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Beyonce gets hair caught in concert fan | Beyonce gets hair caught in concert fan |
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Beyonce has soldiered through a concert in Montreal after her hair got tangled in the blades of a fan. | Beyonce has soldiered through a concert in Montreal after her hair got tangled in the blades of a fan. |
The pop star was performing Halo from an audience pit when the incident happened. | The pop star was performing Halo from an audience pit when the incident happened. |
She continued to sing her encore while security guards tried to extract her from the fan, which was mounted on the edge of the stage. | She continued to sing her encore while security guards tried to extract her from the fan, which was mounted on the edge of the stage. |
Several people caught the mishap on video and the singer later joked about it on her social media accounts. | |
She posted a handwritten note on Instagram reworking the lyrics to Halo to include the line: "Gravity can't begin to pull me out of the fan again." | |
The singer's Mrs Carter Show world tour, which began in Belgrade in April, runs until December. | |
Inflatable penguins | |
Beyonce is not the first star to suffer a Spinal Tap moment on stage. | Beyonce is not the first star to suffer a Spinal Tap moment on stage. |
U2 got stuck inside a giant mechanical Lemon during a Norwegian date of their PopMart tour in 1997. | U2 got stuck inside a giant mechanical Lemon during a Norwegian date of their PopMart tour in 1997. |
Fleetwood Mac brought a 70ft (21.3m) inflatable penguin on the road in 1977, intending for it to rise from the back of the stage and fly over the audience. | Fleetwood Mac brought a 70ft (21.3m) inflatable penguin on the road in 1977, intending for it to rise from the back of the stage and fly over the audience. |
"It would never fully inflate - it must have had leaks or something," Lindsey Buckingham later told Rolling Stone . "This thing was limping and floundering at the back of the stage. It never flew." | "It would never fully inflate - it must have had leaks or something," Lindsey Buckingham later told Rolling Stone . "This thing was limping and floundering at the back of the stage. It never flew." |
Mick Fleetwood added: "It was a disaster." | Mick Fleetwood added: "It was a disaster." |
Meanwhile, Ozzy Osbourne came a cropper when a catapult malfunctioned during his 1981 Diary Of A Madman tour. | Meanwhile, Ozzy Osbourne came a cropper when a catapult malfunctioned during his 1981 Diary Of A Madman tour. |
"This catapult was supposed to throw this meat into the audience," he told the magazine. | "This catapult was supposed to throw this meat into the audience," he told the magazine. |
"Well, they'd been trying it out all day, so the elastic wasn't quite as strong during the show. I'm standing there, I put my foot on this lever and several pounds of offal slowly comes and splats on the back of my head." | "Well, they'd been trying it out all day, so the elastic wasn't quite as strong during the show. I'm standing there, I put my foot on this lever and several pounds of offal slowly comes and splats on the back of my head." |
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