Chart-topping Disco Don Calvin Harris has admitted that he lied about losing the computer hard drive with all his second album on it at Heathrow airport.
The Scottish dance hero used the furore surrounding the lost luggage mountain at Terminal 5 last summer to stop people asking him when his new tunes where coming out.
The I'm Not Alone star said he was almost upset people believed he was so stupid to check his hard work into the hold, but it did buy him some time.
Calvin told Popjustice that he used it as a delaying tactic to cover up the fact that he didn't want to rush his follow up to I Created Disco.
Although he was quick to point out that although the little white lie was concocted with his sound engineer, it was inspired by the bumbling airport workers really losing their gear.
He said: "Well the first tactic of delaying the album was pretending that I lost it at Heathrow.
"That one worked pretty well. The second was the Dizzee Rascal tune, which reminded people that I existed.
"It was concocted between me and my sound engineer, Jimmy.
"I should make it clear that they did in fact lose our bags - that is fact - but it was not true that the album was in them.
"I would never check a hard drive in luggage. Who's that stupid? It's almost upsetting that people believed it.
"So the thing about Heathrow wasn't so much a lie, as, an untruth."
Calvin Harris will be performing at Creamfields over the August Bank Holiday alongside Dizzee Rascal. For tickets and info visit www.creamfields.com.
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