone told me this recently, I think people just attribute this to anyone gay or anyone they're unsure of)

― Michael B, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

marilyn manson is the kid from wonder years

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

marilyn manson is the kid from small wonder

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

marilyn manson is the kid from the wonder stuff

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(okay i possibly made that last one up myself)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was part of the Marc Almond Stomach Pump Generation too.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, Billy Corgan is the kid from Small Wonder.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the Rod Stewart story had turned into a Marc Almond story by the time i was in school.

Yeah, ditto. I was only about 10 when I heard it and didn't really understand.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

billy joe from green day = joey from nkotb

marilyn manson rib removal for own-dick-suckage seconded.

i was a teenager but these were very plausible stories.

the kind of things you really, really wanted to be true.

― brian badword (badwords), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

At university there was lots of talk as to who "the gay one" in Take That was (Jason seemed to be the consensus).

Also I heard that a much-loved Blue Peter presenter had had group sex on a pool table while at university.

This kind of stuff is Popbitch territory now but those were more innocent days.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the best is when they stopped being rumors and just became accepted facts

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Also surely the white musician with the black dick 'fits in here'. Dave Gahan wasnt it?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimi Hendrix would throw his guitar at the crowd at each of his concerts, often killing one or two people as a result.

Ozzy Osbourne once put an ad to buy a baby so that he could have him/her sacrificed onstage (also heard Scott's bucket of spit/puke story with Ozzy instead of Alice - this was back when he had all those scary album covers).

Semen in the stomach story w/Billy Idol instead of Rod Stewart.

All of Iron Maiden's songs are the exact same recording, they just twirl a few buttons and dials in the studio to make them sound different from one another (that was coming from a FAN too!).

― Patrick (Patrick), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"George Michael is gay!"

― Michael B, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

marilyn manson rib removal for own-dick-suckage thirded. Also that story about a guy shitting onstage and him eating it. Poor Maryiln, portuguese school kids really weren't too kind to him.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yes i believe it was billy idol for us too

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice Cooper ate Gene Simmon's shit in a 'grossest man in the world' contest.

If you play Led Zeppelin backwards, it has all this devil stuff.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "ian mackaye SMOKES now"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC = Anti Christ, Death of Christ

KISS = Kids (or Kings or Knights) In Satan's Service

― Patrick (Patrick), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone verify if Iron Maiden burned an Irish flag at one of their concerts? It's the kind of thing that wouldn't surprise me but someone (a metal fan, natch) told me it was cobblers.

― Michael B, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"morrisey is GAY!!"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

see also: robert smith

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Prince is actually a virgin."

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My pumped stomach story was with poor ol' Elton John..

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

cliff richard's has a colostomy bag.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

tom even as a child i'm not sure i could have believed that

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

so it appears the lineage is:

elton john ->rod stewart -> marc almond -> billy idol -> RICKY MARTIN

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

all queerer than a three dollar bill

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the logic was - we 13-year-old-boys think about sex all the time and we are all virgins. Prince thinks about sex all the time. QED.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, the old "you wouldnt be thinking about it so much if you've had/are having it"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Gene Simmons had a cow's tongue grafted onto his own.
Alice Cooper drank his own pee onstage.
A constipated Elvis died overexerting himself on the toilet.
KISS, Ozzy, Led Zeppelin, etc. worship the devil.
Buckethead is Steve Vai.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

In my school, why growing up, us kids tended to spread these vicious rumours about George Michael being gay......

;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard it was one of the guys from the Fine Young Cannibals

the stomach pump story that is

― Michael B, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'vicious'.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

so it was geir all along that turned george michael gay

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes the elvis constipation one seconded.

Also Paul's Anti Christ, Death of Christ. In fact I still beieve that.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

cozen: The word "vicious" was meant in a rather ironic way here. Although to typical homophobic kids, the rumours were certainly that.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Metallica are really good"

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

that my history teacher's sister was married to Jello Biafra.

he was later convicted of touching 16 year olds.

― brock (brock), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Suggestions of Rod Stewart's gayness seems to be a uniquely American thing. Why they think this I have no idea (apart from that it's funny)

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I know geir! I'm just playin w. you.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

only a man with a high understanding of camp could have made "forever young"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead pop star jokes were all the rage at my school.

Did you hear Marc Bolan was on the radio the night he died?

And the dashboard, the steering wheel...

What was Marc Bolan's last hit?

A tree!

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Very adaptable, that first one...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC = Anti Christ, Death of Christ

"All Cunts Die Cunts" was the version I heard.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and teddy pendergrass getting a blowjob from a drag queen moments before he had his car accident. but there is some truth to that story.at least the drag queen part is true, i think, if not the BJ part.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

LUTHER VANDROSS WANTING A HAMBURGER BUT ONLY HAVING TWO DONUTS INSTEAD OF A ROLL SO USING THEM INSTEAD

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

poor luther...he used to get it worse than oprah and robert smith combined

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I never heard that AC/DC was an acronym for anything, but rather that they were all bisexual. It was some time later, though, that I actually found out what "bisexual" meant.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of my Kiss-fan friends had a lot of weird stories going on about Kiss, like they used to live in Norway before and one of the songs on "Unmasked" was about Norwegian tabloid paper Dagbladet and all the stories they used to write about Kiss. There was also the story that Peter Criss was the fastest drummer in the world, with about 100 hits a second.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

'Michael Jackson is a woman' - I actually believed this when I was 8, and tried in vain to convince my 12 year old cousin about this. By the way he (my cousin!) was the only Accept fan I ever knew, he had tons of Udo Dirckschneider posters in his room.

― matulageci, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've recently been trying to convince Alice (3) that MJ is not a woman.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

LUTHER VANDROSS WANTING A HAMBURGER BUT ONLY HAVING TWO DONUTS INSTEAD OF A ROLL SO USING THEM INSTEAD

I've been recounting this story for years (except it was his favourite snack, not a one-off thing). I'll be needing pretty strong proof it never happened before I stop

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Old work colleague said her dad knew Rod in the '60s and that Rod was rent.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bill the cat died of aids
ad rock=skreech

― kephm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ad-rock was just skreech's brother - everybody knows that
Michael and Dustin Diamond. Shit. This is obvious.

― matulageci, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike D, not Ad Rock.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hey fuckhead, define everyone . thanks kisses xpost

― kephm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Stomach pump story got passed on to poor Jewel at my school.

― original bgm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

is jewel the first woman to inherit it?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A Kiss comic book was printed with their blood in the ink. (How is it the stories about Kiss are more interesting than the freakin' band, eh?) (Hosers.)

I thought Luther ADMITTED to doing that! I'll swear on a Bible / Spin Alt. Guide / holy book of choice I saw some ET segment where he described that whole sordid scenario.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rod Stewart story which had turned into the Marc Almond story had turned into the Alanis Morrisette story by the time I was in school.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the only one I can remember was of ozzy tossing 5 kittens out into the audience and saying he wouldn't start the show until all five were killed and thrown back on stage.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"What was Marc Bolan's last hit?"

It was "Wrap a yellow mini 'round an old oak tree" wasn't it?

Oh, I'm so so sorry, I just couldn't stop that - I'm afraid my computer is suffering from tourettes syndrome.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

bollocks is it...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

My stepbrother was adamant that Rage Against The Machine were a nazi band when I was just getting into them, age about 13. He said they were called that because they think black people are machines. "It's a shame cos their music is really good," he noted. The really sad thing is I spent ages studying their lyrics for any evidence of his claim. Didn't find much.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"bollocks is it... "

Yours too eh? It's a fucking pain in the fucking arse, isn't it you bastard?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ozzy did the drinking of bucket of passed-around spit in the vers. I heard.

Ozzy hung a midget onstage.

Ozzy killed a bunch of dobermans onstage with a chainsaw.

(This was was kinda gruesome and apparently very specific to my school)

Jimi Hendrix always wore headbands because he had cut on his forhead that he would jam drugs into

(which makes no sense on a number of levels but we didn't really know shit about Hendrix or drugs at the time)

W.A.S.P. stands for either A) We Are Satan's People or B) We Are Sexual Perverts

(This was told to me at a Peter's Brothers semiar The Truth About Rock, a travellling anti-rock "crusade" show my mom took me to)

On the cover of Who's Next, the Who have just urinated on a memorial to deceased British WWII veterens.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it true that Gene Simmons cut the little part of his tongue that connects it to the bottom of the mouth, so that he would be able to stick it out really far?

WASP= We are Satan's People

I am not familiar with the stomach pump story. What are the details exactly?

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh you beat me to the punch with WASP.

I remember hearing that Jimi would soak the headband in heroin and then it would seep into the wound on his forehead.

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Very specific version of the Marc Almond story regarding him being notorious for doing his thang in the local park as he was from Southport (my home town).

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ozzy did hang a midget onstage - as part of the stage act, but still.

We Are Sexual Perverts, according to Blackie Lawless.

Why doesn't the Hendrix thing make sense? I figure it would work pretty well.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Stomach pump: he/she was filled with fluids. Men's fluids. Men's fluids of LURVE.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The stomach pump story is that Rock Star is admitted to hospital for some reason (stomach pains probably?) and when his stomach is pumped it turns out he has swallowed a GALLON OF CUM.

(Amount of cum varies by credulity of audience.)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

... a GALLON OF CUM.
(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.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Why doesn't the Hendrix thing make sense? I figure it would work pretty well.

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

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I vaguely remember being told some extraordinary load of cock and bull about Alice Cooper's live show involving live snakes and stabbing babies and cutting people's heads off with a guillotine and throwing money into the audience and him finally being led off stage in a straight jacket.

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"?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

GG Allin was going to kill himself onstage.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

1 gallon of baby gravy between seventeen men works out at .47058823509 of a pint per fella. That's impressive. As for Hendrix, not sure how easy or practical it is to jack up or get out the tin foil in the middle of a show. Not that it ever stopped Shaun Ryder.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The best part of the stomach-pump legend is the hospital finding it necessary to both measure and DNA-test the sample.

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

When Adam & The Ants first started out, they were a punk band who used to go on stage wearing all sorts of leather and rubber bondage S&M fetish gear and high heels and sing songs with titles like "Beat My Guest", "Whip In My Valise", "Boil In The Bag Man", "Rubber People" and "Bathroom Function"....

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

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

>GG Allin was going to kill himself onstage.

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.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mick Jagger was assassinated onstage by a crazed fan when I was in Junior High School. Also heard "dude, Ian's like a TOTAL ALCOHOLIC since Minor Threat broke up" a fair bit.

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

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Stipe was dying of AIDS.

― maypang (maypang), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne were the same person.

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

How come Rob Halford was never a target of the stomach-pump story?

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Cos the kids at school who liked metal were scary?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Stomach pump story was Lil' Kim for me.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: Lil' Bow Wow raped by bodyguard.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember recently hearing a rumor that Bow Wow was going to release a scathing mix tape dis freestyle against 50 Cent, after he mentioned him in that 8 Mile soundtrack song, where he says something about R Kelly stealing Bow Wow's "bitch". Never happnned as far as I know.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

when I was in 7th grade my sister told me someone from Guns N Roses OD'd. I told that to like 2 people in homeroom, and by the end of the day some kid was crying and told me G 'N R's tour bus drove off a cliff.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard the stomach pump story with one of Bros. so so far we have...

elton john
rod stewart
marc almond
billy idol
fine young canibals
one of Bros.
'lil kim
ricky martin
jewel

― tomp (tomp), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard the 'throw kittens into the crowd' story with Marilyn Manson, although it was puppies. Also, that he would tell fans to bring bibles to tear up and burn on stage.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

All the best on-stage horror stories are true.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

CD-R GO!: Best Of Musicians Who Had A Liter Of Semen Pumped Out Of Their Stomach

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard the stomach pumping thing about Lil' Kim.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

In middle school my cousin told me that Marilyn Manson filled large squirt guns (Super Soakers they were called back then?) with semen and shot it into the audience at a show. or several shows.

― mallory ahern (chicago, now!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and that a girl got pregnant of it.

― mallory ahern (chicago, now!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

In middle school my cousin told me that Marilyn Manson filled large squirt guns (Super Soakers they were called back then?) with semen and shot it into the audience at a show. or several shows.

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.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pearl Jam was named after the band circle-jerked onto a biscuit (or toast or something) and shared it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No one mentioned all of Quiet Riot dying in a plane crash yet? Well, there was that. Maybe it was just my school.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the only one that really sticks out to me was the playground rumor that an MTV news crew had been on its way to interview Motley Crue, and that they accidentally walked in on Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil having hot buttsex. Which of course had been broadcast "accidentally" - thus kids claimed to have actually seen it. This was 5th grade, so I was 9 or 10 at the time.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 5 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody's meantioned how Dr. Dre & Suge were lovers, and controlled Death Row records by blackmailing all their MCs into staying through their involvement in Dre & Suge's home sex tape collection.

God, imagine what happens if Googlers find this thread.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Lauryn Hill said that she'd rather see children starve than have white people buy her album was quite a popular one when I was a bairn.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, Oh, Oh, Me, I've got one: Mariah Carey comes back from doing famine prevention funding in Ethiopia only to say that she was sort of jealous of how skinny the kids were, but wasn't into "all that fly business".

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

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Paul is dead"

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard the stomach pumping thing about ilxers.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Save for the KISS rumors, I heard none of these stories as a kid, not even the stomach pump ones.

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.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

According to the NME, but nowhere else I have ever seen, Bernard Butler was caught on TV in the crowd at Princess Di's funeral, in floods of tears.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Cash was a convicted murderer.

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

add to the stomach-pump line-up:

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

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 March 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

After I left school I knew someone who knew someone who knew Kirk Brandon and she told me that he and Boy George were a couple at one point.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 5 March 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The person who someone you knew knew, was telling the truth.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

He called me a Diamond Geezer, one time.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Please don;t tell me you used to follow ToH about too Mark?!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

According to the NME, but nowhere else I have ever seen, Bernard Butler was caught on TV in the crowd at Princess Di's funeral, in floods of tears.

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.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it was a pro/am Karaoke evening at "Up the creek". Myself and a girl friend (but not...) as contestants amongst various other. I did "Daydream believer", she did "Pearl's a singer" while riding a kiddies ride type horse. Kirk was one of the judges. My backing track was too high so I sang it sub-basso and it sounded worse than metallica. Kirk's reasoned response was "Mark Grout... Diamond Geezer... What went wrong?" The eventual winner was Wattie out of the Exploited (in civvies) doing "I'm doing it all for my baby" (Huey Lewis song (his baby is 3 years old etc...)

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirk Brandon was one of the judges for "a pro/am Karaoke evening"?

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....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole tale is 100% true and no exaggeration.

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...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hope photos of this event survive...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I would have taken a camera if i'd known what kind of evening ....

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I've already told you my Cure story and my Gary Numan story haven't I?

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-one years ago)

I was told the same pump story here in France in the 80's, but this time it involved Jimmy Sommerville... I guess it's some kind of modern equivalent to the ancient storie about the flood. So it has to be true for all of these :

elton john
rod stewart
marc almond
billy idol
fine young canibals
one of Bros.
'lil kim
ricky martin
jewel
Lil Kim
Jimmy Sommerville

― snowballing, Friday, 5 March 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I hadn't seen those, no. The girl I mentioned above was a real numanoid nut (she showed me the photos...). I've lost touch with her now. Obv I remember the imfamous "Star".. Prontaprint nowadays... (Ahh Friends Pizza -> Purple Turtle bar -> pile of rubble on the floor -> snob restaurant (bad food and aggressive chefs and nervous waiters)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha Mark, trust me, a trip upstairs would not have been worth her while. Bob Mortimer's a bit of a sexist prannet and Sean's got issues - the same issues as every man who can't get a shag until his name's in lights has, and takes it out on the women he dates as if it's their fault. Once upon a time, I had occasion to inform him that this strategy was DEEPLY unattractive. Subsequently he tried to chat up one of my close friends at her book launch, but backed off when I showed him the red card for doing so.

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-one years ago)

Well, Sean wasn't famous then but ms. Name Withheld would still have... (If bob wasn't playing).

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The US writer... She wasn't in that infamous 'tape'?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

No, think Bay City Rollers....

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

... ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I really shouldn't say anything more as she is friendly acquaintance of mine who writes for cough cough the lefty paper. There are enough clues for you to work out who she is!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I know several Reading-based people who've shagged Mr Numan!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, that was a 'who' clue rather than a 'what happened' clue?

(We talking a book published?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

He actually married a (somewhat obsessive, from what I've heard) female fan didn't he?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

so that's where she went!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

We are talking a book published. About the Bay City Rollers. Written by said journalist.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

< searches Amazon.... > ummmm.... Ray Coleman?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Mencap, if you add 'based on her teenage experiences stalking the group' maybe Stewart will get it.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Numan met his wife some years after her obsessive schooldays fandom but she still liked him and all. And they are indeed still happily married and have a baby boy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw her being interviewed on telly once a few years back and she was saying stuff like "I always knew I'd end up married to Gary one day" - and I was thinking: "Uh huh? Really? Really? Is that right? How fascinating" OK, now don't turn 'round, don't run or make any sudden movements, just keep eye contact and back slowly towards the door and if she makes a lunge for you....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure she's very nice really though! < he said, hurriedly >

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Snarf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Why am I not surprised by the notion of Gary Numan marrying an obsessive fan?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

A few years ago I heard that the singer from Bush was a former Boy George conquest. True or false?

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

1984, third grade: I remember hearing that Vince Neil killed his buddy from Hanoi Rocks not in a drunk driving accident, but by stabbing him! In the balls! While hopped up on drugs!!

― Will (will), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

A few years ago I heard that the singer from Bush was a former Boy George conquest. True or false?

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-one years ago)

Prince was short for (excuse the pun) Prince of Darkness. Backing this up was the fact that 1999 filpped upside down was 666 1 as in "666 is #1!"

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-one years ago)

add another couple to the semen stomach-pump story, when i was in junior high it was all around that it was Jonathan and Jordan of the New Kids.

― jonviachicago, Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The version I heard was Rick Springfield. But I'm 32. I'm sure these things go in cycles.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 6 March 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I, too, heard the NKOTB version of the stomach-pump story in ninth grade in 1990. Another rumor that someone offered one morning in homeroom was that the two guys from Air Supply were getting married.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Blah blah blah, the stomach pump story for me was about Jon Bon Jovi, or maybe all the members of Bon Jovi, or the semen was in Jon's stomach but it was from all the other members of Bon Jovi, or something like that.

― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

all the artists I've been told who have had ribs extracted so they can give themselves a blowjob

This actually was true of (early 20th c Ital poet) Gabriele d'Annunzio.

― E. Pluribus Unum, Sunday, 7 March 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

In grade 4, I had a hand-me-down David Bowie 1977 world tour T-Shirt that I wore to school. One day as we were going in from recess another kid says "David Bowie's bi!" I asked what that meant and he said that he had sex with Mick Jagger.

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-one years ago)

E-40 is actually a white dude named Andy Partridge

― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

At our school it was Marc Almond and, always, HORSE-SEMEN. We also had Hendrix, but it was acid in the headband, natch. A little later, I believed Screech was Mike D's brother for a long time. Are we sure it's not true. They have such similar voices.

― Jamie, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know what these boards or anything, i just did a google search for jewel. and getting her stomach pumped. my friends and i had an argument last night about it.

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-one years ago)

Maybe, on this occasion, it was 10ml.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it was 10CC?!?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no! I'm now stuck with a mental image of Jewel laying on a bed and Lol Creme and Kevin Godley standing over her.... and that isn't a ball-point in his hand....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It would certainly explain why Kevin Godley always seems to have his eyes half closed; and as for Lol....

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-one years ago)

three months pass...

add "david bowie" to the GALLON OF CUM list upthread.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Klaatu=Beatles

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Saturday, 17 July 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"This actually was true of (early 20th c Ital poet) Gabriele d'Annunzio".

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard that Phil Collins was a rabid anti-semite and didn't call the police when there was a body floating in his pool after a party, because the guy was Jewish.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

There was a rumour in my grade school that Peter Criss killed Shawn Cassidy by shoving drum sticks down his throat.

― darin (darin), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"that guy is str8" this rumour was never beleived

― La Camilla Henemark, Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon Bon Jovi was the stomach-pumpee in Australia, circa 1990.
(Story was told to me as a bizarre pick-up line by a boy I liked at the time. I lost interest after that...)

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

stomach pump story for my school days involved Jordan of NKOTB. we also circulated a rumor that Morrissey was spotted eating at McDonalds

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 12 February 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

In my high school:

* 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 (twenty-one years ago)

jordan for my skool 2!

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Grafitti on a wall at our school, late '70's/early'80's:

"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 (twenty-one years ago)

stomach pumping -> on the North Shore in Mass., we had that courtesy of Gwen Stefani and, presumably, Gavin Rossdale.

Also, around 95 or so, that Dave Matthews had AIDS.

― Dapes, Sunday, 13 February 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

a parade of Marilyn Manson rumours incl. "dog thrown to crowd", "people spit in bucket he pours it in his wounds or some shit."

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 13 February 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

that there was a band who wouldn't go onstage unless they all had boners.

I believe that this band was Motorhead.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Prince and Michael Jackson were brothers. one more 'Jordan from NKOTB'-era stomach pumping.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 25 September 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Marilyn Man1on is the kid from Mr Belvedere

― Some Guy, Sunday, 25 September 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I think this one may be true, the Beastie Boys made fun of someone at their concert who was disabled or had leukemia or something.

― Some Guy, Sunday, 25 September 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Terminator X was white, and this was the reason all Public Enemy band photos were shot in monochrome so nobody would know.

― Kanye raps about stuff other than shoes on the radio, Saturday, 13 September 2008 13:23 (seventeen years ago)

kurt cobain killed himself because he had aids, "teen spirit" was about aids.

― internet person, Saturday, 13 September 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)

Two GG Allin suicide-on-stage stories - 1) he was going to go onstage firing a machine gun, or 2) he was going to shove a stick of dynamite up his ass and light it, then jump into the crowd. TBH there are enough real documented on film incidents of Allin crapping on stage, drinking pee from a bottle, etc., that just about anything is believable about him.

Luther Vandross didn't invent the Luther burger, but was a bit fan of them, and (here's the sketchy bit) he invented the practice of turning over the donut halves so that the icing is on the inside, because he was fed up of getting sticky fingers.

― snoball, Saturday, 13 September 2008 13:49 (seventeen years ago)

A bit later than school, but a friend claimed and I believed that Autechre used to be Jive Bunny.

― Neil S, Saturday, 13 September 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

In my school, during the mid 80s, there was a cruel rumour being spread about George Michael being gay. The girls were very upset by us boys spreading such a vicious rumour........

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 13 September 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

The stomach pump story mentioned several times upthread probably existed as an urban legend about a random cheerleader before it was attached to any pop star:

http://www.snopes.com/college/risque/cheerleader.asp

― Tuomas, Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/rockstar.asp

According to the Snopes page on the pop star version of the story it's also been told of Jon Bon Jovi, which sounds a bit odd to me. I've never heard of him having a "gay" reputation.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/Entertainment/Clarissa/ceia.gif

― Camille Pagliacci (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Btw, I've heard the "gross-out contest" story mentioned upthread being told of Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa. The version I heard was that they were on stage at the same time (the story doesn't explain why they would have shared a stage), and decided to have a contest on who could the grossest thing in front of the audience. So Alice Cooper pulls down his pants and shits on the stage, then gets up with a smile on his face, thinking he has won. But then Zappa eats the shit.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

"overindulgent cheerleader"
wau

― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

Huh, I didn't realise there were that many variations on the "stomach pump" story...

― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:04 (eight years ago)

"George Michael is gay!"
― Michael B, Thursday, March 4, 2004 9:23 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The version at our school was 'George Michael had a sex change!'

― how's life, Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:13 (eight years ago)

All three of the Beastie Boys died of drug overdoses sometime after License to Ill was released.

― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 March 2017 14:21 (eight years ago)

James Brown loved his drummer so much he wanted him to fly to Sweden to get a sex change operation, so he could marry him.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 March 2017 15:49 (eight years ago)

A bit later than school, but a friend claimed and I believed that Autechre used to be Jive Bunny.
― Neil S, Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:03 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this one might be my favourite of the ones posted so far!

― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:10 (eight years ago)

It's a good one but clearly way off. Everyone knows that Autechre used to be the Jump in the Saddle Band.

― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:17 (eight years ago)

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