Monday, 19 May 2008

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.

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

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.

Monday, 7 April 2008

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".

Thursday, 20 March 2008

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.

Sunday, 16 March 2008

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.

Sunday, 2 March 2008

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.