Smash hit

To his everlasting credit, he retained his sense of humour, and after several minutes out cold, continued the set, telling the audience: “You can’t take me out,” before adding, “Lets see how well you guys do with my left side.”

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7. Angus Young

He wears a school uniform, but make no mistake, AC/DC's Angus Young won’t be bullied. When an audience member hurled a drink at him during a 2000 concert, he took off his guitar and headed for the audience, grabbing the guy by the nose and twisting it before security hauled him off.

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6. Tim McGraw

Who says chivalry is dead? Earlier this month, country crooner Tim McGraw saw a fan at one of his concerts attacking a woman in the front row, he yelled for security, then, when they responded too slowly, took matters into his own hands. Abandoning the mike, he dragged the man onto the stage, shoved him, then turned him over to security. Pity, Marcus Nirschl said McGraw had the wrong end of the stick: "I was getting shoved up against some empty seats, and I may have pushed some people when I was trying to get my balance... but I didn't hit nobody."

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5. Akon

You won’t enjoy watching this. Not once you know that the girl Akon pulled up on stage and then writhed on top of so very energetically was 15 years old.

The debacle, which quickly earned the descriptive name 'The Dry Humping Incident', occurred in Trinidad last year and resulted in a police investigation, which was later dropped. But perhaps what hurt more than the police probe and the array of vile headlines – ‘Akon apologises over humping teen in Trinidad’ – was that the rapper was the opening act for a Gwen Stefani tour at the time and the key sponsor - Verizon Wireless pulled its $3 million. Um, sorry Gwennie?

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