Rolling Stone's 25 Best Rock Rumors Ever [2007]

Entertainment: Music Rolling Stone

(April 2 2007) ------- #1. Paul McCartney is or has ever been dead. * #2. Stevie Nicks' assistant had to blow coke up Stevie's ass due to Nicks' destroyed nasal passages. * #3. Mama Cass died after choking on a ham sandwich. * #4. Angie Bowie caught her husband in bed with Mick Jagger. * #5. Mark David Chapman was an assassin programmed by the CIA. * #6. Members of Led Zeppelin pleased a teenage groupie using a red snapper/shark as their sex toy of choice. * #7. Jim Morrison was killed by members of the Nixon administration/faked his own death/died from a heart attack brought on by masturbating in a Parisian bathtub. * #8. Deborah Harry was once abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. * #9. Keith Moon drove a car into a Holiday Inn pool on his 21st birthday, knocked out a couple of teeth and got the Who banned for life from all Holiday Inns. * #10. Gene Simmons had a cow tongue grafted onto his own tongue after a car accident. * #11. Rod Stewart/Lil' Kim/Jordan Knight had to get their respective stomachs pumped after ingesting a gallon of semen. * #12. During a drug bust on Mick's place Marianne Faithfull was once found with a Mars bar between her legs. * #13. Marilyn Manson had his lowest set of ribs removed so he could blow himself. * #14. Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa attempted to gross each other out by shitting onstage, then eating it. * #15. Bob Marley was assassinated/given cancer in his toe by the CIA. * #16. Phil Collins' tune “In the Air Tonight” was written after Collins witnessed a gruesome incident in which one man let another man drown. * #17. Keith Richards routinely has in the past/continues today to get full-body blood transfusions. * #18. Jack and Meg White are brother and sister. * #19. 'Hotel California' is about a Christian church that was abandoned then taken over by Satan worshipers, the Eagles are Satan worshipers and Satan him (or her) self appears in the window on the album jacket. * #20. Bob Ezrin, who produced Lou Reed's Berlin, got the anguished children's cries you hear on “The Kids” by telling his own children their mother was dead and recording the sounds they made. * #21. Pearl Jam was named after a peyote-infused jam Eddie Vedder's grandmother used to make. * #22. Charles Manson auditioned for the Monkees. * #23. Marilyn Manson played Kevin Arnold's friend Paul Pfeiffer on the Wonder Years. * #24. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his guitar-playing gifts. * #25. Roy Orbison was an albino and wore dark glasses because he was blind.

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Vote RankingList Ranking  

4

1

Paul McCartney

Vocalist

59.24% (375 of 633 votes)

18

2

Stevie Nicks

Vocalist

35.71% (15 of 42 votes)

32

3

Mama Cass Elliot

Vocalist

25.00% (3 of 12 votes)

21

4

David Bowie

Vocalist

35.29% (12 of 34 votes)

24

4

Mick Jagger

Vocalist

34.72% (25 of 72 votes)

37

4

Angela Bowie

Celebrity's Relative

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

5

Mark David Chapman

Assassin

60.05% (266 of 443 votes)

29

6

Led Zeppelin

Musicians

30.41% (52 of 171 votes)

27

7

Jim Morrison

Vocalist

30.61% (30 of 98 votes)

8

8

Ted Bundy

Murderer

52.78% (190 of 360 votes)

12

8

Deborah Harry

Vocalist

46.77% (87 of 186 votes)

5

9

The Who

Musicians

55.77% (29 of 52 votes)

6

9

Keith Moon

Musician

53.49% (23 of 43 votes)

13

10

Gene Simmons

Vocalist

44.26% (27 of 61 votes)

7

11

Rod Stewart

Vocalist

52.88% (110 of 208 votes)

17

11

Lil' Kim

Vocalist

38.18% (21 of 55 votes)

22

11

Jordan Knight

Vocalist

35.29% (18 of 51 votes)

23

12

Mick Jagger

Vocalist

34.72% (25 of 72 votes)

26

12

Marianne Faithfull

Vocalist

30.82% (225 of 730 votes)

30

13

Marilyn Manson

Vocalist

28.86% (127 of 440 votes)

11

14

Frank Zappa

Vocalist

50.0% (6 of 12 votes)

38

14

Alice Cooper

Vocalist

0% (0 of 3 votes)

15

15

C.I.A. - Central Intelligence Agency

Organization

42.11% (56 of 133 votes)

19

15

Bob Marley

Vocalist

35.48% (11 of 31 votes)

14

16

Phil Collins

Vocalist

43.14% (44 of 102 votes)

16

17

Keith Richards

Vocalist

38.89% (7 of 18 votes)

2

18

Jack White

Musician

60.82% (236 of 388 votes)

33

18

Meg White

Musician

8.33% (1 of 12 votes)

36

18

White Stripes

Musicians

0% (0 of 2 votes)

1

19

Eagles

Musicians

71.43% (5 of 7 votes)

9

19

Satan

Oddity

52.03% (475 of 913 votes)

10

20

Lou Reed

Musician

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

41

20

Bob Ezrin

Producer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

20

21

Pearl Jam

Musicians

35.38% (23 of 65 votes)

28

21

Eddie Vedder

Musician

30.61% (45 of 147 votes)

25

22

Charles Manson

Cultist

33.69% (159 of 472 votes)

35

22

The Monkees

Musicians

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

23

Marilyn Manson

Vocalist

28.86% (127 of 440 votes)

39

23

Wonder Years

TV Series

0% (0 of 2 votes)

34

24

Robert Johnson (Musician)

Musician

5.71% (2 of 35 votes)

40

25

Roy Orbison

Vocalist

0% (0 of 1 votes)