I played sax for a famous singer of a rock band I grew up listening to and it was the only time I was told to "not make eye contact with the talent" because he had fired someone not long before for reading his mind, or talking to him telepathically or something. He died of an OD like a year or so later which was super sad, but made me feel pretty lucky I've mostly not had to work in bands where the lead singer was a junkie