The main character of Guy Ritchie's crime comedy “Rock and Roll” in one of the scenes said: “Everyone loves a beautiful life. But the real Rock'n' Roller is not like that, because he needs everything at once. ”
The stereotype of the scandalous and swagger of rock musicians was not formed from scratch: there are dozens of real evidence for this.
In this collection, we recall the 10 wildest antics of famous artists.
10. Ozzy Osbourne
“Great and terrible” Ozzy was able to shock the audience during his performances at Black Sabbath, creating a real show.
His most famous “prank” is the case when he bit off a bat’s head at one of the band’s concerts in 1982.
One of the spectators threw the mouse on the stage (and where did he get it?), And Osborne took it for a toy and bit it with such force that his head remained in his mouth. The musician was slightly injured and had to be vaccinated against rabies, which caused the concert to be interrupted.
A flurry of indignation from zoodefenders immediately fell upon him, although the singer himself always claimed that he had no idea that the mouse was real and alive.
9. Jim Morrison
Vocalist The Doors was at the center of the scandal even earlier - in the 60s.
During one of the concerts, Morrison got so excited that he decided to express to the assembled audience everything that he thought of her.
Walking through the audience and their relatives, Jim also touched on religion, offending the feelings of believers.
The people did not appreciate such a monologue and began to be indignant, in response to which the singer showed everyone present his genitals, clearly demonstrating where they could go.
In addition to public discontent, The Doors received a couple of accusations for this trick of Morrison: obscene behavior, drunkenness in a public place and blasphemy (this was what was now called “insulting the feelings of believers”).
8. Iggy Pop
The grandfather of punk rock music understood before all that the public needed not only songs, but also shows. Given what kind of audience was going to listen to punk rock, the show should have been appropriate.
While still a vocalist for The Stooges, Iggy often stripped to the waist and cut himself with a razor blade during performances, leading the audience into ecstasy from the sight of blood.
Either from cuts, or from substances taken, at the end of the performance, Pop could empty his stomach right on the people who were closest to the stage.
By the way, it was he who first jumped from the stage into the crowd, thereby inventing the element that is now used by everyone in a row.
7. Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney in his youth did not lag behind colleagues in the genre in terms of the use of light (and maybe not very) drugs. Two things distinguish him from others: firstly, he got caught, and secondly, he got caught in a large party.
In 1980, McCartney and his wife went through customs at the Japanese Okura Airport, whose employees found almost a quarter ton of marijuana in their suitcases.
For a couple of 219 kg of “grass”, the couple was facing a decent term, but Paul took all the blame on himself, thereby securing his wife, and was soon released.
What can I say, even in Japan they loved The Beatles and were ready to forgive much to one of the founders of the group.
6. Rammstein
Concerts of this group are always accompanied by a grandiose show using pyrotechnics and a complex props, which sometimes include .. dildos.
During the performance of the song “Bück dich”, the frontman of the band Till Lindemann imitates sex with Christian Lorenz (keyboard player Rammstein) using this “device”.
When the song comes to an end, improvised sex ends, and Till directs the toy into the room and douses it with white liquid.
Such a show is to the public’s liking, but the local authorities are not happy with it, so the group regularly pays fines for petty hooliganism and indecent behavior.
5. Sid Vicious
The bass player of the punk rock band Sex Pistols was such a scandalous person that the top 10 could be devoted only to his antics. This is especially surprising given the fact that the musician died at only 21 years old.
He could go “stoned into the trash” onto the stage and lose consciousness, send spectators who came to the concert, beat a journalist, etc.
No one knew what to expect from him, but in 1978 he was able to surpass himself.
Speaking in Texas, he said into the microphone that all the cowboys were gay (although he used a more obscene expression). Given that every second spectator was a cowboy, such words did not go unpunished and Sid was beaten right in the hall.
The concert, by the way, the group did not stop because of this, and in the end Vicious, standing with a broken nose, wrote with a knife on his chest “Repair me.”
4. Konstantin Kinchev
The leader of the Russian rock band Alisa first appeared at the center of the scandal in 1987, when he had a fight with militiamen in the St. Petersburg Sports Palace Yubileiny.
There Kinchev gave a concert, and law enforcement did not allow his pregnant wife to enter the hall. The angry musician before the song “Hey, you, there, on the other side” said that he dedicates it to all “foreigners, cops and other reptiles” present in the hall.
For this, the Soviet media immediately accused him of Nazism and fascism. In 2000, this topic reappeared when reporters saw the Nazi swastika on the cover of the Solstice.
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis and the company also never exemplified behavior, although they tried not to create frank “trash”.
The case was most strongly discussed when the musicians appeared on stage in socks that were worn on their genitals.
The RHCP participants themselves explained this by the fact that they often perform in strip bars and hot fans constantly climb onto the stage, so they need protection.
2. Tim Lambesis
The vocalist of the metalcore band As I Lay Dying excelled not on the stage, but in family life.
In 2013, not wanting to divorce his wife and give her most of the property and money, Lambesis decided to hire a killer for her.
Fortunately for his wife, operatives quickly came to the musician, detaining him during the transfer of money. For a long time denying guilt, Tim finally admitted, but the prosecution still required 9 years.
As a result, he was sentenced to 6 years in 2014, but was released under an amnesty in 2017.
1. Jerry Lee Lewis
The last story is semi-mythical in nature, as it happened back in 1958, but it is impossible not to mention it.
Rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, who was opening at the time with Chuck Berry, performed the song Great Balls of Fire, which was still popular, and set fire to the piano on stage during the song.
In those conservative times, such a trick caused a lot of noise. Rumor has it that, going backstage, he told Chuck Berry: "Try to surpass that, nigga."