Myths and Legends Today's "My Three Songs," from Richard Baum of St. Paul, concerned myths and "urban legends" in music. The scream during "Love Rollercoaster," the whole "Paul is dead" thing, bluesman Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. I was trying to think of some others, and the only one I came up with concerned an emergency-room visit by Rod Stewart (alternate version to that one: Michael Jackson). *Ahem*. Anybody think of any others? Please, keep the discussion rated G. Posted by Steve Seel at 12:36 PM
I just came here from Snopes, since I hadn't heard the one about Love Rollercoaster. http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/hidden.asp http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/songs.asp And it was Elton John who got his stomach pumped. (Okay, not really.) KISS legends: Gene Simmons had part of a cow tongue grafted onto his own. Frank Zappa: FZ won a "gross out contest" after eating certain material on stage. (search for yourself) Alice Cooper: Oh yeah! There was another one about Alice Cooper, which I think might be a variation on the Frank Zappa "gross-out contest" one. Remember? Passing a pitcher around the audience, et cetera. Yuck, I'm feeling sick just remembering that one. I'd forgotton all the Kiss ones. There's also the one about the dinner that somebody had attended, supposedly where all the members of the band said grace beforehand and were civil and even quasi-Christian, ostensibly dis-proving the other myth (!) about their Satanic tendencies. Funny. There was also an urban legend about the Electric Light Orchestra's first album in 1970. Supposedly the album was released without a title in the UK. But United Artists, the American label, wanted the album to have a title for its release here. So someone from United Artists called London to ask the band's manager what title the album should have. The caller couldn't get through, and wrote the words "No answer" on the notepad. Through some clerical error, the album was released in the United States as "No Answer". Seems too good to be true, but that's the story. What about the Pink Floyd stuff? The Wall? Backwards message, etc... How do you do that with a cd nowadays? |