Yes - it is true. There are musical conspiracies and hoaxes in the 20th century. We abound in conspiracies and hoaxes, so why wouldn't there be musical ones.
We all are familiar with the most famous hoax of them all - Paul is Dead. What are the others? The other really big one is Elvis Lives!
I hadn't realized there was a conspiracy that the Beatles, the Stones and Bob Dylan formed a secret supergroup
"In October 1969, rock critic Greil Marcus wrote (under a false name) an album review for the magazine Rolling Stone. Credited to “The Masked Marauders”, this record was apparently a studio jam featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger and released anonymously because the artists were all under contract to different labels. It was all hogwash, of course and a spoof of the bloated “supergroups” of the time. This didn’t stop the editors of the mag from hiring musicians to actually record the songs and release them as an album."
There are other "conspiracies" but they seem lame - clones, who wrote what song, who did or didn't play on their albums and so on.
Before our time of popular culture with radio and newsprint abounding, musical conspiracies were uncommon. I went to Wikipedia - a great source - and found a lack of conspiracy theories relating to music. I guess there are so many others, that the musical ones are less significant.
In fact, there are so many conspiracies, that Wikipedia lists them by subject area - e.g medicine, science and technology, sports. There is no entry for music. There is an entry for fandom, celebrity relationships and shipping (that's where fans believe fictional characters or real-life celebrities are in a relationship).
Paul is dead seemed silly at the time to me, along with Elvis Lives. There is such strange stuff out there as part of the every-day. I wonder how many people could possibly believe these two hoaxes. A 2014 article from NPR says that 50 percent of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory.
I stay with my own theory - that musical conspiracies are the stuff of fluff!
This house is unusual in its architecture. I will be missing the Buffalo Garden Walk next weekend, like many people on this side of the border. Here's the famous Harry Potter house/garden. It is one of the favourite gardens.
