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The general consensus seems to be that this year’s Brit Awards ceremony was one of the most tedious ever, but musical gong fests aren’t always so flaccid. Here, we celebrate some of the more memorable moments from award shows gone by.

1. Jarvis disses Jacko
In 1996, Michael Jackson hadn’t quite made it all the way to Loonyville, but he was certainly on the trip there. During his Brits performance of Earth Song, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker took umbrage at the erstwhile King Of Pop’s messianic posturing, expressing his displeasure by storming the stage and waving his backside in Jackson’s general direction. Watch closely and you’ll see that a comedic Benny Hill style chase sequence followed, with Cocker being pursued by several members of security.

2. The KLF shock the industry
At the 1992 Brits, best male and female prizes went to Seal and Lisa Stansfield respectively. The cosy dinner party soul ambience was annihilated by the KLF, though, whose metal version of 3AM Eternal (they performed it with UK grindcore punk band Extreme Noise Terror) left the audience stunned. It finished with singer Bill Drummond peppering the crowd with a volley of blank machine gun fire.

Having walked off as winners of the Best Band category – hilariously, they had to share the honour with Simply Red – the KLF proceeded to dump a dead sheep at the aftershow party. You wouldn’t catch Mika doing that.

3. The Synthesizer Medley
Not really a controversial moment, this one, but more than 20 years after it happened, it can still put your jaw on the floor. Herbie Hancock, Howard Jones, Stevie Wonder and Thomas ‘Amadeus’ Dolby indulge in four and a half minutes of preposterous synth wibbling - complete with keytars – at the 1985 Grammys. It set the cause of electronic music back two decades and inspired legions of kids to start playing the guitar.

Apparently, there’s some debate as to whether the medley was live or pre-recorded – the real question should be why it was ever allowed to happen in the first place.

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