When bands go to war: the best music feuds

As The Black Keys vs Nickelback rages, we look at music's biggest feuds

January 18, 2012 by Michael Baggs | Photo by WENN.com

Rock stars, world famous musicians - they're really not all that different to children in the playground. The only difference being that when an international artist starts slagging off another, we all get to hear about it.

The Black Keys famously, and quite rightly, referred to Nickelback as 'shit' in Janury this year, and have recently 'apologised' for their comments, saying "There's worse bands than Nickelback. Maybe." As apologies go, the band themselves admit, it's one of the worst ever.

Of course, feuding musicians is no new thing. From Biggie and Tupac to Madonna and Elton, check out some of the best music wars of all time.

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The Black Keys vs. Nickelback: At the start of 2012, The Black Keys blamed the death of rock and roll on the likes of Nickelback, and the people who had allowed them to become one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Nickelback then 'thanked' The Black Keys for calling them the biggest band in the world, and recently The Black Keys 'apologised' to Nickelback for the comments. "There's much worse bands than Nickelback. Maybe," said Patrick Carney of the band, "I don't like bad music, but look, I've got a lot of friends and not one of them has a Nickelback record."

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