4. Jack Kerouac
Listen, we’re not trying to say that author Jack Kerouac’s work should be considered as anything but the amazing art it is. We do, however, want to help dispel the myth behind his greatest work, On the Road. There’s long been a story that follows this novel around, a story that Kerouac himself helped perpetuate and one that helped make the novel larger than life. It tells of Kerouac sitting down at his typewriter over the course of three weeks and writing this great tale in a continuous free-slowing state. There’s the scroll (which is true) that Kerouac made by taping pieces of paper together to ensure that he doesn’t waste time by changing paper every few minutes. There’s the alcohol and the stream of consciousness writing style. Well, it turns out that Kerouac had been working on the book for years. He didn’t create it on the spot. He simply typed it out in three weeks.
3. Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli is a name that nearly everyone knows, but the young people out there are unfamiliar with why they know it. This was an R&B duo that won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1990. They were a huge sensation, and everyone was in love with them. Before the Grammy, there were whispers that they were frauds. And now, looking back, it’s hard to see how anyone ever thought they were actually singing. Their live performances were not at all convincing. As they danced and jumped and spun around, there would be times when the microphones were nowhere near their mouths, but the sound was always clear. But it goes much deeper than that. People know they got busted on stage and ran off, but many forget that Milli Vanilli didn’t even sing on the records. These guys were German and spoke poor English, yet somehow their music was perfectly clear and fluent. It was only when the All or Nothing was released in the US and gave no credit to the real vocalists that they were exposed. One of the actual singers, Charles Shaw, came forward and told the truth in December of 1990.
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