From Dr. Dre to Janet Jackson: These are some of Super Bowl's most memorable half-time shows

Let's face it. Many people tune in to watch the Super Bowl primarily for the advertisements and the half-time entertainment.

It's the biggest stage a performer can grace, attracting audiences from around the world, with domestic viewers in the United States quite often exceeding 100 million.

Here's a look back at some of the most memorable Super Bowl half-time shows, starting with yesterday's extravaganza.

From the moment Dr. Dre appears and fades up the first few bars on his hit The Next Episode, loyalists rejoiced, and all bets were off that this would be a memorable Super Bowl half-time show.

When Snoop Dogg, whose vocals are the first to appear on the track, joins Dr. Dre on stage, he does so by paying tribute to his late mother, who died last year, by having a photograph of the two of them together behind him, next to a blown-up copy of his 1993 album Doggystyle – the first debut album to enter the Billboard 200 charts in the number one spot.

Dr. Dre raps that he's «still not loving police,» a line from Still D.R.E., delivered to a Super Bowl audience in the tens of millions in America alone, up 19 per cent on last year according to Forbes.

Another key moment with deep symbolic significance saw Eminem taking a knee.

Other performers included 50 Cent who showed up announced, and upside down no less mimicking that famous shot from his In Da Club video. The executive producer of a series of shows including the Power Universe with Courtney A. Kemp didn't disappoint. Anderson .Paak also made a guest appearance.

And Kendrick Lamar's energetic performance again lit up the stage.

And of course there was the queen of hip hop soul Mary J. Blige, who raised a generation of women with her music, and plays drug queen pin Monet in the