12. Les Harvey: May 3rd, 1972
It’s something you learn from a young age. Never touch an electric appliance when wet. Most of us get away with it time after time, because most of the time either we’re grounded to something or the appliance is, so we never even realize the danger. Leslie Harvey probably had the same thought pattern, and was unlucky enough to be one of the few musicians to pay the price for this mistake.
Leslie was performing in a concert at the Forever 27 club in Swansea, England. The rock band was just starting their set in front of a live audience when Leslie grabbed a cold bottle of beer. Immediately after just having wet his hands with the bottle, he grabbed the microphone and promptly received an electric shock that stopped his heart right then and there, dying instantly. Two other performers have been electrocuted, but he’s the only one in history to die from a microphone, and perhaps the only one to die from a single bottle of beer.
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