The Ten Most Embarrassing Moments In Pop Music

The Ten Most Embarrassing Moments In Pop Music

Music history is awash with absurd onstage incidents. Remember the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards when Nirvana bassist Krist Novosolic tossed his guitar into the air only to watch it plummet directly into his face? What about when The Who's Pete Townsend executed an energetic windmill manoeuvre and impaled his hand on his own guitar's whammy bar? And then there was the time Metallica's James Hetfield misinterpreted a stage cue and ended up standing in the middle of a pyrotechnic display, collecting a series of second and third degree burns for his error.

But no matter the scale of injury or degree of embarrassment, it is only Beyonce and Mika's contemporaries that can truly understand their pain. It is the musicians of today who know that at best their falls, fumbles and failures will be relayed around the world in by guffawing bloggers and online reporters. Or worst, and most commonly, the incidents will be snapped by camera phones or filmed on pocket-sized video recorders and posted online to live on forever.

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