of Seventies rock – Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath – had Stonehenge stage sets, but Sabbath’s edges ahead in the ludicrousness stakes, by… well, let bass player Geezer Butler explain: “We had Sharon Osbourne’s dad, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with having the stage set be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour manager. He wrote it down in metres, but meant to write it in feet. The people who made it saw 15m instead of 15ft. It was 45ft high and we just had to leave it in the storage area. It cost a fortune to make, but there was not a building on Earth that you could fit it into.”

6. Embarrassing Airport incident

Actually happened to: Tulisa

Derek Smalls’ decision towear a groin-enhancing tinfoil-wrapped cucumber down his trousers while navigating airport security is surely one of the most gleefully embarrassing moments in modern comedy. Smalls is, of course, caught out, in much the same way former X Factor stalwart Tulisa was in 2012, when the ‘Rampant Rabbit’ in her bag started vibrating during an airline check-in.

7. Endless band name changes

Actually happened to: The Band in The Last Waltz

One of the key inspirations for the documentary style of Spinal Tap was Martin Scorsese’s gushing 1978 film The Last Waltz, which documented the last concert by The Band. In it, among other hilarious interview segments, is a discussion of how they arrived at their name, which is strikingly similar to Tap’s journey from Lovely Lads to The Originals to The