Taking the rap for crazy hoax

The music industry is often more obsessed with stars having a sellable persona than trusting fans to know the difference between their real character and the music they create.

Rock’n’roll rebel (Sir) Mick Jagger admires Maggie Thatcher and is from a Tory-leaning family. Clean-cut boy band members do — shock, horror — occasionally take advantage of groupies. The now obligatory X Factor sob stories may, just possibly, be encouraged by the show to create a false emotional connection with would-be fans.

And out-of-control Californian rappers Silibil’n’Brains, a duo Sony Records tipped to take over the world in the mid-2000s before they came crashing down to earth in spectacular circumstances?