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Beatle's Home Infested With Beetles

The answer to one of rock's great naming questions may well have been definitively answered this past week when a researcher poking around in the garden of John Lennon's boyhood home found four rare species of -- you guessed it -- beetles. Britain's National Trust, which now owns the Liverpool property, announced that a survey revealed the ...

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Dylan's Outhouse Stinks Up Neighborhood

There's a lot more than just answers blowin' in the wind around Bob Dylan's home in Malibu, Calif. -- much to the dismay of his neighbors. Folks who live near the folk-rock bard's homestead are none too pleased with the aromas emanating from a portable toilet set up in his backyard, which are so strong that a neighboring family claims to have been ...

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Duffy Gets Her Own Flower

We'd imagine that most artists would object to the idea of being tossed in a hole and covered with dirt -- but Duffy has taken to the notion quite well. In fact, the Welsh singer has fully endorsed a horticulturalist who's developed a new strain of flowering bulb that bears her name. The Duffy-dil, as it's known, will be have its first public ...

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Mariah Carey Not Good for Science

We thought that everyone knew the act of singing a pop song wasn't rocket science, but a group of British eggheads apparently didn't get that memo -- and have gone all apoplectic over the album Mariah Carey released recently. The members of Sense About Science have belatedly begun complaining about the title of 'E = MC2,' not so much because Albert ...

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Van Halen's Legendary 'M&M's' Rider Revealed

While some longstanding mysteries -- what's really inside Area 51, for instance -- may never be solved, the legend of Van Halen's "no brown M&M's" concert rider has finally been explained, thanks to the estate of a concert promoter, which dusted off a copy for the folks at the Smoking Gun. The 10-page document does indeed make the colorful ...

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Rocker Marketing Line of Sex Toys

Dave Stewart showed the world that he knew a thing or two about beats per minute during his stint in Eurythmics, but he's taking that concept to a decidedly new level in his latest venture --marketing a high-end line of vibrators. The grizzled rocker has joined forces with sex toy manufacturer JimmyJane to market a pair of the gadgets, which will ...

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Singer Seeks Statue of Himself

George Michael has repeatedly told fans he's ashamed of himself for being arrested over incidents involving public lewdness, driving under the influence and being unnecessarily mean to pigeons -- oh, it's only a matter of time for the last one transpires -- but his self-esteem doesn't seem to have suffered all that much. The singer is reportedly ...

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