Over 17 stone when she died, it's not a stretch to believe food had something to do with "Mama" Cass Elliott's passing.

The ham sandwich found next to her bed on that fateful night in 1974 fired up a number of half-baked rumours, including suggestions that the 32-year-old belter for the Mamas and the Papas had choked on her last meal.

False - she died of heart failure, an autopsy revealed a clean trachea.