The Walrus Was Steve Jobs And Other Fake Deaths

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Given the number of musicians who have really died in plane crashes, it's not too surprising that someone would falsely report that a deadly air disaster had claimed the lives of yet another rock band. That's what happened in 1976, when a German newspaper mistakenly reported that the Swedish disco quartet Abba had been all but eliminated in an airplane crash, with only a supposedly disfigured Anni-Frid Lyngstad surviving.

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