Platinum Weird Stevie Hoax

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Dave Stewart of Eurythmics has formed a new band, Platinum Weird, and they're using a fake marketing campaign to promote themselves, including a new video that is airing on VH1-Classics with a date stamp of 1974.

My friend Larry told me about this, after seeing the video on VH1-C. He's nearly as big a Stevie fan as I am, and he was so taken aback at the "Stevieness" of the video and song that he looked them up and found the page below with fake quotes and other Stevie references. I did more searching, and it only got worse...

http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Relea...ird/untold.htm

“She was wispy and elusive,” Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, once said. “I wasn’t quite sure what she was about, but I kind of copied her look.”

Livia posted an article about them in the Rumours forum a while back in which they referenced themselves as "Fleetwood Mac of 2005". I thought it was cute, until I saw the rest of this.

Is it just me, or is this all rather ****ty? Is it too much to ask artists to just make good music and promote it respectably? I wonder what Elton John and Mick Jagger think? Does Stevie's team know about this?

And why has this made me so sensitive?