I seem to remember at the Freddie Mercury Memorial benefit or whatever it was called David Bowie during his performance got down on bended knee and recited the Lords Prayer.
Just thinking about it now I can feel myself blushing.
We all make prats of ourselves occasionly but in front of all those people......??

believing himself (even more of) a misunderstood artist.
Now it's his Live Aid vid with Mick that's embarrassing......
(What Freddies zoroastrian family thought may be another question, tho!)

The only thing Bruce ever did that was cringier than the DitD video was this video that popped up on youtube of him rehearsing his moves for said video..

Words fail me..

...he's had more than a couple of cringe-inducing moments over the years, and I'm a huge fan.

The 'Glass Spider' tour is, as popular wisdom suggests, a monumental folly- it's kind of entertaining in spite of that at times (see the terrific version of 'Time') but the 'rap' sections and those painfully staged bits where a 'fan' clambers onto the stage (he was going out with this particular 'fan' at the time, Melissa Hurley her name was!). The world could probably have done without his cover versions of 'God Only Knows' and 'Across The Universe' as well.

Played Tin Machine the other day and I can't really defend that particular whipping boy either- some good songs but hardly his best work, I've heard some suggestions that it was a musical equivalent of a mid-life crisis!

I'm surprised Macca's 'Frog Chorus' song hasn't been nominated yet too, but frankly I'd take even that fluff over the overbearing, tuneless polemic of Lennon's 'Sometime In New York City'- maybe the worst album I ever bought.

I'm a big progressive rock fan but Rick Wakeman's 'King Arthur On Ice' stage-show debacle always gets nominated in these 'most embarassing moments' situations and rightly so- having seen the footage, it IS embarassing.

Johnny Cash being made to wear a Santa Hat on the cover of a Christmas-themed album. James Brown suffered the same indignity I think.