How about something from Alan Parsons Project? Though not difficult to replicate the sound outside of a studio, there was always this rumor of them being a “studio only” band, with a zero chance of seeing them live. Of course that wasn’t true, but it is still some kind of urban legend that I always associate with them.
Sexual peccadillos [+ religion] have dethroned kings. Can’t threaten a person w/ revealing their bedroom secrets if no one gives af.