Rollcall of rock hellraisers

LONDON (Reuters) - Rock boasts a long list of hellraisers who have discovered that there is no such thing as bad publicity when you want to shift albums up the charts:

Here, in no particular order, are seven famous examples:

1. Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, was one of the role models in the cult rock spoof film "This Is Spinal Tap", trashing hotel rooms, throwing TV sets out of the window, driving his car into the swimming pool, all while under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He died in 1978 of an overdose of sleeping pills.

2. Ozzy Osbourne won eternal rock fame for biting the head off a bat during one of his shows. He and his family then won more glory as stars of a hit reality TV show -- behaving badly.

3. Jarvis Cocker of Pulp "mooned the moonwalker" -- he burst on stage at the Brit Awards to make obscene gestures while Michael Jackson was performing.

4. Janet Jackson was castigated for her notorious "wardrobe malfunction" when exposing one of her breasts while doing a duet with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl.

5. At the MTV awards in New York, Britney Spears and Madonna kissed on the lips while singing "Like a Virgin".

6. U.S rock icon Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana singer who committed suicide in 1994, topped a Melody Maker magazine as the greatest rock hellraiser of all time because of his drug use and wildly unpredictable behaviour. His widow Courtney Love has carried on the family tradition.

7. The Sex Pistols deserve an honorary mention for Johnny Rotten's swearing live on national TV and the outrageous stage antics of bass player Sid Vicious, who bragged he couldn't play.

Vicious died of a heroin overdose at 21, the morning after he was bailed from jail pending his murder trial for stabbing girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death in a hotel.