[re_nortex]

We've chatted just a few days ago and you're far more tuned into pop culture than I am. So I ask: What rock singer (or band) was known for biting the head off snakes (or perhaps it was a duck) back in the 60s or 70s? Was that another urban myth? If not, was it a real creature or just a prop? Yep, I am so naive and clueless about this stuff! Someone even told me that Eddie Haskell became a famous rock star but even I didn't believe that. :)

[Norm Lenhart]

Ozzy Osbourne. At a record exec meeting. He was drunk as a skunk. Then he did it with a bat that bit him.

Stage act/attention whoring and drunk. It made him millions. Not that I think it was a great idea.

[Billthedrill]

What rock singer (or band) was known for biting the head off snakes (or perhaps it was a duck) back in the 60s or 70s? Was that another urban myth?

Well, Ozzy Osbourne had a schtick where he'd bite the head off a rubber bat at the end of the show. One day in Des Moines one of the audience tossed him a real bat - probably already dead - and when he bit the head off and spit it out they couldn't find it again. That turned out to be a problem, and Oz took the entire course of rabies shots as a result. NOT happy.

[SamAdams76]

I don't know about snakes but there are two rock stars that were notorious for biting the heads off birds (usually bats or chickens): Alice Cooper from the 1970s and Ozzy Osbourne from the 1980s.

Now many urban myths are involved here too and would have you believe this was a regular staple of their concerts, but in reality they probably only actually did it once or twice. Rest of the time, they were using props.

[Pelham]

Ken Osmond aka “Eddie Haskell” went on to become an LAPD cop.