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Morrissey abandonded last nights concert in Liverpool midway through the second song after being struck by a 'missile', thrown from the audience. It got me thinking if any similar has happened to our boys. I know of the time when Keith battered the stage invader with his guitar but can't remember them ever walking off stage over a similar incident. There are some very knowledgeable people here so I hope someone can tell me if, when and where.

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Did Morrissey cry?


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they had to stop the show when Keith got electrocuted at Sacramento in december 65 -
but the power went out and they had no choice, so that probably doesn't count. :E

Mick needed stitches after he got hit with a flying piece of chair at Marseilles in march 66 -
i never read about them stopping the show on account of it, but i don't know if he just kept singing with the blood dripping
maybe he did - they were accustomed to carrying on regardless of various bandmembers getting tackled, dragged off the stage, etc -
they are the Rolling Stones



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the stones are professionals , they know fans paid good money to see and hear them perform. they stood tall at altamont when most bands would of coward in fear

Lou Reed left stage in Aarhus, Denmark, after a stupid person had thrown a beer on stage after Lou.
It was March 1977. Lou had played some 55 minutes - then he said: "Nobody throws Beer at me" and left stage.
Shortly after the stage and consert place, Vejlby-Risskov Hallen, had turned into a big mess. Things were destroyed - both music- and hall equipment.

Led Zep had to leave early in Italy July 71 after the police tear gassed the crowd. The Who had to leave early in 68 at the Fillmore East when the building caught on fire. Townshend notoriously hit the police man on stage thinking he was a lunitic fan.

well if shows being stopped by authorities count, the early Stones had miles of those.
the Kurhaus gig comes to mind - august 8th 1964

The Stones stopped a show in 2005 due to a bomb alert. But they came back and finished the show.

axl rose walks off stage anytime a fan looks at him wrong

sure: 08-08-1964 Kurhaus - Scheveningen - Holland. Show stoped after 3 songs.
Chairs came tumbling down on the stage! Check you-tube, it's there!

See it happen here ))

I think that on Colson's 72 Tour site there is an account of Mick having a whiskey bottle thrown at him and thereafter him addressing the audience by telling them not to throw bottles at him. Also, there is the famous boot story in Anaheim at the close of the 78 US tour where there was one really cool boot thrown on stage, and both Ronnie & Mick expressed later that they wished that the guy had thrown the 2nd boot up, because it was a cool pair.

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Kick me like you did before
I can't even feel the pain no more
Rocks Off, 1972

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with sssoul
well if shows being stopped by authorities count, the early Stones had miles of those.
the Kurhaus gig comes to mind - august 8th 1964

A chaotic couple of weeks that must have been, hot on the heels of the riots in Blackpool and Belfast in late July which saw those shows abandoned. The Belfast show lasted something like 8 minutes.

Bands should have used "The Faces solution" - having their own bar on stage. Then it wouldn't have been necessary throwing beers on stage.
I didn't know about it before Rod Stewart mentioned it in an interview.
A very cool thing having a bar / bartender on stage serving drinks etc. )



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It's a shame that one idiot ruins it for everyone.


I don't blame him for leaving. He's a musician, not a stuntman.

Didn't Keith kick someone in the face when the Scots came to town on their summer holiday? This was in the early to mid-sixties.
The crowd went even more wild and the band had to leave the stage in a hurry!

What a absolute wimp. Is this rock n roll or broadway???? Getting hit by a open water bottle? C'mon and then leaving, what a conceited, arrogant nerd.

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See it happen here ))

THIS IS HOW TO HANDLE STUFF THROWN AT YOU . . .







or like this . . .











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STONES - 1964 - KURHAUS

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Didn't Keith kick someone in the face when the Scots came to town on their summer holiday? This was in the early to mid-sixties.
The crowd went even more wild and the band had to leave the stage in a hurry!

I think the gig you're referring to is Blackpool 64. The British journalist Roy Carr was in the audience and wrote about it in the foreword to his excellent 70s coffee table book The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record.

Here is some excellent footage of the Stones retreating from the stage after fans rioted at the Kurhaus in Holland 64.

Remember Toronto 2003 with a bottled guest...
Keith doin´the stage police around 4:55...

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Lou Reed left stage in Aarhus, Denmark, after a stupid person had thrown a beer on stage after Lou.
It was March 1977. Lou had played some 55 minutes - then he said: "Nobody throws Beer at me" and left stage.
Shortly after the stage and consert place, Vejlby-Risskov Hallen, had turned into a big mess. Things were destroyed - both music- and hall equipment.

Lou Reed left on that tour after 20 Minutes in Mannheim. Then somebody came out and said he was annoyed by a person and the person should leave the theatre. Very strange. Anyway he came back and left after 10 Minutes again with the words that he's fed up.
I do not think that Lou Reed would do it today, but there are still some artists who just overdid it.

I think in one of the Dallas 89 shows shows Mick addresses the audience after having a bottle thrown at him, tapes circulate of this.

At Wembley 82 I remember an apple thrown at Mick, he caught it (behind his back) and threw it back.

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It's a shame that one idiot ruins it for everyone.


I don't blame him for leaving. He's a musician, not a stuntman.

Why not just get the culprit ejected and continue the concert?
Why punish an entire audience for one persons stupidity?
They've paid good money and done nothing wrong. If he'd been badly injured I could understand it and I suspect the audience would too, but there is no reason to end the show like that.

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See it happen here ))

i wonder if the Morrissey fans in the first 10 rows pummeled the beer-thrower?!?!?
This is why the Stones hire models for the front rows.

it is strange that someone that presuambly payedid a pretty penny for that ticket
would throw a tasty 32 ouncer at him. But (as a beer-lover myself) drinking beer
out of a plastic cup sucks.

it seemed to bounce off without doing much damage.
maybe when Morrissey felt the wetness on his head he thought is was blood. (??)

the show must go on. this will only encourage others to embarrass him.


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It's a shame that one idiot ruins it for everyone.


I don't blame him for leaving. He's a musician, not a stuntman.

Why not just get the culprit ejected and continue the concert?
Why punish an entire audience for one persons stupidity?
They've paid good money and done nothing wrong. If he'd been badly injured I could understand it and I suspect the audience would too, but there is no reason to end the show like that.

It goes without saying that the guy who threw the bottle should be ejected, and given a little rough justice on top of that.

Morrissey's reaction was extreme, but remember it is Morrissey, Mr. Super-Sensitive. Yes, it looks like he wasn't physically hurt, but he's probably still crying over being treated like a carnival milk bottle.

I'm sure his fans will now be extra-aware of stopping anyone looking like they are about to throw anything on his stage. Which is good. Why wait until the guy is "badly injured?"

A lot of people were disappointed, and that's a shame. But maybe after this, people will thing twice about throwing stuff at musicians. It's a line that shouldn't be crossed.

Happened to Johnny Winter in Roskilde.
100% right to abandon the stage.

He's at it again!

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