I was thinking about the Beatles and their whole "Paul is dead" scam. That is such an awesome publicity stunt. For instance, on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart etc. the cover supposedly shows many things hinting that Paul was in fact deceased, and the current "Paul" was an imposter. Like the car with a bloody interior for example. Does anybody happen to know of any similar stories from other bands or artists? I just find this kind of stuff to be very interesting.
You do know that when I quoted your post in that now glorious, closed thread "I Love You DM" (God rest its soul as it goes off to BBS Heaven) of "Number Nine. Number Nine. etc." there was a reason. Legend has it that if you played "Revolution #9" backwards, you can hear what sounds like "Turn me on dead man." But, yeah, the whole Paul is dead thing was a great urban legend, in my opinion. Here's a good website on the "Paul Is Dead" story:
Not really an urban legend but if you play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and watch the movie The Wizard of Oz... they are in sync... You can also do this with Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and Rush's 2112 album.... there are websites on this phenomenum as well....
I could never get the Pink Floyd thing to work. Have you personally experienced this, rH? I mean, it's all the power of suggestion I think. I've synced "Is This It" to a Rockets game before. ...never mind.
Legend has it that Jimmy Page's fascination with all things Satanic was responsible for a string of misfortunes that befell Zeppelin, including the deaths of drummer John Bonham and Robert Plant's young son. And, of course, there is the ever-present belief that if you play "Stairway to Heaven" backward, you will be innundated with Satanic messages.
whoa, Ms. JB, the second part of your post is scarrrry. I think ima turn the lights and television on now.
This is BS, but a good musical urban legend: Phil Collins is at some beach. He looks out in the water and sees some guy drowning. He yells to some guy in a boat to go save the drowning man. The man tells him to MYOB. Drowning man becomes drowned man. Phil tracks down boat guy, sends him two front row tickets to concert. During concert, he premieres "In the Air Tonight" as he sings it to the boat guy. The boat guy goes home and kills himself. Cool story when I heard it in jr. high. There was a rumor that whenever Jerry Garcia was wearing a black t-shirt, he was tripping. Of course Jerry almost always wore a black t-shirt. I can confirm this: If you play the song "Empty Spaces" on Pink Floyd's The Wall backward, you actually do hear the following the message: "Hello. You have found the backwards message" (Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters...probably not satanic) And if you jack up the volume incredibly loud (to 11, I guess) during "The Great Gig In the Sky" on Dark Side of the Moon, it says "if you can hear this, you are dying"
well the whole tupac is still alive thing. But i dont' know if that counts as an urban legend since we all know it's true.
In the first 3 seconds of the Makaveli album, you hear someone say "Suge shot him" right before the first bell. No one knows if this was intentionaly put on the album by death row for publicity or if someone from death row was trying to get the story out that Suge Knight really did kill Tupac. Here's the website with a ton of interesting Tupac conspiracy theories and it has the clip that says "Suge shot him." http://www.ewsonline.com/2pac/
To combine two artists mentioned in this thread: Phil Collins is in A Hard Day's Night. He really is though, that one's true.
Another Floyd legend. During the studio session for "Careful with that ax Eugene". There is a scream in the background about halfway through the track. You really have to listen for it. The legend goes that a girl was stabbed in the next studio and it was caught on tape. Floyd decided to keep it in. or so they say... Elaborating on the Jerry Garcia one. I heard that the dead would take turns dosing at each performance. Somehow they would do it in a way that no one in the band would know which got it until about 20 minutes into their first set. sort of an LSD russian roulette.
Another one is that the Beatles smoked pot before their Royal Command performance before the Queen to calm their nerves. which was probably true.
Same story, different band. At the beginning of School on Supertramp’s Crime of the Century you hear screaming that doesn’t fit with the music. Same explanation.
Jimmy Page did have a fascination with the occult and black magic in general, but the way I heard was that the band Led Zeppelin sold their souls to the devil in order to attain instant success. That is, everyone but John Paul Jones, who distanced himself from the rest of the band members. And in the end, John Paul Jones was the only member that didn't have some horrible drug addiction or terrible tragedy befall him. Bonham dying, Plant's son dying, Page's addiction to cocaine (I think it was). I believe their manager had some problems as well. Incidentally, I got all that information from a book called Hammer of the Gods, which is a pretty good read about Zeppelin.
John liked saying that (it tied in nicely with his 'I'm a working class rebel' obsession), but George (who seemed to be the cranky watchdog over all things bullsh*t about John *and* Paul, bless him) said they just had a cigarette in the loos. Can anyone confirm if Frank Sinatra actually *did* eat scrambled eggs off a hooker's butt?
