In 1967, Barry Gibb and his Bee Gees bandmates made an appearance on "The Simon Dee Show" (in England) wearing fur coats and cowboy hats.
They had hoped to start a fashion trend. "Instead," the brothers later recalled, "we were knocked for looking like baboons."
[Perhaps the Gibbs were ahead of their time; thirty-five years later, Kid Rock adopted this outfit as his signature look.]
[Among the questions faced by Cambridge University undergraduates on a three-hour English final exam in July 2001? Discuss: "Tragedy, when you lose control and you got no soul, it's tragedy."]
Sources
M. Moser, Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things
