In theory, what happens backstage, stays backstage. The combination of easily accessible booze and the illusion of secrecy has led to some of music's most bizarre stories, here are 8 of the weirdest backstage incidents.

We doubt the validity of this claim but earlier this year a man accused his wife on Divorce Court of sleeping with the entire Wu-Tang Clan backstage. "She gave Wu some Tang", the husband claims in a solemn tone. The Clan were stand up gentlemen according to the wife and hung out with her all night. Like they say, Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to F' with, literally.

In Barney Hoskyns' book 'Trampled Under Foot', the writer goes deep and dark into the shady goings on of Led Zeppelin on tour. Recounting one incident when a security guard was beaten up twice by coked up band members. "Plant seemed like the only decent human being there, although there were no innocents. There were no innocents." The 70s were a crazy and messed up time.

One time frequent Hendrix producer Chas Chandler heard Jimi playing the riff for 'Purple Haze' in their flat, after encouragement Hendrix finished writing the rest of the track in the dressing room of a London Uppercut club during the afternoon of December 26, 1966, before a show.

The Rolling Stones had their own private chef for the backstage riders. Lisa Robinson, a travelling journalist, recalled a menu of Spinach Salad, Homemade French bread, Seafood Platter. Lobster, Veal and fresh strawberries. The saddest and weirdest thing was that the band rarely touched the food before a show.

The 1985 backstage for Live Aid must have been mayhem. With that many stars in one area, tensions were high. Freddie Mercury found himself victim to this tension and pointed it in the way of U2 Frontman Bono, as the Irish singer recalls: "Freddie pulled me aside and said, 'Oh, Bono .  .  . Is it Bo-No or Bon-O?' I told him, “It’s Bon-O". I was up against a wall and he put his hand on the wall and was talking to me like he was chatting up a chick."

Bob Dylan and The Beatles met under confused pretences. The folk singer met the band backstage in New York and offered them some marijuana unaware they had never touched the stuff. The Beatles' first experience with the drug was one for the history books, Ringo, not knowing the smoking etiquette, finished the entire joint himself - classic Ringo.

Nirvana have no shortage of backstage destruction stories with torched curtains and smashed lamps galore. However, while waiting for their set on Saturday Night Live, they were approached by an excited Weird Al Yankovic who, especially in the 90s, was considered parody royalty. He asked the band if he could parody them and thus 'Smells Like Nirvana' was born.

Queens of the Stone Age can be trusted with a lot of things, performing medical procedures is not one of them. According to guitarist Troy van Leeuwen, the band performed an operation on a fan after a show: "There was one time when we performed an appendectomy, backstage in Munich. We forgot the anaesthesia. I do know how to perform these operations, but I'd had too much to drink that day. But she's okay."

After an incident backstage at a Manic Street Preachers show in Norwich in April 1992, the music world never forget how 'for real' the band were. During in interview with, at-the-time, NME journalist, Steve Lamacq, Richey Edwards sliced in full block capitals '4 REAL' into his arm when questioned the seriousness towards his art.