JUDAS PRIEST GET SUED
When the tragic suicide of two teenage Judas Priest fans in Sparks, Nevada in 1985 was blamed on subliminal messages on the band’s Stained Class record, the Birmingham metal gods were forced to go to court to defend themselves and the entire genre. The ludicrous accusation was eventually thrown out in a 1990 trial, when it was pointed out that, while you could vaguely discern ‘Let’s be dead’ and ‘Do it’ if you played the record backwards, you could also hear ‘Give me a peppermint’ and ‘Hey ma, my chair’s broken.’