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.
Drifting the thread a bit, thay reminds me of this amusing story about Meatloaf, a portion of which reads:
In the early 1970’s, CBS Records’ Clive Davis and Walter Yetnikoff signed Meat Loaf to a contract under the Epic recording label. Due to his popularity, Davis and Yetnikoff took Meat Loaf one day to meet CBS Chairman and CEO William S. Paley.Unless you were a close personal friend of Paley or maybe Frank Stanton, he was always addressed as Mr. Paley or Mr. Chairman, never as “Bill”. CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski did the introductions and as the story goes Jankowski says, “Mr. Chairman, I’d like for you to meet CBS Records’ newest artist….Meat Loaf.” Meat Loaf extended his hand to Paley and says, “Yo Bill!!”
Needless to say that sent shockwaves to Jankowski, Davis, and Yetnikoff. But Paley had been dealing directly with creative talent for over 40 years by that time and CBS Records had been a part of the company since 1937, so he knew how they were. At that moment, Paley just gave a big laugh! And the CBS execs just gave a big sigh of relief! Like most successful media executives then and now, Paley knew that “content is king”.
The part that I always heard and not shown here is that after the "Yo Bill!!!" greeting from Meatloaf, the aging Paley uttered back, "Please to meet you Mr. Loaf".