Weird rumours about pop stars and other celebrities you heard as a kid and, not yet being capable of critical thinking, took for granted.

I heard that Michael Jackson likes to fuck kids.

How weird!

prince and michael jackson were brothers and/or in love with each other.

Oh yeah, all that stuff about backwards messages on records that affect your mind subliminally, we totally believed that, but we thought it was just cool!

Momus once beat a cow to death with his bare hands

paul mccartney is dead

Crazy Frog was voiced by that dude out of the Arcade Fire.

When were you a kid again?

You of all people should respect the ability to maintain a childlike sense of wonder.

I guess so.

The title of "Babooshka" by Kate Bush meant something like "taking a shit outdoors" - for some reason we believed this.

Also we believed that KISS was an acronym for Knights In Satan's Service, and WASP meant We Are Sexual Perverts.

Someone in the second grade told me that the guy who sang Puttin' On the Ritz (Taco Ockerse) was seen publicly wearing a ladies' brassiere. Maybe that was true, for all I know.

#1 for anyone my age should be the rumor that lil bow wow got raped by his bodyguard

also that ciara is a dude but i was old enough then to know that it wasn't true

Loads of grown-ups believe the Jamie Lee Curtis hermaphrodite bobbins.

I can sorta see the reason for the Jamie Lee Curtis rumour, as weird as it is, but how could anyone come up with the idea that Ciara is a man? She doesn't look masculine at all.

My brother's med school prof told him that's actually true, about Jamie Lee Curtis.

I heard G-Unit's Olivia is actually a man. That is a lot more believable.

Clint Eastwood is Stan Laurel's son (never believed it myself tho)

She doesn't look masculine at all.

What's that supposed to prove?

I always thought Coolio had AIDS, and was shocked whenever I saw him making an appearance on MTV and not, say, in a hospital bed.

Oh, Michael Stipe "had AIDS" for a bit as well. And Lauryn Hill briefly died of a herion overdose.

marilyn manson played brian on the wonder years

Oh yeah, that was a good one

One of my classmates in High school used to claim that Marilyn Manson was Shirley Manson's brother. My classmate was a moron.

Can we do this thread for ILXors? It'd be much funnier.

good idea ronan
but only fun if we can reply anonymously

Also we believed that KISS was an acronym for Knights In Satan's Service, and WASP meant We Are Sexual Perverts.

-- snoball, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 16:44 (1 hour ago) Link

When I was a freshman in high school I had tickets to see Alice in Chains, who cancelled because Layne Staley had pneumonia. There was a rumor at my school that he had overdosed on heroin. D'OH.

Also, sometime in middle school it was rumored that "the cha-ching guy" (who we all now know and love as Seth Green) got run over by a Mack truck and died.

for forever everyone liked to start a rumor that mark paul gossalar was dead

Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse suddenly went off-air (sad day) because Pee Wee "pulled down his pants in a movie theatre."

Another rumour that went around kindergarden was that Donnie Wahlburg was arrested for punching someone on an airplane, after which NKOTB ceased to be cool anymore and I decided that I wasn't going to marry him after all.

(I never really wanted to marry Donnie anyway, my heart was truly with Danny--but he was the first NKOTB to get arrested for punching someone as my best friend Carla was quick to inform me... it wasn't long after that that I had to keep my NKOTB paraphenalia and beg Mom for another schoolbag. I wisely chose a Ninga Turtles bag.

My sister told me G-n-R had broken up because Slash od'd. I told somebody that in home room. By the end of the day somebody was crying because Guns N Roses had driven off a cliff in their tour bus.

The "somebody in GnR od'd" rumor was omnipresent back then though.

Didn't Donnie Wahlberg set a hotel room on fire or something?

There were a LOT of NKOTB gay sex rumours back then, too. I heard Jordan Knight had had to have his stomach pumped and they found like half a litre of semen and an entire condom.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Donnie_Wahlberg_at_the_1990_Grammys.jpg
April 1991 he was arrested and charged with first degree arson. He apparently was trying to set a hotel on fire with a molotov cocktail fire bomb. These charges were later reduced then dropped because he agreed to do public service commercials.

April 1991 he was arrested and charged with first degree arson. He apparently was trying to set a hotel on fire with a molotov cocktail fire bomb. These charges were later reduced then dropped because he agreed to do public service commercials.

All those boy bands actually ARE harems for kid-fuckers.

All those boy bands actually ARE harems for kid-fuckers.

-- Gavin, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:39 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

in light of the recent allegations against Lou Pearlman and Chris Stokes, this has really kind of gone beyond fodder for snarky jokes/rumors.

Yeah that's what I'm saying: the rumors and jokes were true.

Hanoi Rocks drummer didn't die in drunk driving crash with Vince Neil. Neil actually STABBED him to death.

yeah ok, fair nuf

one I didn't believe, even when I was 6.

MJ actually did the Vincent Price spoken word bit at the end of Thriller. He didn't use a voice modulator or anything, he got his voice to sound like that by SMOKING DRUGS.

Rod Stewart, a stomach full of jizz.

Hanoi Rocks drummer didn't die in drunk driving crash with Vince Neil. Neil actually STABBED him to death.

I once had a conversation with Randy Rhoads on a Ouija board and he told me that it wasn't a plane crash that did him in. Really, Ozzy murdered him. Also, being a young KISS fan sucked because all the 'normal' kids would try to tell you that Gene Simmons stomped on baby chickens with his big ol' dragon boots, and that they'd vomit on the audience, or pass around a bowl in the audience for people to spit into, and then drink it. These 4th graders had sicker minds then the crazy-ass rock & rollers.

ozzy passing a bucket around the audience, everyone spits in it and then ozzy drinks it.

ozzy uses a chainsaw on a doberman and chops it up onstage

ozzy hangs a midget onstage

Oh yeah, blowing up a goat.

He actually did hang a midget, named "Ronnie" hahaha

fucking scarycloth eared

How many rock stars has the semen-pumped-from-stomach rumor been attached to? I first heard it about Jon Bon Jovi, but a teacher told us it was actually an old story about Rod Stewart.

I first heard it at primary school about Marc Almond. I'm not even sure I even knew what semen was.

yeah I remember my much older cousins talking about it during the "Some Guys Have All The Luck" era, prob handed down from ten years before that.

The semem pumping incident isn't a rumor. It was definitely Marc Almond and it was 100% true! I heard it from a friend of one of his roadies.

Rikki Sixx caught buttfucking Tommy Lee by MTV camera crew. I believed this for like a day in 4th grade, as other kids "corroborated" seeing it and I didn't have cable.

is Rikki Sixx Nikki Sixx's brother?

haha sorry

Richard and Nicholas Sixx, freres

How many rock stars has the semen-pumped-from-stomach rumor been attached to? I first heard it about Jon Bon Jovi, but a teacher told us it was actually an old story about Rod Stewart.

The Snopes page on this rumour lists about 20 different artists, but I think Rod Stewart was the original one. Also, it seems this urban legend originally involved an anonymous cheerleader, before it took the "supposedly gay pop star" twist.

yeah i heard rod stewart.

i heard it about one of the bros brothers

Mariah Carey has an ugly birth mark or burn mark on one side of her face.

That's just her face, dude.

"The semem pumping incident isn't a rumor. It was definitely Marc Almond and it was 100% true! I heard it from a friend of one of his roadies."

.....who, like all roadies and roadies' friends and other people on the periphery of the circus, would feel no jealousy whatever at the amount of sex or money or attention or other 'creature comforts' The Star can make happen just by snapping his entitlement-addled fingers, and furthermore would have no interest whatsoever in impressing the likes of us nobodies by big-noting about how close to the centre of the action they are....

I thought Erica's post was supposed to be humourous comment on the "truth" of urban legends.

Anyway, in Almond's autobiography he mentions how bad he felt when he first heard people were claiming this about him, though he felt a bit better when he later found out it was an ages-old rumour, of which he was merely the latest target.

Jay-Z and Nas are Freemasons/Illuminati

Shannon Hoon gave Axl Rose a blowjob onstage once. Maybe this happened, but it didn't appear in his obituaries and I'm not going to go searching for evidence.

(actually, this is not so much 'incapable of critical thinking', as 'there wasn't really an internet to look it up on')

Axl Rose is dead?!

yeah, did you see that photo where he crosses Abbey road wearing 21 pairs of shoes?

and that video where he dies. No wonder that new GnR album is taking so long to get finished.

Freddie Mercury used to have parties where naked waiters carried bowls of cocaine that the guests were free to snort.

That's not true. It was actually naked dwarves with bowls of cocaine balanced on their heads.

Source?

Columbia iirc

oh shit spelling

Plenty of white powder...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/British_Columbia%2C_Canada.svg/250px-British_Columbia%2C_Canada.svg.png

I remember hearing when I was around 6 or 7 that at concerts somebody-I don't remember who-would throw a bunch of kittens and puppies into the audience and say the concert wouldn't start until they were all dead. Maybe it was Ozzy Osbourne, considering the other concert rumors above.

the lead singer for grand funk railroad had so much sex his penis exploded

he shouldn't have fucked Dig Dug

Blackie Lawless was hospitalized when his pyrotechnic codpiece malfunctioned and set fire to his testicles

Meatloaf broke six ribs when he tried to stagedive and everyone ran out of the way

Richard Gere had a fetish for 'habitrailing' and got a gerbil stuck in his ass.

Whitesnake's David Coverdale suffered from chronic flatulence

Hence the song 'Here I Go Again'

marilyn manson had a rib removed so he could suck his own dick

I remember hearing when I was around 6 or 7 that at concerts somebody-I don't remember who-would throw a bunch of kittens and puppies into the audience and say the concert wouldn't start until they were all dead.

Could see this actually being a true story about say, the Feederz.

the lead singer for grand funk railroad had so much sex his penis exploded

I'm unclear on the details, but this was actually Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night, as he recounts in his memoir Three Dog Nightmare.

def appropriating that for my memoir

man i hope there's no link between the explosion and the title of the book

if there's not an explosion yr doing it wrong

tell that to Sting

I remember that Richard Gere/gerbil story too... Such a bizarre rumour! Was there some reason why Richard Gere in particular would be associated with anal gerbils?

I mean, with most of these stories, as ludicrous as they are, I can see why they were associated with that particular celebrity, but the gerbil thing just feels totally random.

One evening Madonna came to visit Michael Jackson at his place. They stripped each other naked, and after that talked for the whole night.

so lol

Frank Zappa taking a shit on stage and then eating it.

GG Allin playing a very long jazz influenced guitar solo.

Barenaked Ladies concerts feature an interlude where ACTUAL BARENAKED LADIES run into the audience sucking ppl off

iirc you gotta be ready to drop trou w/no hesitation—v.limited window, first-come-first-served

also, when I was a little older, the Marilyn-Manson-rib-removal & Bow-Wow-bodyguard-rape ones

All three of the Beastie Boys died of drug overdoses sometime just before recording Paul's Boutique.

The only music Ozzy's kids could listen to growing up was Black Sabbath and Ozzy's solo stuff!