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Just like urban legends, there are stories about some of rock's biggest stars that started as rumors, often baseless, but fans think they're true...then there are outrageous stories about some of rock's biggest stars that are absolutely true...so which is which? How bout the story that Keith Richards was trying o get off heroin, so he went to Switzerland and had all his blood replaced. Keith says he made that one up, because he was tired of answering questions about his drug use....There's also a story about Keith snorting his dad's ashes, which he says indeed did happen....How bout the story that Stevie Nicks was such a cocaine addict that she would use it anally to get a bigger high....Stevie says as much coke as she used, none of it was ingested like that. And of course, the infamous legend about Rod Stewart having to get his stomach pumped after injesting a huge amount of semen after an encounter with multiple men...Rod says he's done a lot of crazy things, but not that one. He says it was a story made up by a disgruntled employee. More on all those stories, plus legends, true or false, about Gene Simmons, Ozzy, Led Zeppelin and more, here.