Platinum Weird is a musical collaboration formed in 2004 between Dave Stewart and Kara DioGuardi. It is also the subject of an elaborate hoax placing the band in 1974, including a half hour mockumentary produced for television network VH1 and a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites and related false documents for the 'lost' group.
Ok are we sitting comfortably children? Right then here is the shortened version of the story behind Platinum Weird. Dave Stewart formed a band with a woman called Erin Grace (pre-Annie Lennox/Eurythmics).
On the eve of the album launch party in 1974, Erin who was the lead singer disappeared. ... read more