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Amy Winehouse isn’t well, but she still has a novel line in song writing, it’s a Wonderwall life for Jay-Z at Glasto, Josh Homme loses a fan and Kurt Cobain goes a-wandering…

Amy Winehouse. Remember her? Bit of a drug problem? Yeah, so things are no better this month. Inconceivably while doing “admin work” (does Amy Winehouse do admin?), the Rehab star passes out at home, apparently with lung disease emphysema. It’s as serious as it sounds, says dad Mitch. “Her lungs are all gunked up. Had [the emphysema] gone on for another month, [doctors] painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.” And she has another shocker in store when video footage shot by incarcerated old man Blake Fielder-Civil shows her chanting a racist song. She apologises for the song about “blacks, pakis, gooks, nips and gays” and says she is “the least racist person going”. Oh, that clears that up then… This year’s Glastonbury is, critics would have you believe, one of the most controversial in the festival’s history, with rapper Jay-Z breaking the mould of traditional indie headliners. While the fans don’t seem to mind, Noel Gallagher says it’s “not right”. By reply, Mr Beyonce takes to the stage performing Wonderwall. Elsewhere, Amy Winehouse hits the headlines (surprise, surprise) for elbowing a fan when she heads down the front during her Glastonbury set. The smacked fan, James Gostelow, says he was the unfortunate victim of mistaken identity, having taken the hit on behalf of someone behind him who threw a hat at the singer. But he remains philosophical: “Not everyone can say they’ve been hit by Amy Winehouse.”… Ian Brown is at the wrong end of a body part and gets a stitch to his eye after being pulled off the stage by a fan at a Sheffield gig… He could take a few lessons in crowd control from Josh Homme. The Queens Of The Stone Age singer doesn’t take kindly to a fan throwing an object at him during the band’s set at the Norwegian Wood festival in Oslo. The poorly singer snarled: “I may have a fucking 102 temperature and I’ve been puking for two days, but I’ll still butt-fuck you in front of your friends. Go back to your mum’s house, you 12-year-old miserable dickless turd.” Having also called the fan a “chicken-shit-eating fucking faggot”, Homme later has to defend himself against accusations of homophobia… R Kelly is acquitted of long-running child porn charges. However, although several jury members say they believe he is the bloke in a film urinating on a female, they let him off because they aren’t convinced the girl was his underage goddaughter… Rapper Coolio, who had a hit once, is pulled over by police for a routine stop on Sunset Boulevard and is found to have an outstanding misdemeanour for driving without a licence and bailed at $10,000… Rocker John Lydon upsets Duffy at the Mojo Awards. The former Sex Pistol is alleged to have pushed the Welsh warbler out of a way when she put her arm around him for a photo, although Lydon later claims he has no idea who she is… N.E.R.D.’s Pharrell Williams upsets on a bigger scale. Hardened pop queen Madonna reveals the producer made her blub when he got tough during the recording of her latest album, Hard Candy. He says she cried like a baby after she “kept talking a lot of rubbish” and he shouted at her. “It’s totally weird to make Madonna sob, but even stranger when she tells everyone ‘Pharrell made me cry’.”… George Michael announces a brace of Wembley gigs this August called The Final Two, harking back to Wham’s goodbye gig of 1986, hinting he is about to hang up his stage microphone… The biggest whodunnit? – or rather who’lldoit? – in music continues, with Leona Lewis added to the growing list of possible artists who’ll record the theme tune to forthcoming James Bond flick Quantum Of Solace… Dannii Minogue makes no secret of her delight at Sharon Osbourne’s departure from The X Factor. She describes the show and its new line-up of judges, with Cheryl Cole replacing Osbourne, as “a dream”… Tracks from the near-completed Guns ‘N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy are leaked online… Courtney Love claims that someone has stolen dead hubby Kurt Cobain’s ashes from her LA home… Charlotte Church announces she is pregnant with baby number two and that she plans to have up to four more in the next ten years… There’s good and bad news for the sporadically troubled Britney Spears. Prosecutors close a case alleging the singer ran over a photographer’s foot, saying the accident could only have happened because the injured snapper deliberately put his foot in the way. On the downside, she’s dissed by the Pussycat Dolls, who cut her cameo appearance in their new video from the final version… Chris Martin reveals that a Coldplay track featuring Kylie Minogue has been cut from their new album because “at this point, we cannot be that sexy”. Lunar will appear on the next album – “track nine,” he insists, a little too specifically… Coldplay remain “world’s biggest band” contenders. With Viva La Vida, they become the first British band to top the US Billboard singles chart since the Spice Girls in 1997, and parent album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends also hits the top. Naturally, the album settles in for a long reign at the top of the UK albums chart, while Viva La Vida puts the ghost of Crazy Frog to rest. Their tenth Top 10 hit gives them a first chart-topping single… Usher and Paul Weller each score their third Number 1 album in the UK with Here I Stand and 22 Dreams respectively. But the party is over for Alanis Morrissette as her fifth offering, Flavors Of Entanglement, peaks at a lowly Number 15, while the single, Underneath, gets no higher than 99… Neil Diamond’s tour sees a resurgence in sales, with his latest album, Home Before Dark, returning to the Top 3 and two greatest hits collections elsewhere in the Top 20… Mint Royale unexpectedly find themselves atop the singles chart when download sales of minor 2005 hit Singin’ In The Rain are boosted after Britain’s Got Talent winner, George Sampson, uses it with a dance routine… Guitar legend Bo Diddley dies from heart failure, aged 79. Hugh Jarrett, one of Elvis’s backing singers during the 1950s, dies, aged 78, in Atlanta, a week after a car accident.