The Biggest Rock and Roll Scandals

As we near the end of this difficult political season, we continue to hear from WikiLeaks and the scandals that are purportedly suggested in the stolen emails from Hillary’s team. Scandal is a known friend of politics, and it’s also a part of rock and roll. Here are a few of the biggest rock scandals we can remember…

John Lennon caused a real social scandal in March of 1966 when he told a reporter from the British newspaper, The Evening Standard, that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.” You can only imagine how Middle America took those words. Kids made bonfires out of their records, and radio stations (albeit briefly) stopped playing their hits.

Do we have enough time to detail the madness singer Ozzy Osbourne has provided? Let’s see, he bit the head off a bat in an executive record label meeting, was arrested for ‘indecent exposure’ for taking a leak right on the Alamo, and this year was thrown out of the house for getting caught having an affair with his hairdresser.

Jim Morrison had way too much to drink one night in Miami, and exposed himself to a raucous crown, arrested and charged with ‘indecent exposure’.

Those are the biggest scandals we can remember. How about you?

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