Rock’s Best Rumors

You know how rumors start. The topic is always juicy, scandalous yes interesting but often untrue. Let’s dispel a few of the more interesting classic rumors…

Yes, both Duane Allman and bandmate Barry Oakley died from nearly identical motorcycle accidents in Macon ,Georgia a year apart, but neither hit a peach truck as it was rumored. The album ‘Eat a Peach’ had no direct bearing on their deaths.

The Lynyrd Skynyrd lyric, “Southern Man don’t need him around any how,” is a direct slap at Neil Young’s song “Southern Man” from a few years earlier. The Van Zandt’s didn’t like others defaming the southern way of life.

To pick up where we just left off about the Lynyrd Skynyrd/Neil Young friction, you may be surprised to hear that Ronnie Van Zandt (one of the fatalities in the tragic plane crash) was buried in a Neil Young T-Shirt. The irony and dark humor of the family is just incredible.

Gene Simmons of Kiss would often stick out his tongue on stage and in phots, and it was rumored for a long time that he had a cow’s tongue graphed to his own. Thankfully, that rumor was not true.

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