Tuesday 17th April 2012 by Luke Tadgell

Tags: The Beatles

While seeing one of your favourite bands call it a day can be frustrating, it can be even more annoying when they do so without a blazing row of insults, fists and public feuding.

Editors this week said farewell to guitarist Chris Urbanowicz. The band said their farewells over a simple disagreement over the band''s musical direction. It was hardly World War III.

This isn''t always the case. From the Gallagher brothers split to the continual resentment between former Guns N'' Roses frontmen, music history is littered with bad-tempered break-ups.

We''ve charted band break-ups - from the civil to the catastropic, find out which bands came to a crashing end in a blaze of glory or went out with a whimper...