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Quiz about Myths Behind Rock Music Legends
Quiz about Myths Behind Rock Music Legends

Myths Behind Rock Music Legends Quiz


There are many myths surrounding rock singers and their bands. Is there any truth to those myths? First you'll need to identify the artists before that question can be answered.

A multiple-choice quiz by nmerr. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
nmerr
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
351,954
Updated
Jul 19 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
4726
Awards
Top 10% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. Do you remember the rock band The Mamas and the Papas? There were rumors that one of the two female singers of the group choked to death on a ham sandwich. Since it wasn't Michelle Phillips, who was the subject of the rumor? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. There is a myth surrounding the bassist/singer of the rock group Kiss. According to the myth, the reason his tongue is so long is because part of a cow tongue was grafted on top of his own. Really? His nickname is "The Demon." Who is he? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Rock bands are notorious for their contract demands. Some are weirder than others. During the late '70s and early '80s, one rock band demanded that their dressing room be furnished with M&Ms...minus the brown ones. Which band made this odd request? Hint: David Lee Roth was once lead vocalist. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The death of this musician, co-founder of the Rolling Stones, is still shrouded in mystery. To this day there are those who believe he was murdered. His death has been added to the "27 Club," that group of musicians who died at the same age. Who is he? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Never underestimate the ability of rock fans to be persuaded. Take the case of this rocker who at one time was lead guitarist of the band Mothers of Invention. His guitar solo, "Son of Mr. Green Genes", started the myth. Mr. Green Jeans was a character on the long-running children's TV show "Captain Kangaroo." Which rock legend was supposedly his offspring? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Myths abound concerning rock lyrics and hidden messages. The Beatles are no strangers to this. John Lennon wrote a song that many still believe has to do with LSD. What is the name of that song? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. A left-handed guitar genius, another member of the "27 Club," was rumored to have soaked his headbands in LSD before going on stage. Name this rock legend who was very much a part of the "Experience". Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. According to a rumor that circulated during the early years of this metal band, the band's success was due to the fact that some of the band members made a pact with Satan. It begs the question: did the devil make them do it? You might ask Jimmy Page. Which rock band supposedly made a pact with the devil? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Does the name Jamie Starr ring any bells? He was a producer behind a string of hits in the early and mid-1980s. Would it also surprise you to learn that Jamie Starr went on to great fame and success under a different name? He wrote a song about purple rain. Who is this musician? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Is it possible that a serial killer could have gone on to become a rock superstar? Dennis Wilson, a member of The Beach Boys, invited this killer to live with him for a while. He even introduced the future killer to music industry producers. Which serial killer was a wannabe rock star? Hint



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1. Do you remember the rock band The Mamas and the Papas? There were rumors that one of the two female singers of the group choked to death on a ham sandwich. Since it wasn't Michelle Phillips, who was the subject of the rumor?

Answer: Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot, born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was significantly overweight at the time of her death. She did not die by choking on a ham sandwich. That was a rumor that started with her physician. There actually was a pork sandwich in the room but Cass hadn't eaten it. Any drugs that were present in the room (Cass did use drugs) had been cleared away before news of her death reached the media, and the autopsy found that there were no drugs in her system at the time. Cass Elliot died at age 32 due to what the coroner reported was "fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity."
2. There is a myth surrounding the bassist/singer of the rock group Kiss. According to the myth, the reason his tongue is so long is because part of a cow tongue was grafted on top of his own. Really? His nickname is "The Demon." Who is he?

Answer: Gene Simmons

Even without all the makeup, Gene Simmons is quite an imposing presence. The myth, attributed to Simmons himself early in his career, only added to his larger-than-life persona. The cow part is not true, of course. Simmons' tongue, however, really is long.
3. Rock bands are notorious for their contract demands. Some are weirder than others. During the late '70s and early '80s, one rock band demanded that their dressing room be furnished with M&Ms...minus the brown ones. Which band made this odd request? Hint: David Lee Roth was once lead vocalist.

Answer: Van Halen

David Lee Roth, former frontman for Van Halen, insists there's a real explanation behind the "no brown M&Ms" contract rider. He explains it all in his 1997 autobiography "Crazy From the Heat." According to Roth, when the band played at smaller venues, the less-experienced promoters didn't read the contracts carefully enough, which often resulted in their missing important safety and technical information.

The band members decided to test the promoters with the no brown M&Ms rider to be sure the promoters were paying attention. If a brown M&M was found, the band used it as an excuse to act out by trashing dressing rooms. That's a bit extreme if you ask me.
4. The death of this musician, co-founder of the Rolling Stones, is still shrouded in mystery. To this day there are those who believe he was murdered. His death has been added to the "27 Club," that group of musicians who died at the same age. Who is he?

Answer: Brian Jones

Jones was found unconscious at the bottom of his pool. "Death by misadventure" was the coroner's ruling although no traces of drugs and just a small amount of beer had been found in the musician's body. Jones' live-in girlfriend at the time, Anna Wohlin, believes that Frank Thorogood, whom Jones had hired to oversee the home improvements on his house and with whom Jones had been arguing, murdered Brian. Wohlin wrote a book in 2001 about Jones' murder and named Thorogood as his killer.

She also claims that Thorogood signed a deathbed confession in 1993 and gave it to the Stones' chauffeur, who denied it.

The document was never found. However, author Geoffrey Guliano, in his 1994 book "Paint It Black:The Murder of Brian Jones," related Thorogood's words to the chauffeur: "It was me that did Brian. I just finally snapped.

It just happened."
5. Never underestimate the ability of rock fans to be persuaded. Take the case of this rocker who at one time was lead guitarist of the band Mothers of Invention. His guitar solo, "Son of Mr. Green Genes", started the myth. Mr. Green Jeans was a character on the long-running children's TV show "Captain Kangaroo." Which rock legend was supposedly his offspring?

Answer: Frank Zappa

Zappa, who died in 1993, was actually the son of a Sicilian immigrant. The myth took on a life of its own after he recorded "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on the "Hot Rats" album in 1969. Zappa himself dispelled the myth on the very first page of his book "The Real Frank Zappa Book."
6. Myths abound concerning rock lyrics and hidden messages. The Beatles are no strangers to this. John Lennon wrote a song that many still believe has to do with LSD. What is the name of that song?

Answer: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Lennon always claimed that his son, Julian, came up with the name of the song. Ringo Starr even claimed to have been there when Julian showed his father the picture of his schoolmate, Lucy Vodden. Julian explained to the Guardian newspaper in 2009 "I don't know why I called it "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age." In 2007 Lucy Vodden O'Donnell herself told the BBC "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel...Julian had painted a picture, and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school." The coincidence is pretty amazing since the first letters of the song's main words spell out LSD. According to Lennon, the idea that his song and a hallucinogen could be linked never crossed his mind until it was pointed out to him.
7. A left-handed guitar genius, another member of the "27 Club," was rumored to have soaked his headbands in LSD before going on stage. Name this rock legend who was very much a part of the "Experience".

Answer: Jimi Hendrix

Drug abuse has been blamed for the demise of many musicians, past and present. Jimi Hendrix used acid regularly but he did not soak his headbands in it. How that rumor started is anyone's guess but his bassist, Billy Cox, definitely put those rumors to rest.

He once said it was all "bull, just plain stupid." What did kill Hendrix was the powerful sleeping pill, Vesparax, which contains three different drugs. After a night of partying, Jimi came home and took nine of the sleeping pills. Sometime during the night he vomited in his sleep, ultimately suffocating himself.

The world lost a great talent.
8. According to a rumor that circulated during the early years of this metal band, the band's success was due to the fact that some of the band members made a pact with Satan. It begs the question: did the devil make them do it? You might ask Jimmy Page. Which rock band supposedly made a pact with the devil?

Answer: Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin consisted of band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. According to the myth, all band members except Jones signed a blood-ritual pact to trade their souls in exchange for Zeppelin's climbing the stairway to success.

The rumor most likely stemmed from Jimmy Page's interest in the occult, especially the life and doctrines of Aleister Crowley, a British mystic who dabbled in black magic, among other things. Page even owned the Scottish estate where Crowley lived from 1899 to 1913.

When John Bonham died in 1980, Led Zeppelin disbanded.
9. Does the name Jamie Starr ring any bells? He was a producer behind a string of hits in the early and mid-1980s. Would it also surprise you to learn that Jamie Starr went on to great fame and success under a different name? He wrote a song about purple rain. Who is this musician?

Answer: Prince

Some members of Prince's entourage attempted to keep the myth about Jamie Starr alive. When reporters checked with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) they learned that the songs supposedly written by Starr were registered to Prince.

In 1999, years after he retired his Starr persona, Prince attempted to explain himself when he told "Bass Player" magazine that he was "just getting tired of seeing my name. If you give away an idea, you still own that idea. In fact, giving it away strengthens it." This, of course, reveals nothing.

However, one fact is clear: Jamie Starr disappeared and has not been heard from since.
10. Is it possible that a serial killer could have gone on to become a rock superstar? Dennis Wilson, a member of The Beach Boys, invited this killer to live with him for a while. He even introduced the future killer to music industry producers. Which serial killer was a wannabe rock star?

Answer: Charles Manson

Dennis Wilson couldn't have known that Manson and his "family" would be responsible for those terrible murders in August 1969. Manson had pursued a music career after he was released from jail for forgery in 1967 and used Wilson to further his career.

He even recorded an album in 1968 titled "Lie: The Love And Terror Cult" that was released in 1970. It's doubtful that Manson's career would have taken off anyway despite the murders. Brian Wilson and record producer, Terry Melcher, felt uneasy around him and witnessed his outbursts of anger. Manson's dreams of becoming a rock star ended before he ended the lives of nine people.
Source: Author nmerr

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