Celebrities always like to try their hand at music, but though it might seem a good idea (to them) at the time – it often ends in tears – or at least some interesting examples of public humiliation. Here are some of our favourite examples of the rich and famous delivering the poorly executed and infamously terrible. We’ll leave it up to you to judge if its helped or hindered their public persona, but these are the celebs who either through misguidance, misdirection – or simply being out of their depth – produced music that should not have been made.

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