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Bob Geldof organises a third Band Aid ensemble. Marilyn and Big Fun don’t make the cut this time round…
On the 20th anniversary of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?, the song’s writers, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, draft in the likes of Robbie Williams, Dido, Chris Martin, Bono and Jamelia to record a […]

By ROB JONES
Twenty-five years ago, in late November 1979, songs by two very different New Jersey groups could be found at either end of the Top 40.
While Dr Hook enjoyed life at Number 1 with the twee country chug of When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman, The Sugarhill Gang, a band who […]

For every ten inoffensive pop stars with nothing to say, there’s one whose foot is almost permanently lodged in their mouth. And sometimes the consequences of a rogue tongue can be catastrophic. ROB JONES replays the ten statements that shocked.
One of the greatest urban myths in music claims that Mariah Carey once said she […]