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‘Only three more songs till I kick your ass!’ Rock’n’roll’s biggest onstage bust-ups
Jane’s Addiction’s future is in doubt after a mid-song spat last weekend – but from the Kinks to Oasis, such squabbles are extremely common
The Who singer Roger Daltrey once told the Guardian how his famously fiery creative partnership with guitarist Pete Townshend erupted on the set of the iconic 1979 mod film Quadrophenia. ‘Yeah, what else you got?’ So he said, ‘Let him go or I’ll kill him.’” In terms of punch-ups onstage, though, their most notorious incident involved bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon, who turned up late to a gig at Newbury Corn Exchange to find they had been hurriedly replaced by a rhythm section culled from the support band. The Dundee rockers notched up a platinum-selling debut and Mercury prize nomination with 2007’s Hats Off to the Buskers, but anyone witnessing their post-reunion gig at the 250-capacity Deaf Institute in Manchester last year may remember them for different reasons.
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