Ironically, the first album, Ducks Deluxe, achieved moderate commercial success after the band broke up, because the members had gone on to greater fame in Graham Parker & the Rumour, The Tyla Gang and The Motors.

The former assumption has persisted to the present day, with writers of fiction, such as Mary Renault, and the film director Oliver Stone among its proponents, as well as modern historians such as Paul Cartledge, who says: " Rumour had it — and rumour was for once surely correct — that he and Alexander had once been more than just good friends.

Rumour linked him with a drive at Lotus, the team run by Colin Chapman, who had been keeping an eye on Pryce's progress throughout 1973 and 1974.

Rumour claims that Hirst had had his own coffin built with windows and shelves, which he kept in his front room and charged people to sit in.

Rumour noted later by the curious antiquary John Aubrey had it that she was the " concubine " of Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset ( died 1624 ), who had children by her and settled upon her an annuity of £ 500 per annum.

Rumour at the time had it that Fiat was angry because the Ronda restyling was in fact too close to their own planned restyling for the Fiat Ritmo, which they had to scrap.

Rumour has there was a white label 12 " record that did contain the original sample, which was spread amongst Dutch DJ's.

** Rumour spread by German press: ABBA members killed in plane crash, only Anni-Frid survived.

The White Rumour Plan was put into action, as part of which wild rumours were spread in Amsterdam, including that the Provos were preparing to dump LSD in the city water supply.

They were somewhat aware of the situation with regards to the rumours, but did not take them entirely seriously — possibly because the UK's New Musical Express famously published an article on the Beatles-as-Klaatu theory under the title " Deaf Idiot Journalist Starts Beatle Rumour ".

Bananarama went on to make Stock Aitken and Waterman their main producers, and would collaborate with them on some of their biggest hits, including " Love in the First Degree ", " I Can't Help It ", and " I Heard A Rumour ".

Rumour has it that their parents left them in the asylum many years ago, and in revenge, Rodge took an axe to them both.

" I Heard a Rumour " was their strongest performing international hit from this album.

Parker and the Rumour built a reputation as incendiary live performers: the promotional album Live at Marble Arch was recorded at this time and shows off their raw onstage style.

Graham Parker and the Rumour appeared on BBC television's Top of the Pops in 1977, performing their version of The Trammps ' " Hold Back the Night " from The Pink Parker EP, a Top 30 UK hit in March 1977.

They made their first tour there in 1978, where they spotted rising Australian band The Sports, who subsequently supported Parker and the Rumour on their early 1979 UK tour.

Rumour has it that this album was recorded in a week, during a period where Kool Keith & Godfather Don locked themselves away from the outside world ( in a basement ), only adding additional vocals after they emerged from their retreat.

1999 saw the release of their debut album Rumour, recorded largely in an atmospheric trip hop style.

Rumour has it that many drew their blinds in passing through New England.

After toying with different band members, The Cruel Sea came into fruition in 1988 with the union of Ken Gormley on bass, Jim Elliot on drums, Danny Rumour on guitars and James Cruikshank on keyboards and guitars, taking their name from the 1960s surf instrumental group, The Ventures.

After a nearly three-year hiatus following the birth of Chloe, Newton-John resumed her recording career with the 1988 album, The Rumour.

Bob Dylan headlined, with support from Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Lake, and Merger.

In 1975, he recorded a few demo tracks in London with Dave Robinson, who would shortly found Stiff Records and who connected Parker with his first backing band of note, The Rumour.

In the summer of 1975, Parker joined forces with ex-members of three British pub-rock bands to form Graham Parker and the Rumour.

The Up Escalator would prove to be Parker's last album with the Rumour, although guitarist Brinsley Schwarz would reunite with Parker in 1983 and play on most of the singer's albums through the decade's end.

However, he continued to play live fairly regularly, often working with backing band The Figgs ( who, like The Rumour, when not backing Parker also issued records as a discrete unit ).

Parker began a more active period in 2001, with the UK re-release of his early Rumour work, and with his third studio album for Razor & Tie, Deepcut to Nowhere.

In the spring of 2011 Parker reunited with all five original members of The Rumour to record a new album.

Though it did not sell well, Dekker was still a popular live performer and toured with the Rumour.

Sekret Sekret would often play at Sydney pub, The Grand, with Rumour assembling an ad hoc line-up of musicians using instruments housed at the venue.

Guitarist and main composer, Rumour began touring and recording with his own roots style instrumental band the Dan Rumour Band and Elliot joined on drums by mid-2006.

His skill with different accents is also evident on " The Rumour ", where the rumour moves across Scotland and into Ireland, with Stewart speaking in a different accent for each place.

It was co-produced by Graham Parker and The Rumour keyboardist Bob Andrews and included a dancehall version of Neil Young's " Powderfinger " and Country Dick singing of " Beat Generation " with backing vocals from Dave Alvin, Nick Lowe, Gene Taylor, Dan Stuart, and Loudon Wainwright III.

Rumour has it that hotel owner Peter Wall threatened to call off the construction if the city forced him to replace all of the dark-paned glass, so a settlement was reached where only the remaining portion of the building ( 1 / 3 of its height ) was faced with the typical " Yaletown green " lighter-coloured glass now common in the city's newer areas.

Rumour has long circulated that he named his company after the French epic poem La Chanson de Roland.

* The Future of Reputation, Gossip, Rumour and Privacy on the Internet, Daniel J. Solove, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-12498-9, p. 166

Schwarz and Andrews joined Graham Parker & the Rumour ; later Andrews moved to New Orleans.

The band recruited two teenagers, Danny Rumour on lead guitar and David Virgin on bass guitar ( both ex-Ugly Mirrors, and went on to form Sekret Sekret ), on early recordings by SPK in 1979.

In 2008 – 2009, James Shortt, Director General of the International Bodyguard Association, claiming SAS and Parachute Regiment service, was outed as a " Walt " by the British Army Rumour Service ( ARRSE ) website and subsequently reported on by Private Eye and The Sun.

* Tube Professionals ' Rumour Network-Track Diagram showing layout of station and St. Mary's curve

Rumour has it that one of the entrances to these tunnels can be found in the basement of a house along Old Market Street.

Kusturica's autobiography, Smrt je neprovjerena glasina ( Death is an Unverified Rumour ), was published in October 2010 in Belgrade by Novosti AD.

Several pub rock musicians joined the new wave acts such as Graham Parker's backing band, The Rumour, Elvis Costello & the Attractions and even The Clash.

Graham Parker ( born 15 November 1950, London, England ) is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.

Parker and the Rumour gained a following in Australia thanks to the support of Sydney independent rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ) and the ABC's weekly pop TV show Countdown, which gave the group nationwide exposure in Australia.