One night, police visited future Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and his mates to ask them to control the noise. Mercury dutifully agreed and generously offered the officers some home-made brownies.

"I would love to have been a fly on the windscreen of their police car," he later remarked, "after about half an hour." Why? The band had filled their home-made brownies with marijuana.

["In October 1978, Queen threw a royal bash at a New Orleans hotel. The band invited 400 people and flew in the press from England, South America, and Japan. Party guests were enthusiastically by naked female mud-wrestling dwarfs, fire-eaters, Zulu dancers, and drag queens. Record executives lined up for admittance to a special back room, where a femal New Orleans native spent the entire evening on her knees, getting down to business."]