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On the subject of death and rock myths (though this factually checks out) you've also got Marc Bolan singing "Easy as picking foxes from a tree" before crashing his FOX-reg car into a tree in Barnes.
 
droid

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I dont think thats a myth. AFAIK the story came from his wife, It was still on the turntable when she found his body.
 
IdleRich

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I reckon there are more Hollywood ones even than music ones. Johnny Stompaneto, the woman who was eaten by her dog (allegedly) and I like the one with Paul Bern who was husband of Jean Harlow. It seems that he died in mysterious circumstances in their marital home and when the butler found him, rather than call the police, they summoned Louis Mayer and the security head of the studio who spent ours cleaning and arranging the scene before calling the authorities who conveniently ruled it a suicide.
 
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In my days of fraternising with Soho pub scumbags, I once met a theatrical old queen, a veteran of Tin Pan Alley, who told me the following horrific but strangely believable story: apparently, the manager of '80s pop group Dollar, incensed by the band demanding more royalties (I think, can't remember the exact dispute - maybe it was a tax write-off), decided to set the Dollar bloke up with a diseased whore, so he'd contract syphilis and pass it on to the Dollar woman - effectively causing a scandal and splitting the pair up. Or maybe he wanted to fuck the Dollar woman, I can't remember now.
 
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One of The Clash used to regularly visit a London dominatrix around '79/'80. Nobody seems to know which one, I'm going with Mick Jones personally.
 
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Mick Harvey recalls the exploratory and experimental nature of the sessions with a rather wonderful anecdote. "I famously came back after a whole night's sleep, and I came in and Blixa was there, still in the studio. He'd been in there all night and he was still doing the same guitar overdub. But in fact what he was actually doing, after eight hours, was tuning. He had been tuning his guitar all night. So, you can start to understand the condition we were in."
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Never mind that - I want to know which dominatrix!
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Oh that bit's easy - your mum.

I also heard the 'Stevie Wonder can see' rumour - isn't there some TV footage where he (EDIT - Version posted it, it was a mic stand not a 12 year old girl)
 
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Mr. Tea

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martin said:
I also heard the 'Stevie Wonder can see' rumour - isn't there some TV footage where he (EDIT - Version posted it, it was a mic stand not a 12 year old girl)
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Well who hasn't confused a mic stand with a 12 year old girl?

(On a more boring note: isn't it the case that some people are functionally blind but have some limited ability to see things close up?)
 
Mr. Tea

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I like Jonathan Meades's personal conspiracy theory that ABBA weren't Swedish at all but were actually "two taxi drivers from Hamburg and their porn star wives".
 
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Goldie's claimed that Mark Rutherford temporarily lost his eyesight whilst they were working on Terminator and that he had to move his arm around for him in order to finish the tune.

 
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