The Masked Marauders

Last Friday night I watched NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams, and they had an interesting segment on a mystery album in 1969 titled "The Masked Marauders" that was thought to have been recorded by a supergroup of well-known artists of the time. The voices that could be heard on the album were those of the Beatles, most notably Paul McCartney and John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan. As it turned out, the recording was made by impersonators. It was later discovered that the album was just part of an elaborate hoax concocted by Rolling Stone magazine. So those people who bought the album back in 1969 had the wool pulled over their eyes. Of course I wasn't even born yet (not until 1973), so obviously I wouldn't remember it. But I just wonder how that made people feel when they discovered that an album they thought was a once in a lifetime recording of legendary artists, turned out to be a phony?