True story/Untrue story

True story. The Mamas and the Papas would have never been the same had a pipe not fallen on Mama Cass's head. Cass was a friend of Denny's and she liked to hang around but Papa John wouldn't have her in the group. It won't work, he said, because her range is an octave and a half too low. I can't write around that. Then one evening Cass was standing around in a club and a workman dropped a pipe on her head. She went to the hospital and when she got out her voice was an octave and a half higher. True story.
What's not a true story is that she died eating a ham/beef/pork/insert meat product here sandwich. She died in her sleep of a heart attack.