16. Sid Vicious charged with murder
Sid killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungeon. Go rent "Sid & Nancy".
24. Judas Priest on trial
This was that whole "backward-masking", subliminal messages, dumbass teenage fan killing himself business.
25. Rick James busted
What Theo said. Rick and his girlfriend assaulted and tortured another woman and kept her captive in his home.
51. Payola scandal
what, you mean the one that's still going on?
Pretty much. This was a scandal back in the '50s. But yeah, the practices involved are really still going on.
52. Iggy Pop cuts himself on stage
but not genisis p-orridge and coum transmissions eating
just about any bodily fluid there is (plus cutting
themselves, etc. really gross stuff)
You need to keep in mind with lists like these that the dinks writing them up are Top 40 hounds who've never heard of Lydia Lunch; let alone The Genitorturers, G.G. Allen or The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black.
53. Chuck Berry's shocking home videos of what?
What Theo said, but he was taping the women with a hidden camera in his *own* bathroom.
68. Bobby Darin's family secret
?
According to the imdb, Darin found out at the age of 32 that the woman he thought was his sister was in fact his mother.
75. Carnie Wilson's surgery webcast
She underwent liposuction. And you could watch the whole thing online.
81. The Who explode on TV
For their first US TV appearance, Moon convinced the producers to put some explosives in his drum kit. The resulting louder-than-planned explosion *may* have contibuted to Townsend's hearing problem.
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