Urban Myths

Examining the decades-long friendship between Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret, we find out that Tony Blair submitted Jagger’s name for the Queen’s Honours’ List annually, from 1997 to 2002. However, every year the Queen turned him down. This comic tale travels from London to the Caribbean and dives head-first into the worlds of rock and royalty to ponder exactly why that was.

Paul McCartney dreams a tune, and become obsessed with finding out what it is. The story of how the song "Yesterday" was made.

Before she was famous, Madonna had a short but passionate and influential relationship with Jean Michel Basquiat, a pioneer and darling of the 1980s New York art scene. This myth takes place across one night on the New York subway, just before Madonna infamously door-stepped music producer Seymour Stein at his hospital bedside where he signed her on the spot.

A burglar stumbled into Grace Jones and artist Jean-Paul Goude’s New York apartment, armed with a very small gun. When he inadvertently chose to break into Grace and Jean-Paul’s home, he ended up with more than he bargained, having to deal with these two flamboyant, volatile lovers.

The punk band unleash hell on live TV in 1976

When the rap icons find themselves late for a gig and without transport, a kindly local fan offers them a lift

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L Sayers join the manhunt when fellow crime writer Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears without trace

In the 1960s, the young rock superstars spend an afternoon decorating their manager's Soho office.

Comedy based on the time Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man down from a ninth floor balcony.

Comedy following Cary Grant and Timothy Leary on a psychedelic trip while on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North by Northwest.

With the help of his friend Gustl, a young Adolf Hitler attempts to get in to the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Inspired by true events, this comedy charts the unlikely friendship between Samuel Beckett and a young Andre the Giant.

Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando go on a road trip.