Rock Stars' Wild Pranks: Chaos & Laughter

0:00It's April 1st. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is Music News today. Your AI-powered music briefing. Rockstars have always been kings of chaos, pulling epic pranks that range from baby chickens loose in hotels to chainsaws tearing a furniture. Back in the late 1950s, Johnny Cash and his band let 500 chicks run wild through an Omaha hotel, turning the place into a feathery. Frenzy, Elton John once stormed Iggy Pop Stage dressed as a gorilla, and Joe Walsh made hotel rooms his personal demolition derby. Bands cranked it up on tour, sparking full-on prank wars. Kiss and rush hit each other with silly string, marbles, and ended with a massive cream pie battle onstage in San Diego in 1975. Black Sabbath spooked themselves silly in a Welsh castle while recording, rigging creepy tapes and mirrors to freak out bandmates like Tony Iamiand. Bill Ward. Fans spelt the sting too, especially on April Fools. Tool teased the music leak in 2015, crushing hopes after years without new tracks, while nine-inch nails announced a fake Timberland album.

1:06Packed with wild collapse, George Harrison sent Phil Collins a bogus mix with awful congas only to reveal it as a set of decades later. Even stage shows got in on it, like Metallica faking a huge explosion during enter salmon in Mexico City in 1997, sending fake, burning crew across the stage. Richie Blackmore and Rainbow bricked up a bandmate's door at a French chateau, and Keith Moon blasted phony disaster warnings through villages with hidden speakers. These tales capture rocks playful wild side, proving the parties never over when mischief meets the music.