Oh how the mighty have fallen. Here's a list of the world's biggest rock stars falling. These stage accidents range from Madonna falling to Bono's stage fall, to Taylor Swift, Joaquin Phoenix, Britney Spears and even the most recent fall from Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler (August of 2010).
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Aerosmith
It all went down during a performance of "Love in an Elevator" (8/17/2010) -- first, Aerosmith frontman (and soon to be American Idol judge) Steven Tyler playfully bumped lead guitarist Joe Perry. Joe Perry, then, retaliated by bumping Tyler right back ... sending him FACE FIRST into the crowd (see the video to your left).
This just kind of goes to show that maybe Steven Tyler should sing "Love in an Elevator" from a chair while wearing a helmet and body-pads every August, because his famous fall last year where he suffered more serious injuries went down on 8/06/2009 during, you guessed it, "Love in an Elevator".
The one in 2009 happened when Tyler fell while entertaining the crowd by dancing around as the sound crew replaced a fuse that blew during "Love in an Elevator", where Tyler was apparently livin' it up while he was goin' down.
Tyler suffered head, neck and shoulder injuries and the band postponed its next show altogether. Click here for that first fall.
Dizzee Rascal
In June of 2009, Dizzee Rascal, whose name I can't even recognize, was starting out a show at UKC (University of Kent), when he started thrusting forward with his crotch.
His crotch then grew a mind of its own and propelled him forward with the force of a thousand thrusts, making him do a swan dive onto the floor, face-first, stopping the music altogether and astonishing on-lookers, as well as you. The camera-man, ever the professional, filmed the whole thing instead of helping.
If you think about it, though, he really brought it on himself because if he would've been more famous, there would have actually been fans in the crowd to catch him.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam actually still rocks pretty hard, but this clip is an amazing example of how a rock star can go from the coolest guy in the room, to someone who has some recovery work to do in a matter of Olympic SECONDS.
He takes a spill while running across a stage (which we should all know NEVER to do by now), and that's kinda bad enough (at least he fall in time with the music?)
He then tries to get back up gracefully, only to drop the microphone in the process. Luckily, the sadistic bitched who put this clip together knew exactly what we were looking for and included a slow-mo moment as Eddie drops the mic.
This happened during Pearl Jam's 2006 European tour, which happened during THE FALL (see what we did there?)
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez (a.k.a. JLo, a.k.a., Root of All Evil, a.k.a. Jenny From The Block, a.k.a. Big Butt McKee) took a spill during her performance at the 2009 American Music Awards.
She was walking on top of a bunch of bent over dancers like they were steps (much like she does to migrant workers in her private home in Hell) and got to the front of the stage where she jumped off of one.
She then fell backward flat on her ass and, to the audience's surprise, didn't fly through the ceiling, but(t) actually ended up on her feet like Jackie Chan would.
Either way, a pretty great spill and a short-and-sweet video.
Rihanna
As Rihanna began performing "Te Amo" (5/10/2010) at a concert in the UK (The last girl on Earth tour), she lost her balance causing her to slip up and fall before even being able to mutter a line from the song.
It happens pretty quickly in this video and isn't that remarkable, but is definitely among the falls that happen because theatrically-big high-heels never did any favors for ANYONE's equilibrium.
Luckily she only came out with a few bruises, so at the very worst it was like going out on a nice, calm date with her ex, Chris Brown.
She took it really well and continued the concert as if nothing had happened, even though she took a bit of a beating; cause if there's one thing we know about Rihanna, it's that she can really take a beating.
Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams is a lame singer and we Americans really could give two turds about him, but this is funny.
Go to 00:05 for the lead-up to the fall.
At a 1996 concert in Leeds, England, he's in the middle of butchering a Lou Reed song when he decides to do a jig.
Not-surprisingly, he ends up staying on the ground and making a deal of it because his huge, thick, and throbbing ego just got hit in the nuts by his own lame attempt at dancing while jazz-singing over a classic.
U2
Showing us once again that the bigger (headed) they are, the harder they fall, Bono takes a fall on stage at about 00:13 (lead-up), while walking backwards in a Miami show in 2001, during the opening night of the tour. That couldn't have been good luck.
We can't all be Michael Jackson.
Katy Perry
In October of 2008, Katy Perry was singing her hit dude-bait song "I Kissed A Girl (And I Liked It)" at MTV’s Latin America Awards in Guadalajara, Mexico when she decided to land on top of a cake as opposed to jump out of one, because you know, that's a lot more empowering and stuff.
This is easily one of the best falls on this list because she falls repeatedly, tries to get up and people are cheering, because people are nice. Then she falls again and people stay quiet because they realize it's embarrassing. Then she falls a THIRD time and people start laughing their asses off.
There's only so many times you can count on the politeness of strangers before you're outed as a complete jackass.
Wonderful.
Joe Jonas
During their song titled "SOS" (for anyone playing the drinking game of ironic songs to get hurt to, feel free to drink now), Joseph Jonas, of The Jonas Clones, slips and falls on shattered glass at the 2007 America Music Awards, and cuts his hand quite badly, just as a resounding "Hell Yes" was felt across the internet, at the same time that the video was being recorded.
Nobody knows why they felt so great at that moment, but when it happened, millions of sound-minded Americans of all shapes, colors and sizes felt a little kick of joy in that moment. And isn't that what life is all about?
This video is made by a HUGE (both literal and figurative) fan. After they explain what happened to Joe Jonas, a rush of teen girls rushes the stage in this video, which kind of reminded us of that one scene in the Lion King. You know the one.
This video also now has this song stuck in our heads (click here for the non-Jonas song now stuck in your head) .
Axl Rose Falls Onstage
Mr Axl Rose was singing Knockin' On Heaven's Door in Columbia, in March of 2010 and then almost actually did so himself when he pulled the worst mistake that someone in his position (someone whose prime involved looking and sounding like he was on 8 different hallucinogens because he WAS on 8 different hallucinogens) possibly could've pulled: he moved slightly.
This lead, obviously, to his falling ass-first onto the stage while trying to execute an acrobatic feat for him: jogging lightly.