Most Shocking Concert Moments: Curtis Mayfield Paralyzed




DATE: August 13, 1990

WHAT WENT DOWN: Soul legend Curtis Mayfield was lucky to be alive after his 1990 performance in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The R&B innovator was playing an outdoor concert when stage-lighting equipment fell on him, permanently paralyzing him from the neck down. Mayfield heroically struggled through the tragedy and succeeding in writing, singing on and directing the recording of his final album, 'New World Order,' in 1997.

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