AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson risked the wrath of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin - he accidentally urinated on a Sputnik spacecraft in Moscow. The veteran rockers were invited to play a gig in the country after Yeltsin saw off a coup attempt by hardline members of the Communist Party in 1991.Yeltsin promised young supporters he would stage a rock concert to show his appreciation for their support - but the event almost ended in disgrace when Johnson soiled a prized satellite in storage at the venue.
He says, "We were playing at this big airport in Moscow in Russia when the coup happened, and Yeltsin was on top of a tank and he promised the kids as a thanks for helping - 'What do you want?' And they said 'We want rock and roll, AC DC.' So we went over and there was a million people there, and they had 30,000 armed guards to look after them.
"It was getting dark then and I was bursting for a pee. I went outside and there was this concrete plinth and I'm standing there going [urinating]. And there were these two guards who were really upset. Then the translator came out [to explain] - I had just pissed on a Sputnik! It was just this black ball, I didn't realize what it was."
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