Fall Out Boy reveal penis scandal helped

Fall Out Boy have revealed that a scandal last year involving a semi-naked Peter Wentz ended up helping their career.

Wentz was reportedly very close to quitting the group after a photograph of him, semi-naked and holding his erect penis was leaked onto the internet.

However, he now considers the incident a positive. Contactmusic quotes him as saying: "It's like a footnote now, like how Michael Jackson set his hair on fire in a Pepsi commercial."

The band's lead singer Patrick Stump went on, saying "It basically forced us to make an album quickly because I wanted to make sure people remembered that we're a band and not a sideshow.

"People always want to see Pete in this I'm-a-crazy-rock-star light and it's a shame because they lose so much about him in the fine print. And more than anything, they lose so much about the music."