I just remembered that when I was about 12, I found a bad translation of a Japanese GD article that said something like "Billie Joe like white women post to America". Some of the other fans I knew didn't get that it had gone through a translator, and got upset because they thought Billie had a mail order bride.
I'm finally watching the RRHoF induction (thanks, HBO freeview! And thanks for actually showing it this weekend so I can DVR it beyond this weekend) and I'm just getting so fucking emotional, it's pathetic