“Yngwie had no stage etiquette. He’d walk in front of me going widdle-widdle-widdle over a verse of a song. It was very rude!”: How legendary rock singer Graham Bonnet was upstaged – and almost strangled – by guitar hero Yngwie Malmsteen

Alcatrazz in 1983.

In the early ’80s, Yngwie Malmsteen was one of the hottest guitar players in the world. But one famous rock singer found the Swedish shredder a little too hot to handle.

Malmsteen was still a relative unknown when he joined the band Alcatrazz in 1983. He was just 19 at the time – a young prodigy who worshipped Ritchie Blackmore and played at twice the speed.