The Wikipedia entry for a band who may, or may not, exist.

Fringe Izzy are a conceptual performance art duo and band, most notable for the members being unnamed and of indeterminate gender and age. The duo, who are believed to not always be the same two individuals[citation needed], perform wearing elaborate costumes to hide the majority of their bodies apart from their heads, which are covered with long hair that also conceals their faces.

The band has been active since at least the late 1950s, initially as a jazz duo called The Brass Knockers. This was the most conventional stage of their career, though they had already begun covering their faces with Native American tribal masks. No recordings survive from this era of the band’s history, and it is only known about through the testimony of Chuck Berry, who claimed to have seen them perform in 1958.

In around 1961 the band switched to playing Rock ’n’ Roll and debuted their now-familiar hairstyles, initially due to a mistake by their stylist, Doyle Abrahams III. Abrahams was a noted crack addict and was eventually fired by the band in 1977 when he burned down a Las Vegas hotel with a set of hair straighteners. During this period they recorded the single “I Have A Dream”, which was persistently rumoured to have inspired Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic speech, however this is widely disputed as the single was issued in 1962 as a limited edition pressing on a particularly volatile acetate stock and all copies are believed to have spontaneously combusted within three weeks of release.

It was not until the late 1960s that the band gained any significant critical acclaim, and what they did receive was tempered with reservations about their unusual appearance and reluctance to be interviewed. Indeed, they have never been heard to speak and vocals on their songs are always performed by guest vocalists, who over the years have included:

• Ella Fitzgerald
• Matt Bellamy
• Freddie Mercury
• Bono (on a comedy single he was duped into believing was intended seriously)
• Monserrat Caballé
• Hayley Westenra
• Joanna Lumley
• A large Doberman named Diesel
• A regiment of paratroopers
• Big Ben

The musical output of the band remained fairly rock-oriented throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, but at the end of the decade they experimented with pop music, and scored a global number one hit with Dear Sexy Knickers in 1986. One member of the group was due to begin appearing in the Australian soap opera Neighbours around this time, but dropped out to embark upon the global Sexy Knickers And More Tour, leaving their place to be taken by the then-unknown Kylie Minogue.

The group were also supposed to contribute to the Band Aid single Do They Know It’s Christmas, but were indisposed after receiving tickets to a theme park. Bono took their place, and it is believed this is the source of the feud between them. Fringe Izzy have never commented on this speculation, or indeed anything else, ever.

The 1990s did not start well and the group’s Acid House concept opera La Cage Aux Donks was not well reviewed and closed after five performances out of a planned run of 270.

Fringe Izzy staged a major comeback in the mid to late 1990s as part of the Cool Britannia scene, recording a number of hit singles and albums as fake band the Spice Girls. Eventually, consumed by their own success, the band split the front group up with excuses of fictional tensions. They were due to provide the theme song to the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, but the track was pulled at the last minute after ABBA filed a copyright lawsuit alleging that Fringe Izzy had copied the melody from Money Money Money for it. The film was instead released with a theme by Madonna instead.

The lawsuit continued until 2004, when it was sensationally thrown out after Fringe Izzy proved that in fact the disputed melody was first recorded by them in 1969 as an advertising jingle for a brand of hair dye. ABBA were forced to withdraw their suit and pay both damages and costs.

Fringe Izzy are yet to release any further albums, with their management company noting “we don’t know what they’re doing to that cello either”, but have confirmed they have not broken up or retired from the music business.