The 10: greatest stage invasions

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Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.

1. Jarvis Cocker ... Michael Jackson's messianic Earth Song antics at the 1996 Brits provoked JC into anarchic onstage arse-waggling ... 2. Kanye West ... West ambushed Taylor Swift's speech at last month's Video Music Awards, decreeing that Beyoncé should have won ... 3. Antony Genn ... Pre-the Hours, Genn streaked naked during Elastica's Glastonbury 1995 set, blaming it on "an astronomical sum of drugs" ... 4. T-Pain ... Crashed Jay-Z's performance at 2009's Summer Jam. "I swear I thought he

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Flashback: 13 September 1994

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

Confounding the critics, M People pip the likes of Blur to win the Mercury. Mike Pickering looks back ... "We'd spent that day putting the finishing touches to the follow-up to Elegant Slumming. We got changed at the studio and headed for the Savoy in the mood for a celebration. We had no sense of expectation - we didn't care about winning a prize we knew very little about. In those days it was a much smaller event - each of the nominees had a table for friends and it wasn't the big scrum it has

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Artful dodgers

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Published April 18, 2009 at 7:39 p.m.

Damien Hirst says he learned more from the Beatles than from Picasso - which is why the most famous artist in the world is now applying his alchemy to rock renaissance men the Hours ... When I arrive at the cluster of rustic outbuildings and warehouses that make up Damien Hirst's studios in Gloucestershire, it is dull and cold. I am underdressed. As I introduce myself to someone doing clever things at a computer, I spot a pile of discarded clothes on a sofa. Perhaps I can borrow that parka, I

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