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➤ Hear a clip from Duran Duran’s new album — lucky No 13?
❚ DURAN DURAN ANNOUNCE THEIR 13th ALBUM, the Mark Ronson-produced, nine-track All You Need Is Now, to be released via iTunes on December 21 and in stores on CD and vinyl in February 2011. Keyboardist...
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➤ The Princess known as Julia becomes an art object for sale
❚ PRINCESS JULIA, deejay, former Blitz Kid and a work of living art in daily life, has now been immortalised in the form of a pair of hand-painted ceramic plates. They are newly created by 27-year-old...
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➤ How Roman Kemp helped his dad Martin to pick up the bass again
Paradise Point in rehearsal, above: Roman, Johnnie, Cameron, Adam ❚ “I’M THRILLED FOR ROMAN’S BAND. It’s one of the most exciting bands I’ve heard for a while. They’ve been rehearsing downstairs in my...
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➤ If Paradise Point aren’t the pop tip for 2011, you decide who is!
❚ HIT ACT, HOT VIDS SHOT BY YOURS TRULY. Here’s the first public sighting of livepop band of the moment Paradise Point, in concert on Friday at Steve Strange’s club-night in Soho. Those crazy Neo...
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➤ This £5m iPhone has to be a spoof! Yes, that’s $7.8m or €6m or 52m Chinese...
❚ PINCH, PUNCH, FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH. You decide: is Stuart Hughes’s YouTube promo (below) the world’s most ludicrous reality TV event? Or what? Blingier than any Essex soap-star could ever be,...
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➤ Live online now, mad hatter Stephen Jones
❚ HERE IS BRITAIN’S LEADING MILLINER, captured within his first hour online creating a unique piece for the ShowStudio shop’s latest exhibition, Florist. The live stream for two hours today amounted to...
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➤ Whatta they like? Essex reality stars shake their vajazzles in the face of...
❚ IN THE SPACE OF TWO MONTHS The Only Way Is Essex has become “totally must-watch TV”, an addiction and an education for anybody who does not live in Essex. The huge county lies along the north bank of...
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2010 ➤ A feast of Bowie-ana served in waffeur-thin slices
❚ DAVID BOWIE HAS BEEN THE SINGLE MOST INFLUENTIAL FORCE IN POPULAR MUSIC SINCE [Fill in the benchmark of your choice, eg:] Mozart/ Schubert/ Marie Lloyd/ Gershwin/ Little Richard/ Sondheim/ Spinal...
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➤ Martin Kemp’s live tutorial via bass cam
❚ SHOT ON TOUR somewhere in Europe last year for Jonny Kline’s video tour diary. Spandau Ballet’s bass player Martin Kemp clamped a camera to his guitar to grab this down-the-neck lesson in fingerwork…...
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2010 ➤ Lady Gaga ousts Lily Allen as UK’s most played artist
❚ LADY GAGA WAS OFFICIALLY the most played artist on UK radio last year. Bad Romance, the first single from her album The Fame Monster, topped the annual airplay chart compiled by music licensing...
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