Just as the cheery pop music of the early 1960s gave way to psychedelia and heavy metal as the decade progressed, so did interest in pop stars’ lives move beyond comparisons of their hairstyles and favorite colors to consideration of the more salacious aspects of their lives.
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Favorite tales (then as now) involved drug use and sexual exploits, and, as usual, the most popular stories proved to be mixtures of truth, fiction, exaggeration, and publicity stunts. For example, the Rolling Stones, who probably spawned more legends of the “sex and drugs” variety than any other band of the
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This story is tough to classify as either purely “true” or “false” because so many different versions with varying details exist, but we might safely say it’s one of many legends formed from a kernel of truth covered with several layers of exaggeration and embellishment.
The core incident took place at The Edgewater in Seattle (probably at the time of the group’s
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The basic tale incorporated a number of variations that were added to it across time:
- The incident was variously described as involving some or all of the members of Led Zeppelin.
- The piscatorial object involved was variously reported as a shark, a mud shark, a swordfish, a red snapper, or a generic fish.
- In different versions the fish employed in the escapade was said to be alive, dead, or stuffed and mounted.
- The female groupie was sometimes reported as having been tied (voluntarily or involuntarily) to the bed.
- The extremes of the legend ranged from the band’s using an intact fish to harmlessly pleasure a groupie, to their cutting up a fish and stuffing pieces into several of the woman’s bodily orifices.
So yes, a female groupie was sexually engaged with a fish, but the fish was not a shark (and was presumably dead), it wasn’t “stuffed” inside her, the only member of Led Zeppelin present at the time (John Bonham) was merely an onlooker rather than an active participant, and the woman left the hotel unharmed.
(We note that Richard Cole may not have been the most accurate chronicler of Led Zeppelin’s history, but since his accounts tended to run to excess it’s safe to assume the reality was no wilder than he presented it. In any case, accounts given by others connected with the incident didn’t substantially contradict Cole’s version.)
Nonetheless, tales of sexual exploits involving groupies and animals are familiar entries in the Led Zeppelin canon of rumors:
One evening, two young girls were lounging in the bathtub of Led Zeppelin’s hotel suite. Page walked in. He giggled, “We figured you need something to keep you company.” Then he threw four live octopuses into the tub. The young ladies wound up enjoying the octopuses more than the rockers. “Oh my god,” squealed one of them, “I’ve gotta get one of these. It’s like having an eight-armed vibrator!”
Led Zeppelin later cheered on another adventurous female fan while she made love with her pet Great Dane. The boys in the band even provided strategically placed bacon for the Great Dane’s pleasure.2
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Caught on video: Massive grouper eats shark
Everglades Fishing Company captures video of a shark getting eaten by a large grouper.
There's a reason goliath groupers are called the garbage disposals of the sea — they eat everything in sight, including sharks apparently.
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A group of fishermen were able to witness a 500-pound grouper's 'rare' meal during a fishing trip off the coast of Everglades City, Fla., last week.
Captain Jimmy Wheeler with Everglades Fishing Company watched as someone in his group caught a 3-foot shark. As the fisherman started reeling the creature in, a large shadow appeared. Wheeler instantly knew what was going to happen next.
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'Watch this. You guys are going to freak out,' Wheeler warned.
'He just sucked it in. I don't remember ever seeing anything this crazy.'
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Suddenly, an open-mouthed giant goliath grouper swam up and gulped the 3-foot-long shark down.
'He just sucked it in,' Michelle told Fox News, clarifying that she didn't witness the scene in person. 'I don't remember ever seeing anything this crazy.'
The fishermen wrestled with the large fish for a few minutes until the line finally loosened and the goliath grouper spit out the shark, which the fishermen planned to catch and release.
'That same grouper later swallowed a stingray — or manta ray,' Michelle recalled her husband telling her. '[Goliath groupers] have become a nuisance, according to a lot of fishermen. They're eating everything.'
Goliath groupers have been protected in the state of Florida since 1990 due to declining populations. They must be immediately returned to the ocean (unharmed) if they are accidentally caught on a fishing line.
'Large goliath groupers should be left in the water during release. The skeletal structure of large goliath groupers cannot adequately support their weight out of the water without some type of damage,' the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) instructs on its website.
'If a large goliath is brought onboard a vessel or out of the water, it is likely to sustain some form of internal injury and therefore be considered harvested.'
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Formerly known as a 'jewfish,' goliath groupers can grow up to 8 feet long and weigh about 800 pounds. They are typically identified by their large mouths and dark striped bodies.
'We snorkel and see they'll just go by a fish and suck it in. They're huge. They didn't get that way from not eating,' Michelle joked.