Urban Legends about Pop Stars

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We all know the urban legends. That Rod Stewart (or David Bowie) had a gallon of cum pumped out of his stomach after blowing his roadies. That Marilyn Manson is really the kid from The Wonder Years and had several of his ribs removed so that he could suck his own schlong. That Alice Cooper stepped on baby chicks while Frank Zappa ate a plate of his own shit with a plastic spoon. And we haven't even started the GG Allin stories (most of which, unlike the others mentioned herein, were true).

Any others?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A personal favorite, about Gibby Haines and the truth of which he allegedly confirmed: That he was expelled from college when his college dean caught him masturbating in the shower with a wine bottle rammed up his ass.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seem to remember something about Stevie Nicks demanding that her assistants blow coke up her ass, so she wouldn't get a deviated septum.

And supposedly Chris Isaak is another one that can suck his own cock, although rib removal wasn't neccesary.

Alice Cooper is actually Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver. The guy and the girl on the back cover of Transformer are the same person. And Kim Gordon used to go out with Danny Elfman when they went to art school in LA-I believe that's true.

― Arthur, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ozzy Osbourne really did bite the head off a dove at a record company meeting. I saw him talking about it on TV and boy was he stupid! His defence was something like 'It's not what you think. I was just, uh, standing there and suddenly I thought, hey! and the next thing I knew I bit the head off so, you know, it wasn't as bad as what people think. I mean, we eat chickens.' But the story is muddled and some people think he bit off a rats head on stage, and stuff like that.

But the GREATEST thing he said was, after he confirmed that he did indeed piss on the steps of the white house, ' I feel really good that I accomplished my goal in life.'

That's kind of like the guy on UK Popstars who said 'I see this as a springboard to Hollywood. The entertainment industry, become a film star ... politics ... The President of the United States ...' He WASN'T JOKING.

― Maryann, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wasn' t it the alamo.. don't know about the white house... ozzy was rockin a floral dress... all he fashion in texas by any name.

― Dan Mancini, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

marianne faithfulls mars bar at redlands.. she was nude... but no mars bars.. keith richards dope habit funded by the CIA?... paul mccartney's abby road demise.. elvis? forget the death question.. lets just give thanks for the bonafide nixon meeting in purple cape and blu-blockers... maxs kansas city being the impressionists equivalent of usa punkrock... debbie harry as waitress... lou reed as coatcheck boy... and stuff.

― Dan Mancini, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd still like to know the one about acen. anyone remember any weird stuff involving acen?

― gareth, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The best part of the Ozzy story is what the policeman allegedly said: "How would you like it if I came over and urinated on Bucking-ham Palace?"

Ozzy: "I wouldn't care. I don't live there."

― Greg, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Ozzy story...yes, Dan, it was the Alamo and in his defence he said, quite reasonably, "if you gotta go, you gotta go."

― MarkH, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Keith Richards getting his blood swapped in Switzerland.

― Andrew L, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Keith getting his blood swapped was actually true.

And I've had my blood swapped, it's actually very invigorating. Highly reccommend it, though I don't reccommend getting into a state where you would *require* getting yer blood swapped.

― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A few faves:

- Dropping the urn of full of Sid Vicious's ashes at JFK airport (or was it at Heathrow) and having them spread everywhere, in the vents, etc.

- Paul McCartney dying in a car crash, the Beatles covering it up and replacing him with William Campbell (aka "Billy Sheers") and leaving clues all over albums, etc., creeping everybody out in the process.

- I've heard Elton John cited in that same "gallon o' cum" saga.

- Ozzy snorting a line of ants and then lapping his own (and Nikki Sixx's) urine.

- Jaz Coleman of the almighty Killing Joke worshipping Aleister Crowley, dumping a box full of maggots on the desk of an NME journalist, casting hex's on people, and bolting off to Iceland in preparation for the end of the world (all true, somewhat sadly).

- Alice Cooper throws a chicken/kitten/child into the crowd, refusing to play until the crowd has ripped it apart. (Based on an actual incident at a show where an *AUDIENCE MEMBER* threw a chicken onstage. Alice chucked it back into the crowd, thinking it'd fly away, the crowd riped it to pieces and threw the parts back onstage....thankyou, BEHIND THE MUSIC).

- Dreadful MOR band STYX are devil worshippers (based on their name being associated with the River Styx, which runs through hell...and the upside-down silhoette of a goat's head on the back cover of THE GRAND ILLUSION in the reflecting pool. S'truth!)

― alex in nyc, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah the way i remember that ozzie doco he HAD pissed on the alamo but he said his GOAL now was to piss on the steps of the White House. also he was supposed to've bit off a BAT's head on stage, not a rat. i don't know if it's true though.
also - mo' AUTOFELLATION - C.C. DeVille (i think is his name), drummer from Poison, he also is reputed to have that facility.

― duane, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alternatively there's the Zepplin story when the band took a few girls and an aquarium on board their private jet for John Bonham's birthday. Bonham was (apparently) quoted as saying "I thought I'd seen everything until I saw an octopus penetrate eight women at once."

― Matt D'Cruz, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CC DeVille is Poison's lead guitarist. Their drummer is/was Rikki Rocket. And they suck. Now, it seems, in more ways than one.

You sure you're not thinking of the Mud Shark incident at the Hyatt (Riot) House as detailed in "Hammer of the Gods"?

― alex in nyc, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought it was the mud shark as well. And I thought Marc Almond was the favourite choice for the stomach pump story now? The problem with these rumours is that they're used for everyone. I quite like the one about Kylie, Michael Hutchence and the Barbie doll. I quite like the new story about Myleene and Kym. The one about Ricky Martin, the girl and the dog food's played out. The whole story about Euronymous/Mayhem is the ultimate example of this, obviously, plus I think it's true.

― Greg, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what kylie one? what barbie doll? Oh yeah, no myth on this apparently, Courtney slut dragging Kurt's ashes around in a backpack, goes through customs, dude asks what's in her bag, she slaps it down, opens up the backpack, dust flys up and says "That's my fucking husband."

― Geoff, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Greg: You mean the one about Ricky Martin, the closet, the girl, the peanut butter, and the dog, right?

― David Raposa, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was dog food originally. What's a dog prefer, dog food or peanut butter? Kylie and Barbie Doll - take a rough guess.

― Greg, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even more scandalous, "Not their real hair": Elton, Bowie, Michael (Jackson)...

― Jason, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The problem with these rumours is that they're used for everyone.

That's the GOOD thing about em. & everyone thinks they know the REAL versions, that's good too.

― duane, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Elton John's hair really is seriously, scarily not real. I saw it up close on Friday night. You can always tell not-real hair by how it behaves when the person is sweating and that was like the hair on stuffed animals. SCARY!!!

I think most of these rumours have existed since the times of the Roman Emporers (when many of them were actually true) but they have had the names of the local equivalents slotted into place. These days, we conveniently have pop stars instead of emporers.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Scene: The Forum, (I Love) Rome

TARDENIO: And I hear that Septimus Severus had a gallon of man-fluid removed from his stomach by the Apothecary....

MASONICUS BOOMIUS: Eheu! These legends have been around since the time of the Kings of Nineveh and Ur (when most of them were true).

― Tom, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Eeep: don't let Old Pedant *near* that, Tom!!)
"Eheu" is good, tho: distilled Sanctus Custardius Latin. But Masonica Booma, give me that at least!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In more enlightened (i.e. Roman) times the Old Pedant would have been long since exiled to Dacia for correcting some Imperial grammar.

You are right about Masonica Booma - after many long years of learning latin my skillz are withered and I can't get much beyond "Caecilius pater est. Metella mater est.".

― Tom, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Elton John's hair isn't real?! Egads! There's the one about Dylan coming off his motorbike, dying and being replaced by a doppelganger (which predates McCartney's), and the perennial Scottish favourite that Marti Pellow was in fact born in a public lavatory.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There were TONS of Ozzy Osbourne stories at my secondary school, and they used to scare the shit out of me, stuff like Ozzy passing a bucket around at his concerts and having people throw, uh, whatever bodily fluids they wished in there, and then drinking the contents. Also, from the same period, Jimi Hendrix throwing his guitar in the crowd at the end of every show and frequently killing a people or two as a result (hey, I was young and NAIVE, okay ?)

― Patrick, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even more scandalous, "Not their real hair": Elton, Bowie, Michael (Jackson)...

Surely the fact that Elton used to be going bald and now no longer is would clue you in to this state of affairs ??

― Patrick, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Warhol had a clip surgically inserted into his skull, so that his wig wd never blow off. (Not sure that's a UL, tho: isn't it in one of his autobiographies?)

So what's the Myleene/Kym "new one", then?

― mark s, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not sure if it's legend or fact, but what about Manson getting Billy Wanker Corgan to snort seamonkies?

― Alexis Dicks, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

According to Behind Le Music the Ozzy biting bat story onstage is true enough. Seems he got into the habit of chomping *rubber* bats due to high publicity from original dove munch. Well, during one show a fan tossed a real but dead bat onto the stage and Ozzy mistook it for a rubber one, until too late that was, and it all resulted in a nasty series of rabies shots. Yeah.

RIGHT. Where (O' where) in this thread is that infamous, but totally untrue rumour about Phil Collins and the "story" behind 'In The Air Tonight'? Hi hello, but it's even in that Eminem song now. Did I miss it or what?

― Kim, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

my mum keeps saying that marylin manson bit the head off of a kitten and he was baned from Australia or somewhere i am trying to find out if it's true!

― mysterie, Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

eminem bit off the head of marilyn manson's penis, thinking it was a kitten. he was tripping on pop rocks laced with lsd. manson and em died at 6:66AM and 4:20PM, respectively. their souls reanimated some nearby mannequins, who now stand in their place.

― haterumour (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Dead Kennedy's singer and the bass player having live sex on stage with women (OBVIOUSLY a myth)- Sid Vicious urinating on the audience (he said he would do this in an interview once, but never actually did) - Chrissie Hynde fellating a bandmember on stage (???) - Not a pop star, but Richard Gere turning up at an emergency room with a gerbil stuck up where the sun don't shine.
BTW, Marylin Manson never got banned from Australia but we wish he had've been - but your not allowed to discriminate against tryhard lame w@nkers.

― Madashellandnotgoingtotakeitanymore, Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I heard that Marylin Manson had his cock removed, so that he could suck his own ribs. I have also heard whisper that Led Zeppelin allegedly took turns to fist a camel on the "Houses of the holy" tour, and forced a reporter to lick their hands clean. In 1978, Crummy crutch, of liverpool band "Anal Storm", masturbated to completion an alsatian onstage, and swallowed the resulting fluid, which he then french-kissed into the drummers mouth. he then smeared "Chappie" dog food on his nethers, and the dog returned the compliment.
I have also been informed that Jim Kerr of Smple minds regularly places his glass eye up his rectum, and farts it out into the audience. the lucky finder gets to go backstage after the show.these are all rumours, and, I am not for a second,making a statement of truth. but what is a scientific fact,according to my opinion,is that whatever Eltons hair is made of, it looks fucking stupid.

― dave in liverpool, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

I heard that Marylin Manson had his cock removed, so that he could suck his own ribs. I have also heard whisper's that Led Zeppelin allegedly took turns to Fist a Camel on the "Houses of the holy" tour, and forced a reporter to lick their hands clean. In 1978, Crummy Crutch, of Liverpool band "Anal Storm", masturbated to completion an alsatian onstage, and swallowed the resulting fluid, which he then french-kissed into the drummers mouth. he then smeared "Chappie" dog food on his nethers, and the dog happily returned the compliment.
I have also been informed that Jim Kerr of Smple minds regularly places his glass eye up his rectum, and farts it out into the audience. the lucky finder gets to go backstage after the show.these are all rumours, and, I am not for a second, making a statement of truth. but what is a scientific fact,according to my opinion,is that WHATEVER Eltons hair is made of, it still looks fucking stupid.

― dave in liverpool, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

echo!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

echo!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I like that at Gibby Haynes' college one of the Dean's duties was to inspect the showers for funny business.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Dead Kennedy's singer and the bass player having live sex on stage with women (OBVIOUSLY a myth)

Doesn't _Our Band Could Be Your Life_ report a true story of this type about Gibby?

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I like that at Gibby Haynes' college one of the Dean's duties was to inspect the showers for funny business.

I had never heard the story before, but Trinity U. does have some religious affiliations.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I recall a story about Frankie Marino (of Mahogany Rush fame...who?...yeah, I know) who had apparently never picked up a guitar in his life, but did so on the day Jimi Hendrix died...and of course he starts wailing away, playing sick, unworldy riffage...the rest, as they say, is history...

also: there used to be a story circulating about a curse that would befall anybody who would dare steal Tony Iommi's beloved axe...haven't heard it in some time...perhaps the curse has been lifted...or perhaps would-be thieves have learned their lesson!...mwahahaha...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I heard that Michael Sembello had his testicles removed and placed in his throat so they would always be at an elevated temperature and he could avoid impregnating his many groupies, due to the fact that heat kills sperm.

Also, I read that Peter Wolf from J. Geils Band used to be David Lynch's roommate in college, and that David Lynch kicked him out for being "too weird."

And then I heard that Steve Perry from Journey is married and has a kid.

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

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