A man once said “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” With the proliferation of media on the small screen and now the internet it is increasingly difficult for bands to get noticed based purely off the merits of their music. So where do they turn to get the publicity they so greatly desire? Cheap stunts of course! We countdown some of the wildest of the bunch.

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