POP CULTURE
Stars who’ve taken it all off — for better or
worse nude video
By ROSS RAIHALA found at Knight
Ridder Newspapers
W hen John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album “Unfinished Music, Vol. 1: Two
Virgins” hit stores in 1968, it whipped up a furor — not for the musical
content but for its cover, a stark portrait of the pair standing naked as
the day they were born.
In the years since, nudity in the music world has become so common it’s
nearly mundane.
Here’s a look at how nude photos and videos of other musicians affected
their careers:
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MADONNA
Exposure: In July 1985, just as Madonna was riding high with her second
album, “Like a Virgin,” Playboy and Penthouse published
nude photos of the Material Girl that dated to her pre-fame days in New
York. Soon after, she played Live Aid and announced from the stage, “I ain’t
taking (blank) off today. You might hold it against me 10 years from now.”
Aftermath: A mere seven years later, she took everything off for her book
Sex, an explicit coffee-table tome that showed Madonna indulging in
lesbianism, sadomasochism and whatever it is you call it when you make out
with Vanilla Ice. These days the 47-year-old mother of two has been
promoting her latest album, “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” by appearing
in a skimpy lavender leotard.
TOMMY LEE
Exposure: Motley Crue was mired in a post-grunge slump in 1996 when the
most infamous sex tape of all time hit the Internet (and, later, adult video
stores). It, of course, showed drummer Tommy Lee cavorting with Pamela
Anderson in various states of undress while singing along to the MC Hammer
song, “It’s All Good.”
Aftermath: More people are now familiar with the size of Lee’s genitals
than any of the music found in his post-Motley Crue solo catalog. see also Pam
Anderson video
FRED DURST
Exposure: A three-minute video hit the Web last year starring Limp Bizkit’s
much-hated leader spreading his germs all over a bored-looking young woman.
Durst’s legal team managed to get it pulled from most of the sites that
hosted it, although it’s still out there if you look. (But trust us, you
don’t want to see it.). Tagged by a hacker !
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Fred Durst SEX Video
Aftermath: It became abundantly clear that Durst is no Tommy Lee.
KID ROCK tour bus
Exposure: In February the company that released the 2004 Paris Hilton sex
tape “One Night in Paris” announced it would issue a new video featuring
Kid Rock and Creed’s Scott Stapp.
It didn’t show Rock and Stapp together — instead, it featured the
pair (separately) messing around with some pneumatic Miami groupies on a
tour bus in 1999.
Aftermath: A federal judge in Detroit signed an order that prohibits the
release of the video. Kid Rock now calls Stapp an “idiot” in interviews.
FALL OUT BOY
Exposure: Pete Wentz, bass player and lyricist for Fall Out Boy, snapped
a few pics of his not-so-little boy falling out of his underpants.
Supposedly meant solely for the eyes of a woman he was romantically
pursuing, the digital shots landed on the Internet last month.
Aftermath: Wentz posted a message on the band’s Web site that placed
the blame on a hacker: “(But) after feeling badly about this for 24 hours,
I am now ready to get back to laughing ... The moral of the story: If you
really don’t want (nude) pictures of yourself to end up on the Internet,
don’t take the pictures.”
EXPOSES
Plenty of other musicians have shown off the total package. Here’s the
naked truth:
■ Samantha Fox: This early MTV favorite got her nudity out
of the way before she started singing. Before her brief run of totally ’80s
hits like “Touch Me (I Want Your Body)” and “I Wanna Have Some Fun,”
S-s-s-s-samantha Fox was a topless model for the British tabloids.
■ Peter Steele: Given that he already has a porn-star name,
it was only natural that the Type O Negative vocalist shed his leather for a
1995 Playgirl centerfold. In 2002 the magazine named him the 88th
sexiest man ever.
■ R. Kelly: Nothing, it seems, can stop the Chicago R&B
crooner, including the 2002 release of a videotape that allegedly shows him
in the buff — and having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
■ Vanessa Williams: She was forced to resign her post as
Miss America in 1984 after Penthouse published nude photos, but
Williams used the publicity to launch a career as a pop star and actress.
She’s also arguably the most famous woman to emerge from the annual beauty
pageant.
■ Warren Cuccurullo: In 2000 the former Missing
Persons/Duran Duran guitarist took it all off for a photo spread in a
Brazilian gay magazine. He later launched his own line of sex toys.
■ Evan Seinfeld: While the metal band Biohazard was never
quite as popular as it should have been, the group’s vocalist/bassist
earned a new set of fans when he appeared on the HBO prison drama “Oz,”
a show notorious for its rampant male nudity. (Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian
was on the show, too.)
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