Rumours persist in the region that Sadler was visited by royalty for a " laying on of hands ".

Rumours persist that there was once a broader " Bedder Test ", but there is no evidence that colleges ever preferred women of unappealing mien.

Rumours persist of more pirate gold to be found on Norman Island, although to date no applications have ever been made for treasure trove.

Rumours persist that he will link up with lifelong pal Bryan Oviedo at Merseyside giants Everton F. C.

Major soft rock artists of the 1970s included Carole King, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Chicago, America and Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours ( 1977 ) was the best selling album of the decade.

It reached its commercial peak in the mid-to late 70s with acts like Billy Joel, Elton John, Chicago, America and the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours ( 1977 ) was the best-selling album of the decade.

Rumours that Rootes planned to fit Spacevans with leftover Ford V8s from the end of Sunbeam Tiger production have proved to be unfounded, largely because as Billy Rootes put it, ( it was a ) " Bloody stupid idea "

It reached its commercial peak in the mid-to late-70s with acts like Billy Joel and the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours ( 1977 ) was the best-selling album of the decade.

" Rolling Stone rated it as 4 / 5 stars, claiming that " the addition of Rick Vito and Billy Burnette is the best thing to ever happen to Fleetwood Mac " and that " ot since Rumours has Fleetwood Mac recorded pain so unwaveringly and sounded this together.

Production credits are shared by Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, with remixes produced by Bill Kates, Billy Martin, Damien Price, DJ Chernobyl, Jorge Artajo, King Louie & Mighty Jay, Konrad Behr, Mabarak, Madeon, Nick Vernier Band, Pedro Vainer, Posterboys, Rondo Brothers, Rumours of Whores, Ugh / Satanicpornocultshop, Shuji Nabara, Technobears, Tiger et Ghost, Vivada, and Whiton.

Rumours of a battle first appeared in the French press as early as 7 August, although credible reports did not arrive until 26 August, and even these claimed that Nelson was dead and Bonaparte a British prisoner.

Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles ( including Nicks's song " Dreams ", which was the band's first and only US number one ) and remained at No. 1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world.

As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and, with Fleetwood Mac, a further five, of which one was the 1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours, which they won.

Among Nicks's contributions to Rumours was " Dreams ", which became the band's only Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit single to date.

In November 1977, after a New Zealand concert for the Rumours tour, Nicks and Fleetwood, who was married to Jenny Boyd, secretly began an affair.

The same day that Nicks ' new album was released, Fox Network broadcast the Glee episode ( Season 2, Episode 19 ) " Rumours " that featured six songs from Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, including Nicks ' song " Dreams " ( the band's only # 1 song on the US charts ).

( Nicks was quoted by Billboard saying that her new album was " my own little Rumours.

Rumours sprang up that his illness was radiation sickness and that it was caused by radioactive strontium being placed in his soup during his stay in Moscow in an attempt to kill him.

Rumours were rife that he was incapable of fathering a child and that the new Prince of Wales was the result of an adulterous liaison.

Rumours of a possible reunion of the original Genesis line-up began circulating in 2004 after Phil Collins stated in an interview that he was open to the idea of sitting back behind the drums and " let Peter be the singer.

Rumours that the Minister of Justice, Martelli, was connected with the account had been circulating since investigations began into the P2 plot.

Rumours that he was an agent of the Soviet secret service surfaced later, begun by Hungarian party-leader Károly Grósz in 1989 in an attempt to discredit Nagy.

Rumours gradually grew apace that Mandaric and Redknapp had resolved the dispute that caused Redknapp to walk out in the first place, and that he was poised to rejoin his former club.

Rumours circulated that Villeneuve was one of several drivers in whom the Italian team was interested, and in August 1977 he flew to Italy to meet Ferrari, who was immediately reminded of the pre-war European champion Tazio Nuvolari: " When they presented me with this ' piccolo canadese ', this minuscule bundle of nerves, I immediately recognised in him the physique of Nuvolari and said to myself, let's give him a try.

Rumours were spread that the King was going to strip the parish churches too, and even tax cattle and sheep.

In 1979 he composed the score for a ballet, Ursprung which was part of a grouping of three dance works, collectively entitled Underground Rumours, commissioned and performed by The Scottish Ballet.

Rumours arose that he was of princely parentage, possibly of Baden origin, but there were also claims that he was an impostor.

Rumours circulated that the continuing legal struggle between Osbourne and bassist / songwriter Phil Soussan over Soussan's song " Shot in the Dark " was responsible for the album's failure to be re-issued.

Rumours have long circulated that he was killed as a traitor by other Communist Party members, and his body left in British Columbia's Fraser River.

Rumours that Royal Thai Navy sailors were fighting their way through to relieve the airmen kept up Thai hopes through the night.

Rumours have continued to fuel conspiracy theories that the crash was in fact an assassination, but no firm evidence has come to light.

Rumours among his associates ( somewhat confirmed in the GURPS Discworld RPG sourcebook co-written by Pratchett ) imply that the glass eye is in fact a scrying crystal, which might go some way towards explaining his abilities but also means that he implanted notoriously erratic Discworld magic into his own eye-socket.

Rumours have sometimes associated C120 and longer cassettes with double or triple play reel-to-reel tape, but in fact even C60 cassettes use tape thinner than double play and little thicker than triple play.

Rumours in the jianghu say that Huang had intentionally disabled them, but in fact, they were already mute and deaf before they became his servants.

Rumours of a new studio album co-written with Guy Chambers surfaced in early 2007, along with known commitments required by Williams to his EMI contract.

Rumours were confirmed when Britain's CAR Magazine published the spy shots of the car ( then known as P11 ).

Rumours that American nuclear weapons under the NATO nuclear sharing program were stationed at Kleine Brogel have never been officially confirmed, but are now known to be true.

Rumours of his father's cowardice during the First Crusade, however, continued to circulate, and a desire to avoid the same reputation may have influenced some of Stephen's rasher military actions.

Rumours of his father's cowardice during the First Crusade, however, continued to circulate, and a desire to avoid the same reputation may have influenced some of Stephen's rasher military actions.

Rumours that Prince Albert Victor may have committed, or been responsible for, the Jack the Ripper murders were first mentioned in print in 1962.

Rumours suggest that the RX-8 may be replaced by a new smaller, lighter, simpler sports car set to compete with the likes of the Toyota 86.

Rumours that he may have been an informant of journalist Maximilian Harden in the Harden-Eulenburg Affair have never been conclusively established.