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Well, I think it was just one of those emotional outbursts that happened.

today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 musicians who ended up getting hurt by the very people they were performing for.

Number 10 David Bowie Some people believe that David Bowie's distinctive eyes come from a form of heterochromia.

He ended up with two different colored eyes when a schoolmate punched him in the face over a girl they both fancied.

Jump forward to his final tour in 2004, and

some idiot in the crowd decided to throw a lollipop directly at the Thin White Duke.

Unfortunately, it somehow landed directly on his bad eye, lodging itself right in the socket.

Bowie was understandably shocked and briefly cursed the fan out.

But being the rock legend that he is, he proceeded to finish his set a consummate professional right up to the end.

Number nine Bebe Rexha Most people attend concerts to have a good time, but

you're always bound to get a few weirdos.

During a 2023 Bebe Rexha performance in New York, a fan decided to throw his phone at the singer, striking her directly in the face and immediately causing her to double over.

Well, he claimed that he thought it would be a funny thing to do.

I think this is a common, unfortunate trend that's going on.

He later changed his story to say that he wanted to throw her the phone so she could take a picture with it and return it.

Rexha ended up with a black eye as a result of his stupidity.

Lou Reed on the long list of altercations between fans and musicians, Lou Reed certainly has one of the strangest.

Pedro lives down at the Wilshire Hotel, looks out a window without glass.

During a solo performance of the Velvet Underground's classic Waiting for the man back in 1973, Reed was accosted by some random dude who proceeded to bite him on his backside.

Apparently, the attacker shouted the word leather before chowing down on the singer.

If you're wondering what possessed this person to do such a thing, you're not the only one.

Thankfully, security was able to remove him before anything else happened.

Brendon Urie Whether you enjoy Panic at the Disco singer Brendon Urie's music or not, you gotta respect how he handled his band's Reading Festival performance in 2006.

After getting struck by a bottle to the head mid song, you can visibly hear Yuri's vocals quickly trail off as he lost consciousness.

Yeah, the bottle legitimately knocked him out.

What makes the whole thing even better in our book is that he eventually got back to his feet and finished the show.

the band would go on to call the gig one of the best they ever did.

Much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poison rationality.

Number six Noel Gallagher Oasis were V Festival Toronto in 2008 when some random dude stormed the stage and proceeded to shove guitarist and primary songwriter Noel Gallagher to the floor.

He obviously didn't see this coming at all, falling awkwardly on his guitar, breaking several ribs in the process.

The danger was immediately quelled by the security team and Liam Gallagher even tried to land a cheeky little punch as the attacker was escorted away.

He later pleaded guilty to assault and was sued by the band after they were forced to cancel several subsequent appearances.

Number 5 Steven Tyler we could have picked up a 1978 incident where Steven Tyler got hit by a bottle that caused him facial injuries, but

it turns out something Even worse happened one year prior.

In 1977, Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry were both struck by a firework that some dim witted fan let fall fly off into the stage's general direction.

Tyler suffered a burned cornea and Perry's hand was injured, forcing them both to immediately go to the hospital.

Why do fans enjoy throwing things at Aerosmiths so much?

We don't know for sure, but there's an undeniable pattern emerging in the late 70s.

4 Mick Jagger the last thing any singer expects while in the middle of a performance is to get hit by a chair.

However, in a move that was pulled straight out of the WWE playbook, a concert attendee at a 1966 Rolling Stones gig in Marseille decided to lob a chair at Mick Jagger.

As for the reasoning behind this move, your guess is as good as ours.

The damage to Mick's face was thankfully just a black eye, although he was forced to spend some time in hospital to recover.

We're sure that's the type of incident that can leave a performer feeling a bit paranoid from that point onwards, but

Satisfaction Number three Frank Zappa Frank Zappa ended up spending six months in a wheelchair following an onstage assault at a London show in 1971.

Supposedly the man in question was the boyfriend of a woman who claimed that she was in love with Zappa.

So he decided to push the legendary musician off a 12 foot high stage into the orchestra pit, moving to Montana somewhere grown up beyond all stars flat.

Rumors immediately spread that Frank had been killed in the fall, but he lived.

He did suffer a myriad of injuries though, including a broken leg, jaw, a few cracked ribs, a fractured skull, and

damage to his larynx that forever impacted his singing voice.

And ride like a cowboy into the doors of Montana.

Iggy Pop, the famously rebellious leader of the Stooges, stepped a little bit too far out of line in 1974 when he was dealing with a particularly toug Michigan crowd with many bikers in attendance.

It didn't take long for them to start insulting Iggy and his band.

Instead of shying away from confrontation, Pop decided to try and beat them with his music, launching into a 45 minute version of Louie Louie with altered lyrics designed to offend bikers.

After that, he launched himself into the crowd to start a fight with one particularly mouthy heckler and was quickly beaten to a pulp by the entire gang.

It should be pointed out that he did in fact return to the stage to finish the show.

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Nat King Cole was truly one of the defining voices of his generation and a unifying force in a difficult time for race relations in the United States.

In 1956, Cole performed to a Birmingham, Alabama crowd, but

did not realize that a group of Ku Klux Klan members had planned to storm the stage and attack him.

What were you singing when those men attacked you?

One of the old standard songs of some sort.

It wasn't the particular song that was singing I could have been singing Nearer My God.

They succeeded in doing so two songs into his set, pulling him off stage and causing a minor injury.

But thankfully, their larger plan was foiled by the police.

Cole made his way back to the mic and received a rapturous T10 minute standing ovation.

What collision between musicians and the crowd sticks out in your mind?