Rock Venom is an hilarious compendium of catty remarks passed between jealous rock stars over the years, usually in interviews with the ever hawkish music press.
Here's what your favourite pop singers really think about their rivals or what they mutter under their breath when the award goes to the band they hate. Or when they're halfway through the third bottle of wine...
Quotes Include:
• "Oasis are the Spice Girls in drag!" Geri Halliwell, Spice Girls, 1998
• "I've still not learnt to master that Mariah Carey dog-whistle." Lisa Stansfield, 1993
• "If Britney is being called the new Madonna it's all right by me, but there's more to being Madonna than taking your clothes off." Madonna, 2000
• "Prince looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair." Boy George, 1986
• "Marc Bolan isn't camp – he's prissy and fey and engrossed in his own image." David Bowie, 1972
