Rock And Roll Myths

Published: March 15, 2017, 4 p.m.

b'Myths and legends come in all sizes\\u2026Atlantis\\u2026that\\u2019s a big one that we can\\u2019t seem to wrap our heads around\\u2026but maybe homer was just yanking our chain\\u2026\\n\\n\\u201cfeed a cold, starve a fever\\u201d\\u2026turns out that\\u2019s wrong\\u2026depriving yourself of calories may make it harder for your body to fight off that infection or virus\\u2026\\n\\n\\u201cwe only ever use 10% of our brain\\u201d\\u2026wrong\\u2026neuroscience has proven that to be false\\u2026the right number may be 20%--but there\\u2019s a lot of dispute over that\\u2026\\n\\nHere are some other myths I\\u2019ve run across\\u2026don\\u2019t feed pigeons uncooked rice or they\\u2019ll blow up\\u2026the great wall of china isn\\u2019t the only man-made object that can be seen from space\\u2026and you can\\u2019t certainly see it from the moon\\u2026\\n\\nOh\\u2014and the \\u201cfact\\u201d that men think about sex every seconds\\u2026untrue\\u2026it happens a lot every day, but there\\u2019s no basis in any scientific literature that it happens every seven seconds\\u2026we\\u2019d never get anything done\\u2026\\n\\nThere are also myths and legends in music, too\\u2026Robert Johnson\\u2019 pact with the devil at the crossroads\\u2026Gene Simmons of Kiss did not have a cow tongue grafted onto his\\u2026Jim Morrison, Biggie, Tupac and Elvis are most certainly very dead\\u2026but Paul McCartney is still very much alive\\u2026\\n\\nBut what about the alt-rock word?...what kind of myths and legends lurk there\\u2026stick around\\u2026you may be very, very surprised\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'