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I guess this is sort of an urban legend...
I've heard in various forms the story that stupid/obsessed teenage girls attempted suicide after their favourite boy/girl bands broke up (although i don't think i've ever heard of a confirmed suicide)...
However the particular story that i've heard as a sort of a conspiracy theory more than once is that the reason the Spice Girls (i think) never officially announced that they were splitting up, even though they blatantly didn't make any more records after that ginger one left to marry Chris Evans (or whatever the story was, not particularly paying attention to such tabloid gossip headlines i'm not certain of the exact details, my knowledge is gathered mostly from Mark Lamarr taking the piss out of them on "Never Mind The Buzzcocks"... ) was because there were suicides after the last really big teenage band (possibly Take That, or the one with Robbie whatshisface in it?) split up, and some shadowy body of forensic psychologists or something had predicted that there would be mass suicides if/when the Spice Girls split up, thus prompting a panic at the label which led to them being banned from saying they were splitting u, but rather just quietly fading away...
there are probably versions where it's some other band than the Spice Girls too... (S Club or whatever band it was that DolphinFriend guy on here a while back thought were haunting him or something?)
Does anyone know if there is any truth in this? And have there been any genuine, documented instances of anyone committing suicide because of a band splitting up?
I've heard in various forms the story that stupid/obsessed teenage girls attempted suicide after their favourite boy/girl bands broke up (although i don't think i've ever heard of a confirmed suicide)...
However the particular story that i've heard as a sort of a conspiracy theory more than once is that the reason the Spice Girls (i think) never officially announced that they were splitting up, even though they blatantly didn't make any more records after that ginger one left to marry Chris Evans (or whatever the story was, not particularly paying attention to such tabloid gossip headlines i'm not certain of the exact details, my knowledge is gathered mostly from Mark Lamarr taking the piss out of them on "Never Mind The Buzzcocks"... ) was because there were suicides after the last really big teenage band (possibly Take That, or the one with Robbie whatshisface in it?) split up, and some shadowy body of forensic psychologists or something had predicted that there would be mass suicides if/when the Spice Girls split up, thus prompting a panic at the label which led to them being banned from saying they were splitting u, but rather just quietly fading away...
there are probably versions where it's some other band than the Spice Girls too... (S Club or whatever band it was that DolphinFriend guy on here a while back thought were haunting him or something?)
Does anyone know if there is any truth in this? And have there been any genuine, documented instances of anyone committing suicide because of a band splitting up?