Random Rock Star Rumors That Are Actually Tru (19 items)

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  (#5) Rapper Danny Brown Received Oral Sex While Performing

  Certain musicians are known for pushing the envelope in regards to onstage sexuality; in 1956, The Ed Sullivan Show decided to only film Elvis from the waist up in order to censor his gyrating hips.

  In 2013, rapper Danny Brown received oral sex from a fan in the front row while still performing during the entire act.

   
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  (#8) David Bowie And Mick Jagger Were Found Naked In Bed Together

  David Bowie was one of the most sexually ambiguous musicians, so it's no surprise that there are countless rumors regarding his love life. But one that definitely seems to be true is that he and Mick Jagger were found in bed together.

  David Bowie's first wife Angie claims that she found the two rock icons passed out and unclothed in bed together.

   
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  (#4) Rolling Stones Bassist Bill Wyman Fell For A 13-Year-Old

  As a member of the Rolling Stones for 30 years, it's not surprising that bassist Bill Wyman had more than his share of relationships, but what may be surprising is that one of these relationships was with a 13-year-old. Yes, back at the height of the Rolling Stones' fame, the then-48-year-old rocker was pursuing a relationship with the then-13-year-old Mandy Smith.

  Smith said they first slept together when she was 14, and were married right after her 18th birthday. 
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  (#11) Van Halen Really Didn't Want Any Brown M&Ms In Their Dressing Room

  Some people use this story as an example of all the prima donnas in rock music, and others use it to show that rock stars aren't quite as hardcore as society thinks they are, and still others simply can't believe it's true. But Van Halen really would not allow any brown M&Ms in their dressing rooms before a show. But it's not for any of the reasons listed above: In fact, it was a safety and stage set concern.

  Van Halen had an extensive contract with very specific safety guidelines and important requirements for their progressive light show, so in order to make sure that the venue had read every small detail of the contract, they buried a line in the contract about the candy. If there were brown M&Ms in their dressing room, it proved that the venue had not done their job and that the band needed to carefully inspect its stage and light set-up.
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  (#15) Keith Richards Doesn't Sleep

  While this isn't 100 percent true, there is a sliver of reality in the myth. In Richards's autobiography, Life, he bragged about how he recorded 1978's "Before They Make Me Run" in a five-day-in-a-row no-sleep studio session with multiple engineers tagging in and out. "One [engineer] would flop under the desk and have a kip, and I'd put the other one in and keep going."

  Another time, he stayed up for nine days straight, but that ended in an injury:

  Nine days without a wink, I fell asleep standing up, eventually... I was just putting another cassette back on the shelf, and I was feeling great, and I turned 'round and fell asleep. I fell against the edge of the speaker. Woke up in a pool of blood, wondering, "Is that claret?"
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  (#17) Prince Went Door To Door As A Jehovah's Witness

  It's a well-known fact that Prince was a practicing Jehovah's Witness for decades prior to his passing, but stories of the singer showing up at random homes to preach the good book genuinely sounded made up. Turns out that they weren't.

  In 2008, Prince told The New Yorker, "Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they're really cool about it." While that's kind of interesting, it turns out people weren't always thrilled with his visit. A woman from Minneapolis named Rochelle describes her experience with Prince knocking on her door as legitimately annoying:

  My first thought is "Cool, cool, cool. He wants to use my house for a set. I’m glad! Demolish the whole thing! Start over!" Then they start in on this Jehovah’s Witnesses stuff. I said, "You know what? You’ve walked into a Jewish household, and this is not something I’m interested in." He says, Can I just finish? Then the other guy, Larry Graham, gets out his little Bible and starts reading scriptures about being Jewish and the land of Israel.

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