Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Frank Sinatra had to conduct an odd race against time to record “Strangers in the Night.” The [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Marvin Gaye tried out for the Detroit Lions. By the age of 30 years old (in 1969), [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Kris Kristofferson used a highly dramatic method of getting Johnny Cash to pay attention to his demo [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Both the trees in Joshua Tree AND “One Tree Hill” have since died! Yucca brevifolia is the [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: William Zanzinger murdered Hattie Carroll by beating her to death with a cane. “The Lonesome Death of [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: During the Civil War, the Star-Spangled Banner had an extra verse written by Oliver Wendell Holmes! When [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: The Beatles used flag semaphore to spell out “help” on the cover of their album, Help! Robert [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: The band behind “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” did not really exist. Paul Leka is [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Stravinsky had a particularly cutting telegram retort to a request to have his worked altered by another [...]

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about music and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the music urban legends featured so far. MUSIC URBAN LEGEND: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused a riot upon its first performance. Besides being one of [...]