For their 2006 best-of album, 'Stop The Clocks', Oasis created a promotional video for their track 'The Masterplan', one of their most revered songs which originally as a b-side to their 1995 single 'Wonderwall'. In direct homage to famous Manchester artist L.S. Lowery, Noel, Liam and co. became matchstick men in an urban landscape.

The promo to Mark Ronson's cover of Kaiser Chiefs track 'Oh My God' features Lily Allen animated Jessica Rabbit-style. Ronson himself (in non cartoon form) looks on at the cartoon singer.

Radiohead starred in Scott Tenorman Must Die, the 69th episode of South Park screened in July 2001. On the show the band come to South Park to meet Scott Tenorman, a ninth grade kid who Cartman stole pubic hairs from to pretend he had hit puberty. When Radiohead rock up to meet him, Scott (Radiohead number one fan) is crying after being told that his parents are dead. The band exit quickly claiming Scott is the most uncool kid they have ever met.

Sir Elton John, George Michael and Geri Halliwell on spoof British show 2DTV back in 2006. President Bush was another character who was often mimicked on the hit television show.

The late Amy Winehouse as featured in an internet viral game called 'Escape from Rehab' which appeared online in the summer of 2008.

Typically controversial, South Park creators depicted an armed P Diddy chasing the show's characters around and threatening to kill them if they didn't vote for him in a Presidential election.

Metallica appeared as themselves on the September 2006 episode of The Simpsons called 'The Mook, The Chef, The Wife and Her Homer'. While driving the school bus, Otto stops to tow Metallica whose vehicle has broken down, before Bart hijacks it. As the band leave they perform their signature tune 'Master Of Puppets'.

A March 2008 episode of South Park sparked controversy after it depicted the then troubled Britney Spears shooting her brains out.

Blur drafted in artist Julian Opie to draw them in his own distinctive style for the artwork to their 2000 Best Of album. Some have compared it to the cover of Queen's poorly-recieved 1982 disco album 'Hot Space'.

Made by the design company Mini Vegas, Bloc Party were transformed into cartoons on the video to their 2005 single 'Pioneers'.

The Jackson 5 starred in a Saturday morning cartoon, imaginatively titled The Jackson 5ive, from 1971 to 1973. As with The Beatles' Yellow Submarine', the band were unable to lend their own voices to cartoon, so they were impersonated by actors. The did, however, donate their some of their biggest hits to soundtrack the 23 episodes.

Red Hot Chili Peppers' cover of The Ohio Players track 'Love Rollercoaster' was featured on the soundtrack to the 1996 animated movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The band were duly cartoon-ified for the accompanying single promo video.

Perhaps the most famous cartoon band on the list, The Beatles featured in the 1968 movie Yellow Submarine. Apart from the songs, despite their image being used neither John, Paul, Ringo or George contributed their voices to the movie.

Made by Swedish director Magnus Carlsson, the bizarre video to Radiohead's 1997 prog-epic Paranoid Android features a brief cameo appearance from the band. They appear sitting at a bar while a man is table dancing with a head protruding from his stomach. Naturally.

Outkast's Andre 3000 on his own animated comedy, Class of 3000, which was screen on the Cartoon Network from November 2006 to June 2008.