10 Rock Shows That Went Horribly Wrong

A studio recording can be fixed, polished, and re-cut until it's perfect. A live show can't whatever happens on stage becomes permanent the second it happens. This is a rundown of 10 nights where that permanence turned ugly: a heckled Joni Mitchell reduced to pleading with a hostile crowd, Keith Moon collapsing three times before a teenager in the audience finished the set for him, and one infamous night in Montreal where a single act of disgust from Roger Waters ended up inspiring one of the best-selling albums in rock history. These are the shows that ended careers, broke up bands, and occasionally created something bigger than the meltdown itself.