10 Craziest Musical Urban Legends

It's hard to really think of the days before shock-rock and not bring up Alice Cooper. Long before KISS and Slipknot had really started to strike fear into the hearts of parents, Cooper was the ringleader of rock and roll mayhem, known for "killing" babies and adding various macabre elements to every show he played. However, the real start of his notoriety came entirely by accident... at the expense of some poor chicken.

Despite having some weird first steps on albums like Pretties For You, Cooper's luck didn't turn around until he made his entrance at the Toronto Peace Festival. Going on between the Doors and John Lennon, Cooper's finale always revolved around opening up feather pillows and covering the audience with debris. On this occasion though, Cooper spotted a chicken at the foot of the stage and (not really being the farming type) threw it into the audience.

In one of the more macabre things he ever did, everyone in the crowd tore it to pieces and threw the remnants of it back onstage. Whereas animal shelters nowadays would have been outraged, this is actually what Cooper credits with making him a shock-rock star, even getting a phone call from Frank Zappa telling him to run with it. Though Cooper has never been known to engage in any outlandish behavior now, you probably shouldn't let him around any of your livestock.