BOO!! Rock stars and their hauntings.

Most Peculiar, Mama.

In 1995, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr went into the studio to add their voices to an old John Lennon demo of Free As A Bird. Afterwards, the three surviving Beatles posed for a photo outside the studio. In the instant before the photographer snapped the shutter, a white peacock wandered into the shot.

"That’s John," McCartney said. "Spooky, eh? It was like John was hanging around. We felt that all through the recording."

McCartney also told Observer Music Monthly that the group put a backwards recording at the end of the single as a joke, "to give all those Beatles nuts something to do." Listening to the finished recording in the studio one night, McCartney claims that in the middle of the otherwise indecipherable garble, the words "jooohn lennnnon" could clearly be heard.

Elvis Is Still In The Building

A rambling old building just off of Nashville’s Music Row housed the corporate headquarters and recording studios of RCA in the 1950s. It was in a small studio on the first floor of that building that Elvis Presley recorded his breakthrough 1956 single, Heartbreak Hotel.

After RCA moved to other quarters, the building became a TV production facility, housing studios which were used primarily to produce music-related programs. An audio booth and studio lighting panel occupied the space in which Elvis recorded.

Studio crew members swore that every time Elvis’ name was mentioned during a show production, something strange would happen: a light would blow out, a ladder would fall, some unexplained noise would suddenly be heard through the sound system.

The Vicar writes: There are actually many more of these and we're considering a feature. But what we'd like to know is 'Have you seen a rock ghost?'.

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