Liam Gallagher on Bono: “You see pictures of Bono running around LA with his little white legs and a bottle of Volvic and he looks like a fanny.” (Photo: Archive)
Boy George on Elton John: “All that money, and he’s still got hair like a fucking dinner lady.” (Photo: Archive)
Van Morrison on The Beatles: “The Beatles were peripheral. If you had more knowledge about music, it didn’t really mean anything. To me, it was meaningless.” (Photo: Archive)
Faris Badwan on The Enemy: “You’ve got to hand it to these boys. They’re hungry, young and they’ve defied natural selection.” (Photo: Archive)
Morrissey on Brett Anderson: “He’ll never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie.” (Photo: Archive)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Johannes Brahms: “What a giftless bastard.”(Photo: Archive)
Pink on Kanye West: “He’s just a toolbox.” (Photo: Archive)
Keith Richards on Mick Jagger: “Marianne Faithfull had no fun with his tiny todger. I know he’s got an enormous pair of balls, but it doesn’t quite fill the gap.” (Photo: Archive)
Sinead O’Connor on Miley Cyrus: “Please in future say no when you are asked to prostitute yourself. Your body is for you and your boyfriend. It isn’t for every spunk-spewing dirtbag on the net.” (Photo: Archive)
Noel Gallagher on Liam Gallagher: “He’s rude, arrogant, intimidating and lazy. He’s the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.” (Photo: Archive)
Joni Mitchell on Bob Dylan: “Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.” (Photo: Archive)
Morrissey on Bob Geldof: “Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.” (Photo: Archive)
Richey Edwards on The Levellers: “You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.” (Photo: Archive)
Wayne Coyne on Arcade Fire: “They have good tunes, but they’re pricks, so f*** ‘em.” (Photo: Archive)
Paul Weller on Freddie Mercury: “He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a c**t.” (Photo: Archive)
Elton John on Madonna: “She looks like a f***ing fairground stripper.” (Photo: Archive)
Christina Aguilera on Lady Gaga: “I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman.” (Photo: Archive)
Aaron Copland on Ralph Vaughan Williams: “Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” (Photo: Archive)
Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, “What the f*** is this garbage?” And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” (Photo: Archive)
Trent Reznor on Marilyn Manson: “He’ll step on anybody’s face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol rule his life and he’s become a dopey clown.” (Photo: Archive)
Elvis Costello on Morrissey: “Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.” (Photo: Archive)
Noel Gallagher on Howard Donald: “Take That’s Howard Donald said in the documentary that he hears voices at night willing him to fail. To fail at what? You don’t do anything Howard.” (Photo: Archive)
Lily Allen on Cheryl Cole: “Cheryl, if you’re reading this, I may not be as pretty as you, but at least I write and sing my own songs without the aid of Auto-Tune. I must say, taking your clothes off, doing sexy dancing and marrying a rich footballer must be very gratifying, your mother must be so proud”(Photo: Archive)
Moby on Eminem: “He should lighten up. I mean, my mom was a bitch too, but I don’t go writing songs about it.” (Photo: Archive)
Boy George on Madonna: “No redeeming qualities”(Photo: Archive)
David Lee Roth on Elvis Costello: “Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello.” (Photo: Archive)
Axl Rose on Slash: “In a nutshell, personally I consider him a cancer.” (Photo: Archive)
Sir Thomas Beecham on Edward Elgar: “The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station”(Photo: Archive)
Keith Richards on Prince: “An overrated midget.” (Photo: Archive)
Robbie Williams on Noel Gallagher: “He’s a mean-spirited dwarf”(Photo: Archive)
Elton John on Keith Richards: “So pathetic, poor thing. It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.” (Photo: Archive)
Bono on Chris Martin: “A completely dysfunctional character and a cretin.” (Photo: Archive)
Kurt Cobain on Guns N’ Roses: “They’re really talentless people, and they write crap music, and they’re the most popular rock band on the earth right now. I can’t believe it.” (Photo: Archive)
Keith Richards on Elton John: “Writing songs for dead blondes.” (Photo: Archive)
Liam Gallagher on Billie Joe Armstrong: “Fuck right off. I’m not having him. I just don’t like his head.” (Photo: Archive)
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