The Best Brit Award Moments Of All Time

When KLF celebrated their award as best year's band winners in 1992 by opening up on the audience with machine guns it could have been very nasty, but thankfully the playful pop pranksters were only firing blanks. They had initially hatched a plan to throw buckets of blood at the audience, but their lawyers advised against it. I wonder why?

The Education Secretary gets Booed

When Tory Education Secretary Kenneth Baker got booed whilst trying to make a speech in 1989, it may have been something to do with the fact that the cabinet minister was being portrayed week in, week out on Spitting Image as a fat, loathsome slug. What made the booing even funnier was when Cliff Richard got up and made a public apology to the MP on the public's behalf.

Fleetwood and Fox

Ineptitude personified would be a kind way of describing Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox's hosting of the show back in 1989. The chemistry between the giant hard rock drummer and diminutive page three girl could have caused a nuclear reaction. If only you could bottle the elusive magic that made Fleetwood and Fox's first and last TV appearance together such a memorable one, we could all be Ant and Dec for the day.

Ginger Spice's Union Jack dress

Before global fame beckoned and stylists were something they read about in fashion magazines, the Spice Girls took to the Brit stage in 1997 and showed just how badly five young girls could dress if given the opportunity. Ginger Spice's Union Jack dress was truly horrendous, and Posh looked anything but.

Joss Stone Turns American

When Devon lass Joss Stone attended the 2007 event, a nation listened in mock-disbelief as she talked in a terrible and contrived American accent. When host Russell Brand later quipped, "I'm a bit worried about that poor cow." We all nodded our heads sagely.

Adele's one fingered salute

When you're the biggest act to come out of Britain in many a moon, with the world at your feet and an eager audience hanging on your every word, you probably don't expect to have your emotional acceptance speech for album of the year cut short by fat funny man James Corden. Yet, that's exactly what happened to Adele, who reacted in true petulant diva style by flipping the middle finger. Not that anyone cared all that much, we were all too busy enjoying Blur launch into a classic rendition of Girls and Boys.

Madonna's fall from grace

At a Brit award's ceremony, which was slightly less exciting than ironing a difficult shirt or changing an awkward tire, Madonna's embarrassing fall cheered the bored hordes and baying mob up no end.

Like an extra in a Lord of the Rings wizard's convention or an Armani loving bullfighter, Madonna strutted onto the stage wearing a ridiculous long cape and hood ensemble. Yet, with fingers which appeared as nervous as a smoker trying to roll a cigarette after five days of cold turkey, Madonna didn't appear to properly undo the complicated fastening which attached aforesaid clothing to her body. Consequently, when the dancers, who were incidentally dressed as devils, yanked at that there cloak, instead of revealing Madonna in all her 56 years of toned and fat free glory, she was unceremoniously dragged backwards with the cloak like a sack of moldy potatoes.

There was split second of hope where many thought that Madonna's fall would bring a premature end to her unlistenable dirge but ever the professional, Madonna's fall just appeared to make her stronger and she finished "Living For Love" with remarkable aplomb and the stiff, sort of awkward dance moves that have become her trademark.

Instead of finishing the song and making light of the incident by saying, "Ouch, that really hurt!" in the wake of the fall, Madonna chose to take to Instagram and explain that the Armani cloak, which already has its own Twitter account, was "tied too tight," but that she was "fine."

"Armani hooked me up! My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I'm fine!"