9 Greatest Hoaxes In Music

7. McCartney, Lennon, Dylan And Jagger Collaborated On A Super-Record

In October 1969, Rolling Stone magazine printed a joke review of an album titled The Masked Marauders. The album was supposedly a collaboration between a huge number of legendary musicians, including Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan.

Things were perpetuated even further when Rolling Stone commented saying that the reason there were no artists listed on the album cover was because of messy contractual agreements between the various artist's record companies. Sounds pretty convincing, right? The point of the joke review was to make fun of the current "super-group" trend, but Rolling Stone were so overwhelmed by calls and letters begging for access to the material that they decided to take the joke further. Rolling Stone actually contacted Warner Bros Records and secured a deal for the album, subsequently hiring an unknown band of musicians to impersonate the artists who were supposedly featured (and write totally bizarre, in-your-face songs, like I Am The Japanese Sandman and I Can't Get No Nookie). The hoax was so convincing that the album sold over one-hundred thousand copies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXvQ6cg9Vs