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Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze is claimed to have the most misheard song lyric in rock music. The song, written at the height of the hippy phenomenon, contains the line "Scuse me while I kiss the sky" - but many think it is actually "Scuse me while I kiss this guy." Second in a survey from a hearing aid company was the refrain from the Beatles' Paperback Writer which has ended up as "Paint the black whiter". But there were some less likely transformations. For example, a line in Madonna's Erotica is supposed to be "Erotic, erotic, put your hands all...

PARIS(AFP) - Mark Raboo speaks of the moment when he wished the floor had opened and swallowed him, and all because of some misheard lyrics. The 24-year-old was jamming with a rock band when a guitarist launched into the opening chords of The Who classic "I Can't Explain," and he joined in on vocals. "The real lyrics were 'A certain kind, can't explain'," says Raboo. "But I misheard them as 'Been circumsized, can't explain.' The laughter ended that cover pretty quickly..." For Lisa -- her last name understandably remains under wraps -- public death by ridicule occurred when she took...