Who's the baddest?

Keep rockin', Grandad: Pete Townshend's rock'n'roll antics have topped a poll
Anne Campbell|Metro12 April 2012
The Weekender

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Drugs, booze and sex are rock'n'roll staples but one band beats them all when it comes to outrageous excess.

If you're talking about degeneration, The Who lay waste to such notorious hellraisers as Ozzy Osbourne.

The 1960s rockers came out top in a poll with an impressive history of drug-taking, brawling on stage and, legend has it, driving a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool.

At the centre of the mayhem was Keith Moon, the ferocious drummer whose prodigious talent was matched only by his appetite for hard living.

He once arrived at a tennis match in a tank, dressed as Rommel. He died of an overdose aged 31 in 1978.

The KLF took second place for reputedly burning £1million in cash on a remote Scottish island in the name of modern art.

The men behind the band - Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty - also left a dead sheep outside the Brit Awards in 1992 and shocked the audience by firing machineguns loaded with blanks into the crowd.

Ozzy Osbourne, the former Black Sabbath singer, took third place.

A renowned drug abuser, he was arrested in 1982 in the US after getting drunk and urinating on a memorial to the Alamo in Texas.

He was wearing his wife Sharon's clothes at the time.

That charming man Morrissey makes a surprise appearance in the fourth spot. During a concert with The Smiths, the vegetarian frontman was pelted with sausages while performing the track Meat Is Murder.

The list of ten favourite moments of rock excess was compiled by the BBC digital station 6 Music from listener votes.

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