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The Topless String Quartet
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Jump to navigationJump to search"Professional media hoaxer" Alan Abel created this hoax in 1967.
ESQ: You have said that all of your hoaxes have a message behind them. What was the message behind the Topless String Quartet?
AA: At the time, Yoko and John Lennon were doing their nude-in-bed interviews, and there was a young lady who was playing concerts as a topless cellist. So I thought, why not have a quartet? Frank Sinatra wanted to record them, but I would say they were in Europe or Australia. They were never available.
-from a 2011 Esquire magazine interview with Abel
External Links
- Abel's website on the hoax
- San Francisco Chronicle article on the hoax
- 1992 article on Abel from the American Journalism Review
See also: KKK Symphony Orchestra
