Archive for July, 2007
News round-up: July 2007
It never rains but it pours. With the UK flooded by wet weather, Rihanna spends an age at Number 1 with a song about umbrellas, while a big global concert tries to tell us how much the world’s climate is changing. As if it wasn’t already obvious. Amy Winehouse can’t make up her mind whether […]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under Monthly news.
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The UK’s longest-running chart-toppers
One of the modern phenomena of our time is the enduring popularity of Umbrella by Rihanna and Jay-Z, possibly the least memorable four minutes ever to appear in a chart rundown. Somehow it has sold more copies than any other track in UK in the past ten weeks. Must be all this rain we’ve been […]
Posted: July 27th, 2007 under Facts + figures.
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Giveaway is no revolution for royal Mail
By ROB JONES
As part of pop’s royal triumvirate, Prince is obliged to pull the occasional bizarre marketing stunt. Alongside floating a giant statue of yourself down the Thames and publishing a book of mucky snaps, the wee feller’s latest move is a little tame, but Michael Jackson and Madonna have never been so foolish as […]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 under Food for thought.
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A lesson in math rock
By ROB JONES
It sounds like something Johnny Ball would listen to when he’s thinking of a number or lunching with Zoë and Norm, but you wouldn’t count on math rock being in a typical algebra teacher’s CD collection.
In fact, if there was ever a musical genre for older folks in tweed jackets to pipe up […]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 under Food for thought.
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