Who was in carpool Karaoke Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer joined in with Corden for a bit of air slap-bass, wrestling, nakedness and full-voiced singing on the latest edition of "carpool karaoke."

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The Chili Peppers kept the conversation flowing with stoner talk, rock ‘n’ roll tales (Smith recounted two guys beating each other with their prosthetic legs at a festival in Netherlands) and a fantastical story of a young Cher babysitting Kiedis.

Kiedis, showing no signs of the illness that hospitalized him last month and forced the band to scrap a handful of shows, engaged in some front lawn wrestling with their host. No prizes for guessing the winner. Corden has never hosted such a testosterone-rammed ride.

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And, of course, the hits rang out as the alternative rockers sang “Can’t Stop,” “Give It Away” (with a special dissection of its lewd lyrics), “Californication,” “Under the Bridge,” “The Zephyr Song” and “By The Way.”

Every week on The Late Late Show with James Corden, the Hillingdon-born presenter drives stars around for a chat, purely as a way of showing the American public he can really sing.

Last night was the turn of the Red Hot Chili Peppers – and what followed was a surprisingly entertaining 15 minutes.

Here’s seven things we learned along the way.

Flea knows all the words to Food, Glorious Food from the musical Oliver!.

The first song Flea and Anthony Kiedis wrote together was called Heemi Lheemey. The 15-year-olds were camping in the woods – we say camping, they slept on a rock – and came up with the tongue twister after smoking lots of marijuana. Teens in Britain would just smash up a bus stop really slowly.

Kiedis is a surprisingly agile middle-aged man. Corden offers to wrestle him and is pinned down on a nearby lawn in less than a minute.

The most rock ’n’ roll thing Chad Smith has ever seen was “two guys having a fight with their prosthetic legs” at a festival in Holland. One didn’t even have a shoe on, he adds.

Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer wears three layers of clothes, even in the stifling heat.

Kiedis claims that youthful-looking megastar Cher used to babysit him on occasion when he was 12-years-old. He describes the time he once saw her getting changed through a crack in the door, like a tiny Peeping Tom.

“You’re fans of the old ‘tops off’,” says Corden mid-drive. The band – well, Kiedis and Flea – see this as a cue to whip their T-shirt and little vest off. As they do, Corden joins them in their celebration of half-nudity. So, if you want to see his chap paps flying around in a luxury car to The Zephyr Song, watch the video below…

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George Michael starred in the hilarious Comic Relief sketch alongside James Corden, in what would go on to be the world's first-ever 'Carpool Karaoke' sketch. It was March 2011.

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Why does Anthony Kiedis sing like that?

Now, Kiedis has offered an explanation behind his unusual vocal styling. During an online listening party for the new RHCP album Unlimited Love, which features “Black Summer” as the lead single, Kiedis wrote, “My adopted accent on this one is a tribute to Cate Le Bon,” referring to the Welsh musician.