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It's a competitive game, the old music biz, and one largely populated by people by paranoid people with large egos. As a result, they frequently fall out and waste no time at all in letting rip at each other via the media. Here are ten jagged insults from one musician to another...

"In a nutshell, I consider him a cancer and better avoided."

Axl Rose's description of Slash doesn't suggest a Guns 'N Roses reunion will be happening any time soon...

"He's so pathetic, poor thing. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go on-stage and look young." Elton John on Keith Richards after the Stone accused him of "writing songs for dead blondes," following Elton's 1997 Diana tribute...

"She is one of the most disgusting human beings in the entire world! She looks like a f---ing drag queen." Kelly Osbourne's summation of Christina Aguilera. Not a fan then, clearly...

"I don't like them because their music is rubbish. I don't like how conceited they are and how seriously they take themselves." Paul Weller puts Sting and Bono in their places...

"He's a mean-spirited dwarf. " Robbie Williams response to Noel Gallagher calling him “the fat dancer from Take That”...

"Kanye West is the biggest piece of s--- on Earth." Pink stands up in defence of Taylor Swift after her 2009 MTV Video Awards acceptance speech was crashed by West, claiming that Beyonce should have won.

"I just think she's a vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities." Boy George wasted no time laying into Madonna in his 2005 autobiography, 'Straight'...

"I think he's a f---ing nipple." Self-proclaimed Beatles but Liam Gallagher has a problem with George Harrison following the guitarist's comment that Oasis were "not very interesting'...

"I think he's a misogynist and a homophobe." Moby doesn't seem to have Eminem at the top of his list of dinner party guests. The rapper responded accordingly, calling Moby a "bald-headed fag."

"If Morrissey says don't eat meat, then I'll eat meat, because I hate Morrissey." The Cure's Robert Smith is clearly not a Smiths fan, then...