Rock Myth #101

If you listen to Guns And Roses' album Appetite For Destruction backwards you will within 36 hours find yourself naked, covered in orange paint and tied to a chair in Axl Rose's drawing room.

Rock Myth #100

You won't always find Jona Lewie in the kitchen at parties. Occasionally you'll find him in the basement being whipped incessantly by dwarves.

Rock Myth #99

Master of hair and solos Brian May must at all times be no fewer than 30 feet away from other Queen band members whilst on stage, and no fewer than 50 feet from Paul Rodgers at all times.

Rock Myth #98

Band perennially used as yardstick for other hard-to-classify bands Arcade Fire were recently voted at a meeting of the Arcade Fire fan club "Band that sounds least like Arcade Fire".

Rock Myth #97

The weather in Amarillo is directly proportional to the level of Tony Christie's endorphins.

Rock Myth #96

At any given moment 1 of Def Leppard is standing, 1 is sitting and the other is playing the oboe.

Rock Myth #95

Gene Simmons plays a bass guitar made entirely of compressed issues of the Wall Street Journal.

Rock Myth #94

Squealing, whingeing monster of alternative rock Thom Yorke has a fear of singing in the key of F and once spent 2 days quivering under a table when he accidentally slipped into Yesterday whilst jamming with Paul McCartney.

Rock Myth #93

Reggae legends and creators of Smash Hits Magazine's "Most Erotic Track" (1993) 'Tease Me' Chaka Demus & Pliers now run a successful hardware store in Kingston, Jamaica.

Rock Myth #92

During Chris Lowe's 10 minute keyboard solos at their late 80s gigs his Pet Shop Boys' bandmate Neil Tennant used to pop off to canvas for the Labour party in the audience, and it is thought it was greatly down to his influence that Tony Blair got re-elected at the 1987 election.

Rock Myth #91

80% of male drivers in the 45-65 age group stopped for speeding in the UK in 2007 were found to be under the influence of Dire Straits.

Rock Myth #90

Blonde-haired free-loving free spirit Jockney 'Big' Rod Stewart was born in international waters and is thus subject to an international dispute of ownership rights.

Rock Myth #89

As a child electronic punk wizard of Hammersmith Gary Numan was briefly famous as the face of Penguin publishing.

Rock Myth #88

When Queen decided to reform with former Free front-man, Paul Rodgers, they originally went with the name "May, Rodgers, Taylor". It was only after fans repeatedly posted lude video's of themselves dressed as their heroes on a popular adult website that they realised they had created an eponymous double-entendre. Since then the band have played under the name "Queen and Paul Rodgers".

Rock Myth #87

Football playboy Iain Dowie played trombone for Bad Manners on their album Return of the Ugly.

Rock Myth #86

Jimi Hendrix was disqualified from the 1968 London International Chess Exhibition after attempting to move his bishop from b3 to c5 using his teeth whilst holding the chess board behind his head. He later commented that had he been allowed to continue he'd have had his opponent, then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, in mate in 3.

Rock Myth #85

Matt Bellamy of Muse has been trying to grow a mullet for 10 years but every time it reaches close to maturity his head is mysteriously shaved in the night by undercover assailants.

Rock Myth #84

Radiohead met during a bar brawl in Abingdon which Jonny Greenwood had started over a game of cribbage.

Rock Myth #83

Les Dawson taught Alicia Keys to play the piano.

Rock Myth #82

The Klaxons started out life as an ironic tribute to the Jacksons.

Rock Myth #81

Late great Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Keith 'Syd' Barrett was the original illustrator for Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men series of children's books.

Rock Myth #80

At the time of going to press 93.2% of UK adults aged 18-35 had experienced the Doves live in concert. Of that group 90% rated the experience as "yeah not bad I think, but I wouldn't go out & buy an album or anything", with the other 10% just mumbling "it was a festival, there were a lot of drugs about..." and drifting off.

Rock Myth #79

Alanis Morisette's twin brother Wade understands the true meaning of the word "ironic".

Rock Myth #78

Eric Clapton wrote the song "Cocaine" about his pet dog of the same name who refused to lie down at obedience classes.

Rock Myth #77

Man in need of a diary to keep track of which stage of his weekly relationship he has reached, Craig David, was recently ousted from the Beard Liberation Front after it was revealed that for much of the past 10 years he had been glueing on to his face discarded chow-mein noodles from his local Oriental Garden restaurant in Havant.

Rock Myths #76

In a recent survey under controlled conditions, 9 out of 10 cats preferred Kris Kristofferson.

Rock Myth #75

"Super Trouper"  was submitted by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus to George Lucas for the soundtrack of Star Wars, but was refused after the Trilogy director cut the Stormtrooper training montage sequence from Part IV.

Rock Myth #74

Many of the world's greatest rock and metal bands were actually named after characters from the Biggles series of adventure books for children. In Biggles Flies Again (1934) our bespectacled hero flies into battle with his schooltime friends Jack Sabbath and Fred Zeppelin whilst in Biggles in Africa (1936) he first meets his arch-nemesis Brian Maiden.
Furthermore, in Biggles in the Orient (1945) our intrepid dare-devil wins the heart of sexy German spy Stacey Deesee before rescuing his commander, Jeff Leopard, from behind enemy lines. Members of these bands have always denied this link between their names and Biggles but sources have recently revealed that it is seen as a rock in-joke.

Rock Myth #73

Not only did middle-aged hard rock lothario David E Grohl play every instrument and sing every vocal on the Foo Fighters' first eponymous album, he personally operated the CD pressing plant that printed the first 1,000 copies. One of these copies, recognisable by its serial number, recently fetched $50,000 at a New York auction house.

Rock Myth #72

In a recent episode of BBC2 current affairs quiz Never Mind The Buzzcocks Jo Whiley admitted publicly for the first time that she doesn't actually like Coldplay. Later after DNA testing she was fined £3000 plus costs for posting a box of her own faeces to the band's singer Chris Martin's house and kicking his wife Gwyneth in the face. The band meanwhile experienced an upturn in popularity that ended with Martin being crowned the 'King of Cool' at the Kerrang 2009 Music Awards.