Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Celebrities Injured on Stage

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:43:52 +0000

OMG Dem Lovato fell! She is my all time favorite singer and actress! How did I not know?

By: Carly

Carly — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:48:58 +0000

This isn’t really a famous fall, but Hawk Nelson’s lead singer jumped off the stage, trying to surf the crowd. Unfortunately, the majority of people at the concert were teenage girls, so no one caught him and he just kind of fell to the floor. I was at this concert, and he didn’t get up for a couple minutes. We thought he was dead! It happened during the Revolve tour, a Christian thingie for teenage girls.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:54:06 +0000

Gene Simmons once accidentally caught his hair on fire while doing the fire spitting trick during a show. A stange hand hand to put it out.

Paul Stanley has had to get 3 hip replacements due to all the jumping around he does onstage.

By: North

North — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:42:00 +0000

And to go the teeny-bopper route, I remember reading the Tiger Beat article when Rick Springfield was electrocuted on-stage in the early ’70s. That was back when he used to wear a loincloth while performing.

By: Pippin

Pippin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:48:00 +0000

I don’t think any of them ever got seriously injured, but members of the Unicorns (mostly Nick Diamonds and Alden Ginger) often fought physically with each other during their shows. It was actually sort of a routine thing…it would have been surprising had they not fought with each other. I never actually went to see any of their concerts…I didn’t know about them when the band was still together, and I probably would have been ten or eleven years old when they broke up…not old enough to go to a rock concert, especially not a band like the Unicorns. But I did hear that once, during the song “Child Star” (which features a part towards the end in which Nick and Alden sing “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you” at each other) Alden actually knocked Nick down and hit him in the face with a microphone. Ouch.

Of course, there’s some incidents that weren’t so funny or intentional…I think Courtney Love once leapt off the stage into the audience, and a lot of the men started tearing her clothes off and tried to rape her. She got back on the stage, nearly naked and crying. And Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon has been harrassed by fans frequently. Someone in Switzerland came on the stage, knocked her microphone in her face and actually bit her. That’s what I heard. She also had drum sticks thrown at her.

And there’s also that thing with the Who, when Keith Moon blew up his drums and (I believe) almost set Roger Daltrey’s hair on fire…or was it Pete Townshend? I can’t recall…

By: nt4thbook

nt4thbook — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:37:00 +0000

Jesse James of My Morning Jacket. Deep split between speaker and stage.

By: Tron

Tron — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:37:00 +0000

Iggy pop: did it first before GG allin (the glass, the rolling around in various things, picking fights w/fans (or people who HATED him, getting the shit kicked out of him and then still doing the show)).

Patti Smith: during Gloria, spun on the stage during part of the song (only done live, you dont’ hear this part on the record so i dont know the lyrics). and fell off the stage, cracking one of the vetebrae in her neck. She was in a neck brace for a long time after that.

By: Tex

Tex — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:42:00 +0000

Remember the early days of SNL? Chevy Chase was always doing pratfalls as he immitated President Ford. I have recently read that he suffers back pain from all of those falls. Another early SNL regular, Buck Henry was cut by John Belushi’s sword during a skit called Samari Taylor. In the next scene Buck is wearing a large band-aide on his forehead

By: stacy

stacy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:08:00 +0000

@Krystal – yes, and if he still lives there when I have kids someday, I’m so making them trick-or-treat at his house. :)

By: Krystal

Krystal — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:34:00 +0000

You live down the street from Sid(from Slipknot)?!? That’s so cool!