Tuesday 11 October 2011

Rock And Roll Injuries




Lou Reed was playing a gig in Buffalo in 1973 when a man invaded the stage, shouted “leather” and bit him on the buttocks

Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham collapsed onstage in Nuremberg in 1980 after eating 27 bananas

Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst suffered 'testicular trauma' after being hit in the balls with a lemon while onstage in Chicago

Courtney Love's dog died in 2002 after eating one of her breast implants (having had them removed previously and kept as souvenirs)

Elvis Presley died of a drug induced heart attack. Drugs in Elvis' system when he died: Codeine, Morphine, Demerol, Avental, Valium, Quaaludes, Placidyl, Carbrital, Valmid, Amytal, Nembutal, Elavil and Sinutab.

Keith Richards crashed his restored Nazi staff car twice in 1969 after falling asleep at the wheel. He fell off a library ladder at home and broke three ribs in 1998. And he was injured when he fell out of a Coconut tree in 2006.

Source: The Q Magazine Music Bible



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