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If music listeners hadn’t heard of New York buzz band Wavves prior to the band’s now-infamous May 2009 gig in Barcelona, Spain, they certainly did after. During a prime slot at the massive Primavera Sound Festival, singer Nathan Williams melted down on a grand scale, intentionally messing up his songs, screaming at audience members and fighting with his drummer, who eventually stormed off the stage after dumping beer on the singer’s head. The defiant frontman continued his awful set until the stagehands cut the power and hauled his gear offstage. Williams later conceded, “Mixing Ecstasy, Valium and Xanax before having to play in front of thousands of people was one of the more poor decisions I've made.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Cory Schwartz, Getty Images)
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15 Famous Flameo...Tantrums, sobbing fits, uncontrollable hysteria – sometimes the line between toddler and rock star can be a thin one. See how some of the biggest stars in music melted down like sniffling children onstage. —Jeff Royer (Photos: Getty Images)
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Jennifer LopezJ.Lo broke down in a sobbing fit in the middle of an October 2011 concert at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. The waterworks began during a performance of her song “One Love,” which she introduced by saying, “I’m going to sing you the last song I wrote about love. A lot has changed since then” – no doubt referring to her recent split from husband Marc Anthony. A true glutton for punishment, Lopez sang the song while surrounded by dancers dressed to look like her former loves, including Diddy, Ben Affleck, Cris Judd and Anthony himself. After wiping her eyes repeatedly, J.Lo rushed from the stage, leaving her fans massively confused. "I'm just a regular person like everybody else. I have feelings and emotions," Lopez told "Extra" after the show. "My life goes great, and it goes not great sometimes. But you know what? We keep going, and that's what it is." —Jeff Royer (Photo: Michael Buckner, Getty Images)
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Fiona AppleOn April 30, 2000, Fiona Apple took the stage of New York’s Roseland Ballroom in front of 3,000 adoring fans. Nerves and terrible sound quality soon got the best of her, however, and the rising starlet quickly plummeted into a massive meltdown. “I just wanted to do real well in New York ... But f***! I can't hear myself!" she yelled at the crowd. Apple ran from the stage after playing just a handful of songs, but not before half-begging, half-berating the journalists in the audience in an attempt to keep the flameout under wraps. It didn’t work. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Scott Wintrow, Getty Images)
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OasisIn 1996, one half of Oasis’ infamous Gallagher brothers pulled a stunt that would have his brother “looking back in anger” for a long, long time. Just minutes before the band was scheduled to perform an acoustic set for MTV Unplugged, Liam backed out of the show. Left with no other option, guitarist Noel Gallagher took the stage and sang lead in Liam’s place. As if that weren’t difficult enough, he had to do it under constant heckling from his brother, who had perched himself on a balcony above the band. Liam later claimed he had to cancel due to a sore throat; Noel insists he was just hung over. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto, Getty Images)
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Axl RoseOne thing Axl Rose does not like is cameras, especially at Guns N’ Roses concerts. When he sees one in the audience, he points it out to security immediately – even if he’s in the middle of a song. That’s precisely what happened during a 1991 concert in St. Louis in one of the more memorable Axl Rose meltdown moments. "Take that! Get that guy, and take that!” Rose yelled to security after spotting a camera pointed in his direction. Unfortunately, security took longer than Axl would have liked, so he took matters into his own hands. “I'll take it!” Rose yelled, and hurled himself into the crowd to claim the offending camera. Axl was eventually hauled back onto the stage, where he hurled insults at the venue’s security crew before tossing his mic and fleeing the stage. The drama didn’t end there. When the house lights went up 10 minutes later, fans rioted, damaging the venue and sending 60 people to the hospital. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Robert Cianflone, Getty Images)
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The Everly Broth...Don and Phil Everly made beautiful harmonies onstage and lived in terrible disharmony offstage, due in large part to their abuse of alcohol and drugs. During a 1973 show at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, the infighting got so bad the band actually broke up in the middle of the concert. The trouble began when the show promoter hopped onstage to cancel the remainder of the night’s performance due to Don being “too emotional” to play; it was later revealed that he’d been downing margaritas on an empty stomach to the point that he was unable to remember the lyrics to his own songs. An enraged Phil smashed his guitar and stormed off, vowing to "never get on stage with that man again.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Keystone, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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CreedCreed: An even bigger train wreck onstage than they were on tape, thanks in large part to the tomfoolery of singer Scott Stapp. His crowning achievement came during a concert at Chicago’s Allstate Arena in December 2002 that went so terribly some fans actually sued to get their money back. Stapp reportedly showed up so inebriated he spent most of the set sitting or lying down on the stage. According to the litigious fans, Stapp was "unable to sing the lyrics to a single Creed song.” The band broke up one year later. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Kevin Winter, Getty Images)
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Ryan AdamsRyan Adams. Bryan Adams. It’s funny, because their names sound so much alike. Well, funny to everyone but Ryan Adams, who went bonkers during a 2006 show in Nashville after a heckler repeatedly yelled for him to play the other Adams’ hit song “Summer of ’69.” A less-than-amused Ryan demanded that the venue turn on the house lights. He then plunged into the audience, located the heckler, handed him $28 to cover the price of his ticket and refused to play another song until the joker left the venue. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Rob Loud, Getty Images)
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Billy CorganNo one’s ever accused the Smashing Pumpkins frontman of being stable, but Corgan’s actions during a 2008 show at United Place in New York were extreme even by his standards. Apparently miffed that critics had panned the previous night’s show as a schlockfest of boring standbys and messy covers, Corgan decided to invite a fan onstage to get his opinion of the proceedings. Unfortunately, the fan answered honestly: “It sucked.” A huffy Corgan then directed his anger in every possible direction but himself – but mostly at his fan. "I liked that song you wrote,” he said dryly. “It was a big hit in Europe". —Jeff Royer (Photo: Kevin Winter, Getty Images)
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Jim MorrisonThere are 50 different variations of what went down on March 1, 1969, at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami. Some say Doors frontman Jim Morrison tried to incite a riot. Others say he was intoxicated and berated the audience with obscenities. Others say he exposed himself in front of 12,000 fans. Most say all of the above. Whether the rumors are true or not, Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure and open profanity, and another page in the lore of the Lizard King was written. —Jeff Royer (Photo: File photo, AP Images)
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The WhoWhile we don’t have time to chronicle the many misadventures of The Who’s Keith Moon, we do have time to relive one infamous event at Cow Palace in San Francisco on November 20, 1973. The maniacal drummer was already flaming out when he took the stage obliterated on a cocktail of brandy and horse tranquilizers. He passed out once during “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” and again during “Magic Bus.” Fed up, guitarist Pete Townshend called into the crowd, "Can anyone play the drums? – I mean somebody good.” Nineteen-year-old Scott Halpin answered the call, and filled in for the next three songs. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Keystone, Hulton Archive, Getty Images)
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WavvesIf music listeners hadn’t heard of New York buzz band Wavves prior to the band’s now-infamous May 2009 gig in Barcelona, Spain, they certainly did after. During a prime slot at the massive Primavera Sound Festival, singer Nathan Williams melted down on a grand scale, intentionally messing up his songs, screaming at audience members and fighting with his drummer, who eventually stormed off the stage after dumping beer on the singer’s head. The defiant frontman continued his awful set until the stagehands cut the power and hauled his gear offstage. Williams later conceded, “Mixing Ecstasy, Valium and Xanax before having to play in front of thousands of people was one of the more poor decisions I've made.” —Jeff Royer (Photo: Cory Schwartz, Getty Images)
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R. KellyKelly made a royal mess of his co-headlining tour with Jay-Z in 2004. Bickering and jealousy led to many canceled dates and messy moments onstage, none messier than his set at Madison Square Garden on October 29, 2004. In the middle of his show, Kelly ran from the stage, claiming his life was in jeopardy and that audience members were pointing guns at him (Jay-Z later called the supposed gun sightings a publicity stunt). Kelly then engaged in a scuffle with a member of Jay-Z’s entourage and received a face full of pepper spray. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Donna Ward, Getty Images)
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Milli VanilliIn 1989, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus were on top of the pop world. They’d sold millions of copies of their debut album, were nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy and referred to themselves in interviews as the new Elvis, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan. All of that changed in a heartbeat during a concert at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, on July 21, 1989. Midway through the duo’s performance of “Girl You Know It’s True,” the vocal track started skipping, revealing the fact that the two had been lip-synching. Unsure of what to do, Fab and Rob fled the stage. The ensuing year was a nightmare. The group was stripped of its Grammy, dropped from its label and slapped with a class action lawsuit for defrauding fans. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Douglas C. Pizac, AP Images)
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Ashlee SimpsonJessica Simpson’s little sis was having a hard enough time gaining credibility in the pop world when this disastrous event occurred. On October 23, 2004, she took the stage of “Saturday Night Live” for what should have been a debutante ball of sorts. Her first song, “Pieces of Me,” went off without a hitch, but when her band launched into a second song, the vocals for “Pieces of Me” once again blared from the speakers, revealing to everyone in attendance – and the millions watching at home – that Simpson was lip-synching. A panicky Ashlee froze and grinned before doing an awkward hoe-down jig and bolting from the stage 30 seconds later. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Frank Micelotta, Getty Images)
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Kings of LeonThings got messy in a hurry during Kings of Leon’s July 2011 concert at St. Louis’ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. The culprit: A flock of pigeons lurking in the rafters of the stage. The pigeons were apparently less than impressed with the openings songs of the band’s set and voiced their opinion in the least ambiguous way possible; namely, by bombarding Kings of Leon with poop. The band fled the stage and canceled the show just three songs into its set, the final insult being the moment when one of the pigeons defecated into bassist Jared Followill’s mouth. —Jeff Royer (Photo: Andy Kropa, Getty Images)
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