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What are various bands best known for outside of their musical abilities? Kiss for example are best known for their makeup.
Tattoos - A,J, McLean
A.J. McLean the "bad boy" of the Backstreet Boys has multiple tattoos all over his body. His most recent tattoos are the skulls on his neck.
Celeste
Being a recovering and relapsing addict - A.J. McLean
Before he entered rehab A.J. McLean became addicted to cocaine and alcohol to the point where he refused to go to work. He then had a relapse about 3 months later and went back to rehab to get his head on straight. A.J. hasn't had a drop to drink or done cocaine for 6 years.
Celeste
Heroin and Alcohol - Aerosmith
In the 1970s Joe Perry and Steven Tyler were known as the "Toxic Twins" because both of them were addicted to heroin and alcohol.
In many interviews Steven describes himself as being a "survivor" not knowing if he would be sober if Joe and the rest of the band weren't sober.
In many interviews Steven describes himself as being a "survivor" not knowing if he would be sober if Joe and the rest of the band weren't sober.
Celeste
His alleged "animal sacrifice" at a concert - Alice Cooper
In 1969 at a concert stop on Toronto Alice Cooper was the subject of a lot of contreversey after a fan threw a chicken on the stage. Alice threw it back thinking that it would fly. The chicken didn't fly so much as it plummeted and the audience tore it to pieces. Alice was horrified to find that the newspapers the next day had caught wind of the incident and wrote headlines such as "Alice Cooper kills a chicken and the blood runs down." To add to this urban myth Frank Zappa phoned Alice Cooper and asked him if he had sacrificed a chicken on stage. He replied "No I didn't." Frank Zappa's reaction was "don't tell anybody." To this day the name Alice Cooper is still regarded as the "chicken killer" even though he claims that he never did sacrifice a chicken.
Celeste
Crazy viking related songs - Amon Amarth
The majority of their songs involve vikings in one way or another.
Travis
Their windmill headbanging - Amon Amarth
Members of Amon Amarth love swirling their heads around, making their hair spin like a windmill. During "Death In Fire" at Summer Breeze, all of them do it, even the drummer at one point!
DJ Blaze
Their Lesbian - Amy Ray and Emily Saliers (The Indigo Girls)
In an interview in the early 90s the duo admitted that they were in "a relationship" which caused their music to be banned in several places.
Celeste
Father-in-law calls for boycott of her music - Amy Winehouse
In August 2007, Amy cancelled concert appearances claiming "exhaustion" as the reason. Rumor had it that she suffered form depression, possible suicidal tendencies, eating disorders, and bizarre behavior including a tendency to afflict self-harm. Then she was found injured and dripping in blood along with her husband. She denied an alleged fight between them, maintaining that her injuries were self-inflicted instead. In that atmosphere, her father-in-law called for the public to boycott her music, in what he consedered a last-ditch attempt to get through to her and make her seek help for her problems and go to rehab. This unusual story is no doubt familiar to many who would have no recognition of any of her music.
Millie Verst
Appearing naked on her band's album cover - Anabella Lwin
I'm not kidding either. Annabella Lwin then 15 years old appeared naked on the cover of Bow Wow Wow's first and only hit I Want Candy.
This move horrified Anabella's mother who then kicked her out of her house.
This move horrified Anabella's mother who then kicked her out of her house.
Celeste
Opening for the Stones at El Mocambo - April Wine
Despite having three hits in the Seventies and Early eighties (and putting out several really good albums), April Wine is known by a lot of people as the band that opened for the Stones the night that Keith Richards was busted for heroin...and hanging out with the Prime Minister's wife-G.P.
Gary Phelps
Temper - Arturo Toscanini
Even though he was the best composer of the 20th Century, his temper almost made many of his musicians quit.
Paul Warren
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