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Britney loses some excess baggage, careless thing, and Michael Jackson has a shocker at Earl’s Court…
Britney Spears starts digging out that pre-nup after dumping hubby number two by text. Kevin Federline is in the middle of recording a TV interview and is filmed reading the message on his BlackBerry. The pop princess is subsequently spotted […]

John Peel began his radio career in 1960s Dallas as a Beatles expert. On returning to the UK, he ended up on the new Radio 1 pop channel. From there he became famous for his avant-garde, eclectic taste in music, dedicated to airing never-before-heard bands and promoting the far-from-mainstream. A man who walked down the […]

“Alright. So we get in the van, down to the arches and plug our guitars in to see what happens. Dogs are born.” In their own words, London outfit Dogs make their conception sound effortless. Half-hearted even. On stage, however, the post-punk fivepiece personally selected by mod god Paul Weller to support him on his […]

By ROB JONES
If lilo-lipped narcissist Pete Burns can be proud of anything other than being a walking warning against needless cosmetic surgery, it’s that Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) took an unprecedented 15 weeks to reach Number 1 after its release - a statistic still bandied about by nostalgic chart […]

By PAUL HEALEY
The manifold images of Damon Albarn have kept the music-buying public on its toes for over 15 years. Whether it was the faux Manc from the west Pennine town of Colchester, the Mother Brown mockney-knees-up geezer from the Sarf Lahndan borough of Colchester, or more nebulous world music incarnations from Burkina Colchester, Damon […]