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Mar 28, 2009 23:30:04 GMT -5 beatlies said:

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Great Music Mysteries, Hoaxes, and Scams

Posted Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:33pm PDT by Shawn Amos in GetBack

All the Jacko fans are in Jacko heaven. Starting this spring, anyone who wants a piece of Michael Jackson can get one: his personal belongings are scheduled for auction in April, and then in July he'll start his 50-show run in London. You can buy his glove and wear it to the concert.

But, of course, along with all the excitement about Jackson's return are rumors. There's always a rumor with Michael. Chatter is swirling that the dude at his recent press conference announcing the upcoming concerts was NOT actually Jackson. His voice was too deep, his chin too fake (something "too fake" on Jacko?), his walk was not Michael's usual gait.

If you ask me, I think he's probably with Elvis on a Tahitian island being served drinks by Jim Morrison. And they're all reading about Amy Winehouse's space-alien love child in the latest issue of National Enquirer. For their amusement and yours, I offer up these other musicians who've been the subject of scams, hoaxes, and mysteries through the years. You can file them next to your Oliver Stone DVD collection. Or next to your Joaquin Phoenix rap albums.



GALLERY: See the greatest music hoaxes of all time.



"MAMA" CASS ELLIOT

Choked to Death on a Ham Sandwich
Like many rumors, this one began with a hint of truth. The Mamas & The Papas singer had just played two sold-out shows at the London Palladium when she died in her sleep from a heart attack. A sandwich was found in her room, hence the ham sandwich story. However, an autopsy found no food in her throat.



PAUL McCARTNEY

"Paul Is Dead" Rumor

Probably the biggest rock hoax of all time, the "Paul Is Dead" rumor began in 1969 when some dude called WKNR radio in Detroit, made the pronouncement, and asked the DJ to play "Revolution 9" backward as proof ("turn me on, dead man"). As if that hard evidence wasn't strong enough, clues on the "Abbey Road" cover (Paul is the only one not wearing shoes) cemented the "fact" that Paul died in a car crash after storming out of a "Sgt. Pepper's" recording session. He was supposedly replaced by a lookalike who plays his part to this day. Hard to argue with cold logic like that.


MILEY CYRUS

"Miley Is Dead" Rumor

While not on the level of Sir Paul, our little Hannah Montana was the object of her own death rumor in 2008. Seems that some hackers got onto the singer's "Miley and Mandy Show" YouTube page and posted a two-minute video with a message supposedly from Miley's buddy Mandy Jiroux. The pranksters told horrified fans that a drunk driver had killed their teen heroine.



CHARLES MANSON

Once Auditioned for "The Monkees"

Even though Manson copped the Beatles' "Helter Skelter," he did not audition to be one of their TV alter-egos. Manson was actually doing jail time in 1965 when his audition was allegedly held. Manson did, however, make his own records, which have been covered by Guns N' Roses and Marilyn Manson. No word on whether he auditioned for them.




DAVID BOWIE & MICK JAGGER

Slept Together

This one may contain a bit of truth. Bowie's ex-wife, Angela, spoke in 1990 about finding her then-husband and the Rolling Stones frontman naked in bed together. Freed from a 10-year gag order, she was eager to reveal some dirt. However, in the days following the revelation, Angie started back-pedaling and claimed that the two men had merely "passed out" next to each other.



PHIL COLLINS

"In the Air Tonight" Was Written After Witnessing a Woman Drown

Phil Collins' debut solo album, "Face Value," was written in the aftermath of a painful divorce. Such songs as "If Leaving Me Is Easy" and "You Know What I Mean" make Collins' situation pretty clear. So do the wealth of interviews Collins has given talking about... how he made an album about his painful divorce. That hasn't stopped numerous urban legends about the album's most popular song. They all involve Collins witnessing a woman drowning. In some versions, Collins is too drunk to help her. In other versions, Collins invites the killer to his show so he can out him. Now THAT would make a Phil Collins concert worth seeing.



KISS

Their name means "Knights in Satan's Service"
What could cause people to think that KISS is an acronym for such a horrific phrase? The fake blood? The Nazi-era "SS" used as their logo? Or maybe it was an interview that Gene Simmons gave to Circus magazine in the '70s, in which he wondered what human flesh tastes like. Take your pick, and let the rumor-fest begin.



WHITE STRIPES

Meg & Jack Are Brother and Sister

Jack and Meg White built their band and career on rumors, many of which they started. When their 1999 self-titled debut was released, they had many believing that they were brother and sister. In reality, Meg and Jack were a separated couple who would officially divorce in 2000 after four years of marriage.




MARILYN MANSON

He's the Geeky Sidekick from "The Wonder Years"

Take one look at Marilyn Manson with his dilated pupils, heavy make-up, and tattoos. Now squint your eyes. More. More. A little more. Who do you see? That's right, it's Paul from the TV show "The Wonder Years." NOT. Chalk this one up to the Internet black hole. Josh Saviano, the actor who played Kevin's sidekick, says he gets e-mails every week asking him if he's Manson.


ELVIS PRESLEY

Is Alive and Working at 7-11

This rumor is true. I saw him. He served me a Big Gulp just after midnight in Bakersfield. He looked a lot like Joaquin Phoenix.


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1. D33PPURPLE - Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:01pm PDT
Some nice ones, but you missed these:

1. The lead singer of Cake died because he got run over by a cake truck

2. Okay, this one is sick. Amos, you know the band Mayhem? One of it's members commited suicide, and one of the remaining member's found his body, photographed it, made a necklece out of his skull, and ate his brain in a stew.

My research shows that the photograph and skull necklace is real, but the brain stew is a rumour.

3. Anything Jeff Godwin has alleged

I know I'm missing one, just forgot it...
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2. DUDE - Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:36pm PDT
....Then there's the rumour about Ozzy...Oh,.wait,....they're all true!!
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3. Yahoo! Music User - Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:44pm PDT
OMG! I saw Elvis 2! I asked him how he liked the economy. No response. But (I know, shocking) he was rotting in a grave in Tennessee, so I SHOULD'VE expected anything!!
Nice,man.
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4. Mike K: MCP President - Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:51pm PDT
On Miley: I kinda blame myself. 2006: I looked up Steve Irwin on Wikipedia, he died. 2007: Brett Sommers, she dies. 2008: Bernie Mac/Miley Cyrus. Mac dies, Miley survives with a loop hole. Either the curse is still going on and Annie Sleazy [profane], Hugh Hefner, Dan Quayle, or Caitlin Upton croaks or Miley broke the Wikipedia curse.
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5. l.l_pencil - Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:31pm PDT
amazing what lies come from the truth
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6. odhaneku - Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:27am PDT
lol man
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7. troy7892 - Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:16am PDT
I just saw Elvis!!.....He now drives a bus for Greyhound!!
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8. troy7892 - Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:21am PDT
Oh.....And, D33P, Godwin is indeed a moron!!!
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9. e-a-d-g dude - Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:45am PDT
I live near Bakersfield and actuall the 7-11 is in Oildale. Check the map, it's there. (he works the graveyard shift, 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.)
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10. MaNsOn - Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:56am PDT
ohhhhhhhhhhh GGREAT LIST GREAT LIST I LOVED READING IT!
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11. mikez34 - Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:18am PDT
I've always heard the brain thing is true, although a very very small piece of brain just to say he did it.
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12. barkleydupont - Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:10am PDT
wut about stairway to heaven being a satanic manifesto or whatever, if u play it backwards?
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13. ponygurl_65 - Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:19am PDT
SHAWN AMOS, you write the most boring, biased crap I have ever read in my entire life. I especially found derisive your comment about how you questioned if Miley Cyrus dating a 20 year old was legal 'even in Nashville'. You are obviously stupid if you don't realize the prejudices and incorrect stereotypes you are implying or perhaps you haven't traveled enough to know the difference. Please educate your dumb azz before you write about things you know nothing of.
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14. Aaron - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:50pm PDT
I never believed Paul was dead even after reading about the clues and seeing the "evidence" I still don't, but it is interesting.
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15. Yahoo! Music User - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:52pm PDT
ya im pretty sure the brain thing is true for Mayhem, also, did you know that the rest of the band now wears pieces of their singers skull destroyed by the shotgun, sounds like a rumor, but def true
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16. ty - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:52pm PDT
one of the biggest one i heard of was that when the sex pistols went to a ramones gig in england in 76 johnny ramone pissed in johnny rottens beer and rotten drank most of it....from what i read and can tell so far its true hence rottens hate for the pistols
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17. reallyloveyou999 - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:53pm PDT
It is wrong for a man have a rich woman or a woman have a

wealthy man?

It is an absolutely extramarital relationship. but more and

more services come out on Internet focusing on this kind of

relationship.

such as seekamillionaire.com/

it's the biggest dating site for wealthy and suclessful

people.
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18. HaydenJ - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:55pm PDT
If that rumor was true about the band KISS, than that would really really scare me, though I really don't think it is--that'd just be too weird.
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19. DN - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:57pm PDT
That internet sex tape of Meg White is true!?
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20. Brian S - Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:58pm PDT

Lol if only the miley one wasn't a hoax.

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PAUL McCARTNEY

"Paul Is Dead" Rumor

Probably the biggest rock hoax of all time, the "Paul Is Dead" rumor began in 1969 when some dude called WKNR radio in Detroit, made the pronouncement, and asked the DJ to play "Revolution 9" backward as proof ("turn me on, dead man"). As if that hard evidence wasn't strong enough, clues on the "Abbey Road" cover (Paul is the only one not wearing shoes) cemented the "fact" that Paul died in a car crash after storming out of a "Sgt. Pepper's" recording session. He was supposedly replaced by a lookalike who plays his part to this day. Hard to argue with cold logic like that.

LOL! Ok, what about the fact that Paul & Faul don't look alike? Well, they do to a certain extent, but they're clearly not the same person. The "dude" who called in to Russ Gibb's radio show called himself "Tom." Finally, Paul didn't die in any "car crash" - imo.

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[FAUL] McCartney says meditation helped stabilize Beatles

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The surviving members of the Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, will perform at a concert on Saturday to raise funds to help children learn a meditation technique McCartney said helped stabilize the band at the height of its fame.

McCartney and Starr will perform separate sets at the "Change Begins Within" concert for the David Lynch Foundation, which helps people learn Transcendental Meditation.

The Beatles helped popularize Transcendental Meditation -- described as a simple mental technique that combats stress -- in 1967 when they sought spiritual guidance from an Indian guru, [mystic faker CIA SHILL designed to divert young people away from politics/intellectual discussion/anti-war and anti-capitalist activism-]Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

"It was a great gift that Maharishi gave us," McCartney told a news conference on Friday to promote the concert. "For me, it came at a time when we were looking for something to kind of stabilize us toward the end of the crazy '60s."

"It's a lifelong gift. It's something you can call on at any time," he said. "I think it's a great thing it's actually coming into the mainstream."

Starr also described Transcendental Meditation as a gift and that since learning it more than 40 years ago "sometimes a lot and sometimes a little I have meditated."

The lineup for the concert at famed Radio City Music Hall also includes Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, blues-folk musician Ben Harper and techno star Moby.

Filmmaker David Lynch's foundation says that since 2005 it has provided scholarships for more than 100,000 at-risk young people, teachers and parents in 30 countries to learn Transcendental Meditation.

The concert is intended to raise funds toward the foundation's goal of helping a million children learn to meditate.

"I feel like I'm at a meeting of meditators anonymous," Moby joked. "I just learned T.M. recently because I was raised by hippies, and to be honest with you anything associated with T.M. and hippies scared ... me."

"When I was growing up, I thought T.M. involved ritual animal sacrifice and moving to some country and renouncing wealth and materialism and eating bugs. But one of the things that impressed me about T.M. ... was its simplicity," he said. "It's a simple practice that calms the mind."
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[sirwalterraleigh]

I just would like to cover a couple of things that no one seems to have addressed here. The first is that in EVERY "Faul" image that I have seen compared to "Paul", the shape of the eyes is exactly the same. His nose may have changed, he may have gotten thinner, worn heels, etc, but one thing that is IMPOSSIBLE to fake, eye shape, has remained the same throughout the years. They even lack symmetry in the exact same way. The folds of skin are even the same. Not to mention the shape of the occipital orbits. This is bone structure, plain and simple.

Now to address the eye color. Paul's eye color has been DOCUMENTED as hazel. If I could get my hands on a birth certificate, I'm almost CERTAIN I would find hazel listed there. Especially since even in places in the movie HELP! You can see hints of green in his eyes, and they clearly look dark hazel in this early photo [albeit technicolor, i believe].

Now, taking into consideration that Paul may have had hazel eyes, the change in color is unsurprising. My own father, who has never worn contact lenses, started out life with very dark, mostly brown hazel eyes, and as he has aged, they have become lighter and lighter, even looking blue on occasion! Especially when the light is strong like it is in the photo where Paul's [or Faul's, as you might like to say] eyes look blue. Everyone knows that bright sunlight brings out the lighter combs in the iris.

I'm not saying I don't believe, but I'm definitely not saying I do.

[The Mask]

Paul's eyes were brown. John's eyes were hazel.

[sirwalterraleigh]

In 1964, Teen Screen Life Story printed a magazine all about Paul. It contained interviews with Paul and the other Beatles on Paul. In the interview, he states his eye color is hazel.

[faulconandsnowjob]

Paul did supposedly say his eyes were hazel, but they were still darker than Faul's.

This picture alone pretty much closes the case, as far as I'm concerned.

[sirwalterraleigh]

They look fairly light here.

Not to mention the fact that the eyes become lighter as we age due to calcium deposits in the irises and general color loss [many people experience this in their eyes, not just their hair]

And the fact that people with hazel eyes often shift eye color due to lighting and eye irritation [many people with hazel eyes become very green-eyed when they cry]

Not to mention the fact that most of the pre-1966 photos were taken with low-resolution cameras and were often technicolored or black and white and thus much less reliable than the digital SLR camera that the latter photo was probably taken with.

[faulconandsnowjob]

This argument has been made before unsuccessfully. Paul's eyes are still not the same color as Faul's.

[sirwalterraleigh]

You just tried to use a black and white photo to argue a difference in eye color.

[The Mask]

Apr 21, 2009 20:33:38 GMT -5 sirwalterraleigh said:

In 1964, Teen Screen Life Story printed a magazine all about Paul. It contained interviews with Paul and the other Beatles on Paul. In the interview, he states his eye color is hazel.

Everybody wants hazel eyes.

[faulconandsnowjob]

You just tried to use a black and white photo to argue a difference in eye color.

Didn't you notice the color pictures of brown-eyed Paul? Did you not notice that the comp I posted showed a gray-blue eyed Faul on the right? But if you want color pictures of brown-eyed Paul (or hazel), then here you go.










Paul's brown or dark hazel eyes:

[sherlok]

Apr 21, 2009 21:11:25 GMT -5 sirwalterraleigh said:

Not to mention the fact that most of the pre-1966 photos were taken with low-resolution cameras and were often technicolored or black and white and thus much less reliable than the digital SLR camera that the latter photo was probably taken with.

As a photographer I have to say that the above statement is just too
ignorant for words. It is so ignorant, in fact, that I can't even begin to
dissect it due to the uncontrollable laughter that overtakes me
whenever I try. That has to be one of the stupidest things ever
written on the subject of photography.

In the future I suggest you stick with comments on topics you know
something about as you obviously know nothing about photography
much less the history of cameras, photo materials and processes.