Rock Myth #35

Greek sandals are the preferred footwear of wrinkly, leathery rocker Iggy Pop. He abhors clogs.

Rock Myth #34

Sprightly teeny boppers, S-Club 7, split up in 2002 citing stress as the main reason. Actually, it was the pressure of constantly having to prove that there really was no party like an S-club party.

Rock Myth #33

34 years after its first release, Saturday Night Is STILL The Night For Fighting for Elton John.

Rock Myths #32

Saviour of Christmas, Cliff Richard, is banned from 8 US States and the District of Columbia for turkey-related offences.

Rock Myths #31

Irish skiffle group, Snow Patrol, were joined for a short time by Shane McGowan on lead vocals. However, he left after a fateful night at a gig in Tipperary when he briefly sobered up enough to realise that they were not, in fact, the Pogues. His vocals do still remain on the band's anthemic UK breakthrough, 'Run' - if you listen closely you will hear Streams of Whisky being screeched in the background of the chorus.

Rock Myths #30

Legendary Star of Rock and Roll Barry Manilow's 80s parties were infamous for their hyped up debauchery... Skateboards being thrown into swimming pools, trouser presses hurled from windows, dwarves circulating with trays of Skittles on their heads were all reportedly part of it. Barry denies all, however, claiming that all the while he was knee deep in coke and leather clad eunuchs round at Elton's.

Rock Myths #29

While William Hartnell first played Doctor Who on BBC TV, the original local radio series, on BBC Radio Cumberland, starred Leo Sayer as the "Good Doctor" and was axed after 5 minutes of the first show due to BBC airwaves becoming frazzled by the "Shoreham Screamer's" shrill tone.

Rock Myths #28

Drinking 3 litres a day of bats blood has kept Gary Barlow's skin in the same condition as it was when he was 10 years old.

Rock Myths #27

No member of Right Said Fred can turn left

Rock Myths #26

Keith Moon was based on Animal, the drummer from The Muppets.

Rock Myths #25

On a recent Canadian chatshow Bernie Taupin revealed his staunch homophobia made life working with Elton John a little strained, while Brian Wilson confirmed rumours that shots of him winking in the video for Wouldn't It Be Nice were in fact of his brother Dennis as Brian himself has not been able to wink since the age of 7.

Rock Myths #24

The character of Phil Mitchell in hit BBC docu-soap Eastenders was based on former Genesis drummer and star of Buster, Phil Collins. Although they had to scale down his homeless-love.

Rock Myths #23

Charlie from Busted has 2 Ivor Novello Songwriting Awards.

He stole them from Chris De Burgh.

Rock Myths #22

Freddie Starr might have eaten my hamster but Freddie Mercury never ate a chutney ferret.

Rock Myth # 21

If you look very closely, and I mean VERY closely at Art Garfunkel´s hair, you can see that he has taken the effort to number each strand in reverse order starting with #1,000,000,000 in 1982. When he gets down to 0 he intends to kill himself.

Rock Myths #20

Mark Knopfler provided Girls Aloud with that famous guitar riff for their huge number one hit 'Love Machine'. It is also Knopfler's voice for the line " Loving me is as easy as pie", and not that of Nicola Roberts, as is depicted in the famous 'Eskimo Bar' video.

Rock Myths #19

80s bopper, Billy Idol, only ever refers to himself in the third person.

Rock Myths #18

Due to a fear of bloodsucking Tsetse Flies, Steve Porcaro of Eighties cheese-rock-mongers Toto refused to take his band to tour the entire African continent during his touring days with them. Ironically when they finally did tour in the late Eighties, after Porcaro had 'taken a back seat' the 1st meal they were served in a Nairobi restaurant was fried Tsetse Flies in a coconut sauce - otherwise known as Rosanna-style , a dish the band would later incarnate in song form on the hit track "Hold The Line".

Rock Myths #17

One hit wonderers Deep Blue Something named themselves in respect to Lake Tanganyika after the band, formerly known as The Georges (no relation) toured sub-saharan Africa. Their big hit, Breakfast At Tiffany's, was written after the band had just watched the Audrey Hepburn classic, My Fair Lady.

Rock Myths #16

'Pint-sized' guitarist and hero of symbol-monikered people across the world, Prince, is actually more than all he's made out to be. When graduating from high school in the 70s Prince joined local band 'Larger Than Life', a group of freakishly tall bluesmen who saw in their young protege a talent unrivalled. On their rise they decided to drop the group name and perform as Prince's backing band and have continued as such to this day.

Thus, with a backing band of an average height of 7ft 3 inches, Prince appears to be a midget on stage when he is in fact 5 foot 11, a comfortable half foot taller than Lenny Kravitz.

Rock Myths #15

Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey is actually the son of BBC Top Gear presenter, and former Jean Wearer of the Year (1997), Jeremy Clarkson. Goffey, a committed environmentalist, disowned his father when he caught him slaughtering a batch of squirrels in the en suite bathroom of their second home in Surrey.

Rock Myths #14

Miserable former Smiths front man, Morrisey, thought that he was the first songwriter to include Humberside in a song (Panic). However, when slowed down, the Northern English county can clearly be heard being sung by Little Richard on his Rock smash hit "A Wop Bop a Loo Bop a Wam Bam Boom"!

Rock Myths #13

The writer of the pop classic "One of Us", Joan Osbourne, isn't actually a real person. Ozzy Osbourne revealed in a Rolling Stone interview in 2007 that it was actually him in drag:

"...it was a fucking crazy time in my life you know man. For about four years I thought I was two different people, myself and this crazy bitch Joan. It took me fucking ages to get all dressed up, sometimes Sharon had to lend me some of her gear. That song, "One of Us", actually came from a conversation I had with Joan on the way to work one morning. I must have looked a right fucking sight sitting on the bus all dragged-up talking to myself about God! And you know, nobody ever questioned why we were never seen together at award ceremonies! Fucking press are fucking idiots ain't they?"

Rock Myths # 12

Everyone knows the alleged story of how Gordon Sumner became Sting - as a result of wearing an orange and black hooped jumper - but few know the truth he tried to suppress: Sting is actually a shortening of 'Stingy' meaning tight-fisted or mean, and was a result of his refusal to get a round in for the other members of The Police during the first 5 years of their career. When he finally did buy Messrs Copeland and Summers a tipple it was, ironically, a large schooner of fermented honey drink Mead...

Rock Myths #11

When Katie Melua was 15, she left home in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, telling her parents that she would only return to the family house when she had accomplished her dream of learning to become a proper lyricist.

Her parents have since taken in a poor Kazakh family as lodgers to fill the empty space in their hearts.

Rock Myths #10

British smackhead, Pete Doherty, is fluent in 13 languages.