30 Famous Rock Musicians That Are Genuine Jerks

30 Famous Rock Musicians That Are Genuine Jerks
Behind every legendary guitar riff and mind-blowing drum solo, there's a musician with a story to tell - and not every story is a good one because the rock and roll world is truly chaotic.
So, buckle up as we show you 30 Famous Rock Musicians That Are Genuine Jerks. You might just be surprised by who made the list!

[@keith8785]

I met John Lennon in Central Park in the spring of 1979. He was walking towards me with Yoko and Sean. I stopped and said John ? He said " Yes I'm John Lennon, and this is my Wife Yoko and my son Sean. " We talked for about fifteen minutes. And I had to ask " Are the Beatles going to get back together ? " John replied " You never know, we might get back together and do something someday. " I walked away thinking to myself, I can't believe it I just met my childhood Hero John Lennon. Seemed like a real nice guy to me.

[@JohnNathanCO]

I encountered Yoko and John at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Did not speak, but he communicated quite effectively. His look said, "Piss off, now we'd like to be left alone." I didn't mind, I guess, although I wish I could say I actually met him!

[@Kim-qn3dj]

@@JohnNathanCO Everybody has good days and Bad day's. The average person couldn't handle being a Rock Star.

[@Kim-qn3dj]

Nice story.

[@HollywoodGoldenAgeYT]

He is genuinely friendly and personable, not being put off by the limelight. This is admirable.

[@paulclarke245]

john lydon should not be on this list

[@DeltaJazzUK]

Of course he should. He's become everything he claimed to hate.

[@JIMJAMSC]

Jon Bon Jovi could easily make this list.

[@user-oh1dw9wi2x]

Billy Joel didnt have the guts to fire his band to their face

[@beckymccomas2644]

No one from Motley Crue on this list? Seriously???!!!???

[@basanistes359]

So many bands but yeah, they deserve to be on this list for sure.

[@natet5959]

Why isn't Phil Spector number one? He was a murderer, right?

[@BookerBird66]

So essentially, having the wrong political opinion makes you a villain? Give me a break,

[@irvingr.fatback886]

One break coming up!

[@user-oh1dw9wi2x]

so if you speak the truth (1st amendment) youre a jerk. i guess its better to look away from reality and be a liar

[@Dilley_G45]

Amazing how raging against the machine became raging for the machine. How rebels became comfortist brownshirts enforcing political correctness

[@sethputnamsghost]

@@irvingr.fatback886Blue eyed murder in a size 5 dress…🤘

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Why do these guys all seem to look like bitter old ladies but Worse!

[@fembotheather3785]

Lydon seems a completely different person from his image. He seems to genuinely care about people, which impressed me when I met him.

[@asmundukkelberg8741]

Ginger Baker and Jerry Lee Lewis should have made this list.

[@user-nv5iq3bp8l]

Exactly why is Lenny Kravitz on this list?

[@sspaay]

Wait a minute. They said precisely nothing about Kravitz as a person (you know a jerk). They just didn't like his work as an artist. Bullshit flag!

[@chrispetritsch1291]

Your reasons for including some of these artists sounded pretty subjective, particularly Lenny Kravitz.

[@vrbixby]

So true. Some are not convincing.

[@Anguirus2012]

Dee Dee was a BASS player in the RAMONES........NOT a drummer, as far as I know.......chump.

[@chuckselvage3157]

Joey was a drummer before he became the singer and Dee Dee was always known as a bass player..he even joined GG Allin briefly on bass but never appeared on an album of theirs or played live.

[@douglasstanley4673]

Exactly, and this shit is a total waste of energy and time. "See you next time?" This guy is killing it, the it being his shitty opinions.

[@Fatherflot64]

How is Jobriath a jerk because his debut album flopped?

[@susanmolnar9606]

Liam Gallagher is the biggest bully I’ve ever met. Noal tries his best to ignore him and carry on which he does very well! Noel is a blast to hang out with!! Great sense of humour.

[@user-rn9bw7jn5o]

What Diana Ross saw in this man I will never know?

[@stephenroberts8964]

That Ozzy bit was absolute bull. That was just an opinion, not a fact, same goes for Lenny Kravitz.

[@Dilley_G45]

Courtney Deserves it

[@southerner4566]

No surprise Lou Reed and John Lennon are on the list

[@DJFredRH]

John Lennon was a Rock Star not a Saint. People act like Lennon was the only guy in the world that ever got divorced. LMFAO

[@southerner4566]

@@DJFredRH And beat up woman, I'm sure other Rock stars did that as well

[@JasonDicks-mn8tt]

I don't like kid rock

[@laurisaarinen1126]

There are many people, even near the top that i really don't feel belong here. Ozzy, John Lydon, Lenny Kravitz and Chad Kroeger really don't seem like bad people. I have not heard much bad about Bob Dylan, John Lennon or Frank Zappa either. Doesn't seem right. But then it's missing people like Gary Glitter, Rick James, Ian Watkins, Dahvie Vanity... Come on now.

[@BigNameFanWeekly]

Morrisey and Simmons are super jerks, but they're both right on certain things. So is Nugent. Lydon and Waters shouldn't be on this list at all.

[@robertdyer8322]

TOO MANY BROAD STROKES!! Okay, about half of this video may be accurate but you included some unforgivable slander! Lars Ulrich is a jerk for fighting people that were stealing artists' music????? Lenny Kravitz is a jerk for being consistant? Who are you quoting calling his music garbage? Can you say the same thing for AC/DC? They are consistant and they still sell out arenas! The remarks made about Bob Dylan in this video are outright lies! Frank Zappa is a jerk for critisizing society? Making it appear like he was more intelligent than everyone else? Maybe he was!!! In any event this video casts too many asperations on innocent and innovative artists for being who they are! Inane and unforgiveable. You guys really hate music don't you?

[@vrbixby]

Excuse me? Love Black Sabbath.

[@flashinthepan3273]

4:45 Morrissey was 💯 correct! And wtf is the problem with speaking the truth in this sick world?

[@darthmartin0076]

What is everyone’s problem with what Roger Waters is saying about Israel? Can people not see what awful things they are doing to Palestine?

[@Johnwick-ed7vo]

Well I normally don't throw hate at people I don't even know, and honestly I don't really look at this as hate, more like fact, and if you want to find out, then just listen to this video again. I'm not saying that this video is even wrong. I don't personally know these folks and don't buy all of their music. However it is well documented on a number of them so that would leave me to believe there is a good chance they are all the way they are. After all they get used to being stars, and people doing things the way they want, tragically this leads to them to loving and hateing the way they are. Strange but often true, they can go either way more, but both are in them at the same time. Now, let's get to this video. I have to wonder, how can a video nameing 30 music artist mean, rude, hateful, and all round full of themselves, any good when you throw your own cheap shots? Are you perfect? I'm not, and as I said I don't know any of these people personally. Yet I know 1 thing for a fact. It is a rare human that can go there entire adult life 18 to their death without getting upset, to down right mad, and when we are mad, things are said and done that you can't take back, you can only hope you are forgiven, but people will always remember. Like I said I fit in there. I would say 90 percent of us do. What is puzzling to me is how often we tend to do the worst to the one's we love??? You can't really make a video of this kind and then hurl name calling at them when they aren't even there to defend themselves. Sure they might see the video and respond, but my point is when making this video they were no where around to say yep I did it and I was wrong or prolong this reputation by saying yep, that's me so what?? I'm sorry but you folks that do these kinds of videos are making money and or a reputation from the same kind of nastiness that you are reporting on. What kind of sence does that make? I realize I am just a faceless nobody, and I am on a small island so to speak with this matter. That's cool, I have not said anything we haven't heard before and also I am quite aware of how drama sells, but when it comes to the price of selling out and loosing your soul, is the payment really worth it? Also I would like to say, this video could be something else if you just did the facts and leave your flavor of hate out of it. It could have been a great video, I was surprised at a few, but they are just like us, weak prone to buckle under pressure and also doing the least and hoping for the most. They just happen to be famous or at least well known in the music world. I'm not saying they should be allowed to think this behavior that is documented is right, but I also will say they are just human like us, and I know all we want sometimes is to have people give us a break and our irritation will subside . Everyone deserves to be passionate, but try to be an adult when dealing with others. That's all, and if I didn't mention it, if we don't know all the facts or right there when things are happening, I would say we can have a personal opinion, but keep it to yourself, and don't judge, I mean heck, let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

[@chrisnoneyabiz4072]

Nice novel

[@michaelclark4043]

Because of his witty sense of humor John Lennon would have made a good comedian too! 😂😅😂😅

[@Bill.Craig-N.Z]

Crikey I've never seen such nonsense in my life. Your claims sound like a 15 year old who has just discovered mummys music collection

[@erikness4231]

Dude, you seem angry. Why so angry, some rockstar scare you?

[@colchesterton]

Ike, only 10!

[@mojoklown7635]

Bono gotta be number 1 , fer sure

[@michaelclark4043]

Back in my teenage years I remember a saying that went, When flower children go to pot they become BLOOMING IDIOTS. Truer words could not be spoken! It's just as true now as it was then, maybe even MORE SO. 😢 😮 😢 😮

[@benjaminA.stantonpun]

This video does not know where it is going. Ted Nugent is a classic rock star. The things he spoke and did are very basic symbols of that genre of music. To say he is a jerk is to hate on Rock And Roll as a whole.

[@DJFredRH]

WRONG ! Back in the 70's Ted was a Rock Star. By the 80's his Music stopped selling. By the 90's Ted was Miserable and bitter and turned into the Conservative Moron that he is today.

[@charlesglaser4868]

@23:01, You have Al Pacino doing his bit, on Phil Spector. Good one. I agree with Uncle Ted!

[@chuckselvage3157]

Pretty accurate list.

[@robertdyer8322]

REALLY? Even the stuff about Zappa, Ulrich, Dylan and Kravitz? How ignorant are you?

[@chuckselvage3157]

@@robertdyer8322 Hey mate i wasn't being serious lol. It was tongue in cheek. C'mon man.

[@jwardbass4452]

27:48 Not Lennon. Impersonator.

[@TP42411]

There are Sex Pistols and U2 impersonators here aswell

[@lilyofthevalley5586]

I agree with you on all of them ; but you forgot another one: Ray Davies. I met that guy years ago in a club in NY and as I passed by I noticed he was there. Casually I said hello and that I loved his music. Well, he went off on me, and I said I regret it all and that he was a horrid creature! Another that I met and even slapped was Till Lindemann! He was a total jerk. Ughh

[@scottdavis2252]

What was the stupid comments on Lenny Kravitz about?

[@AmericanReligion_Band]

So, Lenny is a bad guy for being a solid musician???? Come on, man

[@GormlyKeep]

AI narration: Learn punctuation, not AI: See a speech therapist

[@bodor.o.c.k.s4938]

Genuine ? Lydon ? 😅

[@jcjcviews]

Simmons, and company are more like a circus and a show, having little or nothing to do with a musical "concert."

[@sspaay]

Once again, you didn't like Zappa's point of view. Nothing about him being bad to people, nothing about him being a jerk. I will not be back.

[@VintageTVShows]

Sorry about it

[@charlesglaser4868]

Refuse to wear face masks? Dam staight!! Covid/ Corona, Whatever!! What a Crock!! Don't forget Your Diaper & Your Jab!!😂

[@DJFredRH]

Tell that to the one Million Americans who died from Covid. Grow a Brain.

[@markwalker4485]

You forgot Niel Young and his fish. Worst ever in my mind

[@flashinthepan3273]

LMAO You want to cancel Kid Rock for a "homophobic comment" and refusing to wear a face diaper? 😂😂 I love him for those things!

[@gerardconvie4797]

You are a flash in the pan aren't you ! I don't want to wear a mask, wah wah wah, blah blah blah. My freedom, whatever boy. Patriots my ass! Look🇺🇸 how to properly flag our flag traitors.

[@markbrown7103]

All of those people you say are jerks. Well you’re right on they are. John Lennon was a radical. He even attacked Tommy Smothers and LA at the troubadour one time because they were making jokes about politics. Chuck Berry thought he knew everything about guitar playing. But really he didn’t know anything too much. He couldn’t even read music. Neither could John Lennon or none of the Beatles could read music. You didn’t mention any of my bands and I’m glad you didn’t because I really have some favorite ones. But I know they do wrong too and they’re not perfect. I just love their music I know the Eagles couldn’t get along, always fighting about something I felt sorry for the way Don Felder was treated by Glenn Fry and Don Henley. It wasn’t cool at all. I kinda lost a little bit of respect for them. But I think Joe Walsh is one cool guy. He really made that band ha ha thanks for the video. Have a beautiful day.❤️😄😎🎸👍👍👍 great video thanks❤️😄😎🎸

[@keith8785]

Stop crying and get a Life. How old are you 12 ? You don't have to read music to play Rock and Roll. 🖕

[@DJFredRH]

So because Lennon had the Courage to speak out against the War, he's a Radical. LMFAO

[@Kim-qn3dj]

And you think Don Henley can read Music ?

[@douglasstanley4673]

This sounds like whining.

[@jimking3288]

The stupidest one of these "lists" on the internet !!!

[@dwayneginn3763]

This guy has got to be a liberal. THERE'S NO TEARS IN ROCK.

[@mitchellbaker9434]

This "guy" doesn't exist. Get used to these AI voices narrating these videos.

[@tonycsmith5655]

Conservatives are Miserable and Hate everybody. So I think he's a Conservative.

[@MrJal67]

Gene Simmons is overrated and under talented. As is Nugent.

[@Robert-vs4sm]

I hate Bono,

[@vgshwk]

I would say David gilmour is as much of a jerk as waters.

[@jcjcviews]

Isn't this guy, Liam, a self-proclaimed drunk. Beatles were bad for many reasons, mainly youth, but never committed drunks.

[@DarthEcoli]

Noel ended Oasis just for this very reason. Brother or not, if you don't show for gigs and tank them for being a pisshead, you tend to earn any slagging offs you get. Noel is a cunt, but at least he tells it like it really is and he was the true talent in Oasis, not Liam

[@necropink9200]

Lots of people keep saying Ozzy Osbourne should be knighted. Well pissing on the Alamo, accidentally biting the head off a bat on stage, snorting ants and biting the head off doves are not things deserving of a knighthood. He's supposed to be this icon of heavy metal when outside of Black Sabbath his music and performances are lame. Half his music is shiity ballads and pop songs passed off as heavy metal. The other half are at best hard rock songs rather than heavy metal. Even before his health issues his performances consisted of him shuffling around on stage. I will give credit to him as since his parkinson's he is now great at playing the maracas.

[@terryono-ss8he]

i like ted nugent

[@VintageTVShows]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

[@keith8785]

I like Ted's Music, but the Man is a Total Jerk.

[@SuperFlanders123]

Pretty accurate list.

[@VintageTVShows]

Glad you think so!