Pop insanity's hall of fame

3. Marilyn Manson
Manson was involved in a 1994 incident involving a young blonde deaf fan and a selection of charcuterie. We refrain from reporting the event in detail.

4. Michael Jackson
"Wacko" had 25 enemies cursed by a voodoo chief called Baba, in a ceremony involving the slaughter of 42 cows. Names on his hate list included Steven Spielberg, because the director refused Jackson a part in the 1990 Peter Pan movie, Hook.

5. Elvis Presley
In the early Seventies the King flew his private jet, The Lisa Marie, from Memphis to Denver to take delivery of his favourite sandwich. Elvis took 22 of the 4,000-calorie Fool's Gold Loaf sandwiches then flew home.

6. Norwegian Heavy Metallers
Count Grishnackh (real name Vark Vikernes), bass player for band The Mayhem, is serving a 21-year sentence for murdering guitarist Euronymous in 1993.

7. Courtney Love
Ms Love enjoyed a photoshoot with a difference in London last year. Decamping from the Lanesborough Hotel at 3am she lay down in the street outside wearing nothing but a pair of knickers and knee-high boots.

8. Suge Knight
The mogul behind hip-hop label Death Row allegedly dangled Vanilla Ice out of a window after a royalties row, and threatened Eazy-E of NWA with a baseball bat.

9. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston
Houston praying openly during a Brown court appearance in August is the latest in a string of incidents involving the pair.

10. Freddie Mercury
It is said he vanished backstage to see a male friend at the end of every show, before returning, refreshed, to sing his encore.