| POLL RESULTS |
| Week: |
442 |
| Date: |
12/8/2014 |
| Question: |
What was the worst moment in Rock history? |
| Your Vote |
Option |
Votes |
Percent |
| |
John Lennon is assassinated (December 8, 1980)
 |
106 |
15.7% |
| |
The untimely deaths of: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Keith Moon, John Bonham, Elvis, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison
|
42 |
6.2% |
| |
Anytime when any Rocker accepts a knighthood
|
32 |
4.7% |
| |
Hell breaks lose while The Stones play Altamont after hiring Hells Angels to Provide Security (Dec 6, 1969)
|
32 |
4.7% |
| |
The day the music died: Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens die in plane crash (Feb 2, 1959)
|
32 |
4.7% |
| |
Fans are killed at the Who's Cincinnati concert (December 3, 1979)
|
31 |
4.6% |
| |
Janis Joplin dies from herion overdose (Oct 4, 1970) just 3 weeks after Jimi Hendrix dies (Sep 18, 1970)
|
31 |
4.6% |
| |
PMRC hearings (Aug 1985) for adoption of warning stickers on record albums whose lyrics deemed to be offensive
|
30 |
4.4% |
| |
Stones' Jagger/Richards refuse to credit fellow band members for songs they helped write (1960s thru 1980s)
|
30 |
4.4% |
| |
Elvis meets Nixon and kisses his ass just to get a phony medal (Dec. 21, 1970)
|
29 |
4.3% |
| |
Rolling Stones cave in to the censors and change lyrics on The Ed Sullivan Show (January 15, 1967)
|
29 |
4.3% |
| |
The drug death of Elvis Presley (August 16, 1977)
|
29 |
4.3% |
| |
Jerry Lee Lewis marries his 13 year old first cousin Myra while still married to his second wife (Dec 1957)
|
28 |
4.1% |
| |
Disco come alive (Dec 12, 1977), as Saturday Night Fever premiered
|
27 |
4% |
| |
John Fogerty is sued for plagiarizing himself by Fantasy Records (in 1988)
|
27 |
4% |
| |
The Grammys gives the finger to Rock music for years (all of the 1960s)
|
27 |
4% |
| |
Milli Vanilli's lip-syncing exposed (Nov 12, 1990)
|
26 |
3.8% |
| |
Rap and Hip-hop artists are allowed in the Rock 'n Roll Hall (1983)
|
25 |
3.7% |
| |
Led Zeppelin fails to credit Blues artists when using their song lyrics (late 1960s thru 1970s)
|
10 |
1.5% |
| |
The air crashes that took Randy Rhoads, Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ricky Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd
|
10 |
1.5% |
| |
Jim Morrison dies suddenly (July 3, 1971)
|
8 |
1.2% |
| |
Judas Priest taken to court over subliminal messages (July 17, 1990)
|
8 |
1.2% |
| |
Lynyrd Skynyrd's deadly plane crash (October 20, 1977)
|
8 |
1.2% |
| |
Darrell Abbott's (aka Dimebag Darrell) onstage murder (December 8, 2004)
|
6 |
0.9% |
| |
Brian Wilson suffers his first nervous breakdown (December 1964)
|
3 |
0.4% |
| |
Cat Stevens converts to Islam and quits the music industry (1977)
|
3 |
0.4% |
| |
Mama Cass Elliot dies suddenly of a heart attack (July 29, 1974)
|
3 |
0.4% |
| |
Bill Wyman starts relationship with 13-year-old girl at 47, then marries her 5 years later (June 1989)
|
2 |
0.3% |
| |
Jim Morrison aledgly exposes himself on stage in Coconut Grove, Florida (March 1, 1969)
|
1 |
0.1% |
| |
The Beatles' Bigger than Jesus' backlash (March 4, 1966)
|
1 |
0.1% |
| |
The murder of Marvin Gaye by his father (April 1, 1984)
|
1 |
0.1% |
| |
David Crosby goes to prison for 5 months on drug and gun charges (August 5, 1983)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Debbie Harry bickers w/ former Blondie members during the band's induction ceremony for the RnR Hall (Mar 2006)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Gary Glitter jailed for kiddie porn (November 12, 1999)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
James Brown goes to prison after a two-state automobile chase with police (December 15, 1988)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
John Lennon and Yoko Ono get naked on their album cover (November 1968)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Keith Moon accidentally kills his chauffeur (January 4, 1970)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Led Zeppelin 'involved' with sex shark attack (July 28, 1969)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a dove (March 1981)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Paul McCartney Gets Busted for Weed in Japan (January 16, 1980)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Sid Vicious charged with killing girlfriend Nancy Spungen (October 12, 1978)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
Sinead O'Connor tears up a photo of the Pope on TV's Saturday Night Live (October 3, 1992)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
The Michael Jackson child sex scandal breaks (1990s)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
The movie Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band flops (July 24, 1978)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
The Redlands drug bust of the Rolling Stones (February 12, 1967)
|
0 |
0% |
| |
The suicide death of Kurt Cobain (April 5, 1994)
|
0 |
0% |
| Totals: |
677 |
100% |