Top 10 Wildest Rock Music Myths

I feel he's not dead, because:
1. His "replacement" William Campbell, is dead. He died in 2011, and Paul is still using his social media, meeting fans, and performing
2. Wouldn't the amount of secrets the band would have to keep be a little much? I mean, not just them, but friends and family. Like, how do you not notice someone close to you was dead, and never returned?
3. If William Campbell died in 2011, and Paul was really dead, Ringo would have to be the one looking for another Paul. Plus, people KNOW when stuff seems out of whack.
4. This one is short and to the point: HOW do you find someone that looks like Paul, talks like him, sings like him, and has the same musical talent?
5. I kinda feel Paul is just embracing this theory. His album 'Paul is Live' basically parodies the Abbey Road cover, and the songs have "messages" backwards. I also feel he was just having fun experimenting with sound and lyrics.
Ok, I'll be quiet now

If the Beatles are the undisputed titans of pop music, then this is the Titanic of rock myths. In 1969, Beatlemaniacs -- and who in the world wasn't one, by then? -- were buzzing with the bizarre rumor that Paul McCartney had been dead since 1966, the victim of a car crash in his Aston-Martin on a rainy night following a recording session at Abbey Road. The surviving band members, distraught, were said to have scrambled to find an impersonator. Then they began the slow process of dropping hints about the incident: "Here's another clue for you all, " John Lennon sang on "Glass Onion. " "The walrus was Paul. " The walrus was said to be an ancient symbol of death in several cultures (Roman, Arctic). During the eerie outro of "Strawberry Fields, " a muffled voice can be heard apparently saying "I buried Paul. " And on the cover of Abbey Road, Paul is barefoot (the corpse), John is in white (the angel), Ringo in black (the clergyman) and George in denim (the gravedigger). The dead man has ...more

The reason I know of this myth is because I saw the Revolution 9 backwards. I think it says Paul is dead a few times. Which kinda freaks me out. I'm no fan, but I know a kid in my class who's obsessed. And if he heard this, he'd die scared.

There were also audio specialists that reviewed the audio imprint of Paul's voice in the pre 'death' era and 'post' death era, and they claimed that the two voice imprints could not come from the same person.

Some myths are so perfectly suited to the legend they're too good to be true. Others just turn out to be true. Although many fans dismiss the story as myth, Ozzy Osbourne -- reality TV's rock & roll Prince of Darkness -- actually did bite the head off a bat. After the 1981 release of his second solo album, Diary of a Madman, the former Black Sabbath vocalist hit the road for a tour nicknamed "Night of the Living Dead. " Onstage, Ozzy pelted his audience nightly with 25 lbs. of pig intestines and calves' livers. Fans began bringing meat, and then dead animals, to throw back. One night in Des Moines, someone threw a live bat onstage. Stunned by the lights, the bat lay motionless. Osbourne, thinking it was a rubber toy, bit into its neck. He was rushed to the hospital and tested for rabies. Rumors that Osbourne once bit the head off a dove during a meeting with CBS Records have also been confirmed. But even this madman can't live up to the reputation every time: One rumor has it that ...more

Not only did he bite a bat's head off, he also snorted a line of ants. 'enough said

Besides their continuing popularity, the most improbable aspect of the long-running theatrical rock group Kiss has to be the freakishly long tongue of singer-bassist Gene Simmons. For years comic-book nerds convinced each other that Simmons had in fact had a cow tongue surgically grafted to his own. Sadly, it's just a fluke of Mother Nature. "I was oblivious, for the first thirteen years of my life, that I was endowed with a large oral appendage, my superlong tongue, " Simmons wrote in his autobiography. "It really was longer than everyone else's, and I was soon to find out that having a long tongue came in handy with the girls. " He's so enamored of the rumor that, when he recently launched his own men's magazine, the name was obvious: Tongue.

Laugh out loud some people and their crazy theories! This has got to be the craziest!
Hah. He just naturally has a long tongue! 7 inches to be exact ;)
Its also one of the most recognizable images when the band KISS comes to mind!

Cow Tongue? What? he had a piece of skin removed so he could stick it out farther and he already had a long tongue before, and he had a skin removed so he could make it MORE longer

If you don't know the rumor... don't ask!

Some fans still believe that Manson, born Brian Warner, was the bespectacled child actor (Josh Saviano) who played Paul Pfeiffer, best friend of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), on the hit television show The Wonder Years, which was broadcast from 1988 to 1993. At the height of his notoriety in the mid-Nineties, Manson also got plenty of mileage out of the rumor that he had a rib removed so he could perform oral sex on himself. The list of tall tales associated with the singer is as long as his reach: He supposedly had breast implants; he replaced one eye with a testicle; he played Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Manson, a master of deception and reinvention, welcomes the rumors: They make him a continuing topic of discussion. "It's kind of irrelevant sometimes whether they are true or not, " he once said. The Paul Pfeiffer one's not true... and Alice Cooper didn't play Eddie Haskell either

Why isn't this higher? This is highly disputed.

Rock & roll was undoubtedly waiting for a savior when the White Stripes, the eccentric garage duo from Detroit, hit the big time a couple of years ago. In the increasingly processed world of pop, Jack and Meg White's inspired primitivism was the key to their success. It didn't hurt, however, that the band came equipped with a provocative rumor attached. Sharing jet-black hair and pasty complexions, the Whites passed themselves off as a brother-and-sister team, the two youngest siblings in a family of ten. In March 2001 a writer for the Detroit Free Press exposed the pair as a once-married couple. County records show that John (Jack) Gillis and Megan White were married in 1996, and divorced in 2000. As with most phenomena, the facts about the White Stripes remain subject to distortion. Yes, they did turn down an offer to license a song for an ad for the Gap; no, it wasn't for $1 million

When "Mama" Cass Elliott died in 1974 at the age of thirty-two, initial reports suggested she choked while eating a sandwich in bed. The sweet-voiced belter for the Mamas and the Papas had been enjoying a successful solo career at the time, with hits such as "It's Getting Better" and the vaudevillian throwback "Dream a Little Dream of Me. " At almost 240 pounds, she had always struggled with her weight; fans could easily believe her death was associated with eating. Reports were soon embellished with details. Like Jimi Hendrix, Cass had supposedly asphyxiated on her own vomit. And the sandwich, like the singer's showier instincts, was ham. Some believed she died from a heroin overdose; others said she had been carrying John Lennon's baby at the time. In the end, the truth was less lurid. Mama Cass died of massive heart failure, probably as a result of her weight problem and the occasional crash diets she tried. Though a sandwich may well have been found at her bedside, an autopsy ...more

While on tour with motley crue in the 80s. high on cocaine and other drugs both ozzy and nikki six snorted a line of ants. later ozzy licked nikki's piss before nikki could and pulled tommy lee in a hotel room where ozzy then defecated on the floor and started making smearing it on the wall. Osbourne has no recollection of these events.

Wizard of Oz, Alice in wonderland etc... are often related to psychedelic music or floating prog music. Maybe certain substances have linked the Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of OZ. Who knows? It could be very true.

This theory states that Kurt Cobain faked his death and became the Weezer frontman. Some points shown are similar facial features, the formula book of Cobain's lyrics Rivers has, the side project Goat Projector, and the Foozer tour.

Even scholars of Shakespeare and Joyce don't read their heroes' writing this closely. When the diminutive Genesis frontman hit the Top Twenty with "In the Air Tonight" in 1981, fans interpreted its lyrics (apparently a commentary on Collins' failed marriage) literally. "Well, if you told me you were drowning/I would not lend a hand": Collins is said to have witnessed the drowning of a real-life friend from afar. A stranger who was closer to the drowning man offered no help. Like a game of Telephone, the folklore took on further embellishments: Collins supposedly tracked the man down and gave him a free concert ticket, then debuted the song with a spotlight trained on the offender. By some accounts the negligent man later committed suicide, or was arrested as a result of Collins' diligence. In a postscript, Eminem's psychopathic fan "Stan" compares his rapper-hero, who he believes has abandoned him, with the man on the beach: "That's kinda how this is, you could have rescued me from ...more

Jello Biafra spread this rumour and people still believe it. It was meant to expose the remaining Dead Kennedys members as sellouts, or, as he says, "The World's Greediest Cover Band".