The Brit awards at 30 - The highs and lows

1989: Unsurprisingly, Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood did not make for the best co-hosts in a year of fluffed lines and missed Autocues. The Brits were not broadcast live for quite some time to come ...
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1989: Cliff Richard, seen here holding his award for outstanding contribution to music, apologises after Tory education secretary Kenneth Baker is booed by the audience. This photograph captures the exact moment the awards reached their cultural nadir
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1992: The KLF shoot blanks into the audience during their performance. Later that evening, they dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party with a note reading: "I died for ewe – bon appetite." Well, it certainly beats a Robbie Williams medley
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1996: Michael Jackson performing before Jarvis Cocker's bum interrupts. The police were called after the Pulp singer's stage invasion, with comedian Bob Mortimer stepping in to offer Cocker legal advice. Actually, police were there to charge Jacko's performers with overacting. Just look at the emotion!
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1996: Oasis accept the Brit award for best video from the late Michael Hutchence. Noel Gallagher confronted Hutchence and said: 'Has-beens shouldn't present awards to gonna-be's.' That would explain Bonehead's 'Oh no, he didn't!' expression
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1997: Geri Halliwell in her infamous Union Jack dress. After stealing the show that night, the dress eventually sold for £41,320. Breasts not included
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1998: It might look like John Prescott has been sweating it out in a moshpit, but this was, of course, the moment when a member of Chumbawamba threw a bucket of water over the then deputy prime minister in protest at the treatment of Liverpool dockers
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2000: Brandon Block gabbers to Davina McCall and somewhere in north London, Celebrity Big Brother is born
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2000: Brian McFadden offers all of So Solid Crew out, then has a word with Simon Cowell. And they say he's currently in 'Australia' ...
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2001: Robbie Williams challenges Liam Gallagher to a fight. About as exciting as his facial expression suggests
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2007: Russell Brand is host, receiving an inevitable 300 complaints after jokes regarding British troops and the Queen. Incidentally, we imagine this is what Katy Perry's bedroom looks like
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2007: Devonshire diva Joss Stone commits a crime worse than murder by talking with a fake American accent
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2008: Arctic Monkeys arrive at the Brits dressed as country gents before going on to mockingly thank the Brits Academy in the vein of Kate Nash and Adele
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2008: Vic Reeves with Kelly and Sharon Osbourne. After Reeves stumbles over his lines, Osbourne calls him a 'pisshead'. A jammed Autocue is later blamed for the error
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