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How Did Smiley Culture Die? Let’s Blame The Police
HOW did Smiley Culture (aka David Emmanuel) die? Mr Emmanuel died of a single stab wound to the heart during a police raid on his home in Warlingham, Surrey. There’s been a public meeting in Lambeth to hear more about the Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation into the death of reggae singer
Nelson Abbey stirs the emotions with piece in The Voice with the line that “many inferred that foul play may have taken place”.
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In Photos: Biffy Clyro Play The Teenage Cancer Trust
THE Teenage Cancer Trust welcome Biffy Clyro at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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Rebecca Black Causes US To Adopt French Names For Days Of Week
REBECCA Black has six more hits in her before she moves on to months, years, decades, centuries and eons. For now she is happy to make Friday a day you can hate.
Thanks God It’s Friday has mutated into Thank Fuck It’s Not Friday. We will then thanks fuck it’s not Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. (There’s your album right there, Rebecca.) The US will then adopt the French words for days of the week and all will be made whole.
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Rebecca Black To Perform For Rebels In Libya: Gaddafi Pays
REBECCA Black’s dire tune in praise of Friday has been downloaded 2million times.
And not all purchases have been made by Arab despots keen to keep their people off the street by blaring the thing from Tannoys.
Friday is fun, fun, fun. Well, not for you Jewish kids. But for everyone one else it is. It. Is. FUN!
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Jet Harris RIP: Cliff Richard Had A Sex Life
JET Harris RIP. You were born Terence Harris. you were one of The Shadows, Cliff Richards’ backing group. The other claim to fame is that Cliff had an affair with your wife, Carol Costa.
Jet left the band in the early 1960s. Cliff became a pop preacher…
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Rebecca Black Will Now Sing The World’s Most Terrible Pop Song
REBECCA Black sings the world’s most annoying, vacuous, dumb song- ever. I lasted 1 minute and 41 seconds. You..?
Posted: 16th, March 2011 | In: Music | Comments (3)
RIP Smiley Culture: Police Officers Investigated For Dead Reggae Star
RIP British Smiley Culture, aka David Emmanuel. You were 48 when the dirty Babylon knocked on the door of your drum in Warlingham, Surrey.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the death that followed a raid by the Metropolitan Police.
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Justin Bieber Plays London’s 02 With His Flies Undone: Photos
JUSTIN Bieber was at London’s O2 venue. When the countdown clock struck Bieber Time, the Violet Elizabeth Bott and Little Jimmy Osmond love child arrived on stage with his flies undone. Hey, don’t be too harsh. Firstly, he’s a popstar and soon all the cool kids will be doing it. Secondly, “Look, ma, no pull ups!”
He then played an acoustic guitar as he flew in a caged heart. The kidz loved it. Mum and dad wondered why they spent £15 on a programme. Enjoy the photos:
The Asian Music Awards 2011: Getting The Mainstream To Notice
THE UK Asian Music in Photos: Asian music is credible and, vitally for the music biz, saleable. The likes of the excellent Asian Dub Foundation never made it big in the mainstream because the mechanism was not there to promote the acts in the media and secure recordable record sales (much Asian music is still sold in small shops and not recorded in official chart data).
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Britney Spears Is An Airmopped Audrey Hepburn: Photos
BRITNEY Spears is posing seductively for Out Magazine. Before the photos that are less airbrushing than airmopping, Britney says that she was once Audrey Hepburn, in a former life.
Hepburn went to the great tomato in the sky in 1993. Brit was hatched in 1981.
Other than that they are two peas in a pod: one a petite pois, the other a marafat pea ready to be mushed.
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Susan Boyle Has A ‘Wee Box’, Own Teeth And A GSOH
SUSAN Boyle gave Anorak its Photo of 2010. And now she gives us the the best photo of 2011. It’s early in the year but Susan Boyle’s “wee box” will be hard to top.
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Posted: 9th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (10)
Is A Pete Doherty Doppelganger At Work In Germany?
DOES pop fuckwit Peter Doherty have a doppelganger who robbed a record store in Germany. Doherty is in Germany recording a film called “Confession of a child of the Century” (which would make him 11 and below the age of criminal intent.).
Reports from the Bavarian city of Regensburg are that three men were seen breaking into a music store, where they stole a guitar and records, and someone says one of them looked a lot like Doherty.
A German newspaper reports (translation via Google):
Doherty has received a subpoena from the police. In the afternoon, the musicians will be questioned at an undisclosed location to reproach. In addition, said police spokesman Michael Rebele the MDGs, the officials wanted to know from him who he was in the night in question was traveling in Regensburg.
A search of the hotel room on Tuesday evening had brought no further evidence. With a search warrant judicial officials had Doherty’s room in a hotel Regensburg combed through stolen property – without success.
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Waka Flocka Flame Is Peta’s Dumb Animal Of The Month
WAKA Flocka Flame is Pete’s Dumb Animal of The Month. The star of PETA’s “I’d Rather Go Naked” drive is a tattooed rapper with a name like a Australian children’s toy barbecue.
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Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Keisha’s Free Condoms Ensure Her Fans Do Not Breed
WHEN news reached us that John Travolta look-alike Keisha (Ke$ha) was planning to give away 100,000 free condom with an image of her face on to her fans, we set about conducting a poll:
The question was:
“On a scale of one to five – with one being the best and five the worst – what pop star would you most like to see looking back at you when you have closed your eyes and then suddenly opened them during coitus or a spot of onanism?”
The results are:
10: Chris de Burgh
9: Papa Smurf
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Phil Collins Commits To Suicide On A Bike In Switzerland
PHIL Collins says “no one will miss me“. Collins is not committing suicide – although he does live in Switzerland, where the Government is not insensitive to the effects of fierce civic pride on the psyche.
He’s retiring from music. Yep, you thought he bowed out years ago. But Collins tells FHM that he’s now officially out of music and “I don’t think anyone’s going to miss me. I’m much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely…”
Good of to tell us that he irrelevant and unlamented. God speed, Phil:
“I’m a very different person now. I saw some of this show of mine from 1985 and I was on-stage and I never stopped running, never stopped talking. The fact that people got so sick of me wasn’t really my fault. Yes there was a lot of me to dish out – there was me, me and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Phil Bailey, me and Genesis, me and that movie I was in, Buster – there was a lot of stuff. But I only made those records once.”
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Posted: 7th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (2)
Edwyn Collins, Veronica Falls And Glasvegas Rock The CTRL MX: Photos
JAMES Allan of Glasvegas performed during the recording of Topman CTRL MX, in Stoke Newington in north London. So too did Veronica Falls. But the star was Edwyn Collins. Good to see him back.
There’s more to music than Simon Cowell’s pap factory…
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Crimes Against Music, No.1: ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ By Joe Cocker
Crimes against music, no.1: ‘With A Little Help From my Friends’ by Joe Cocker
IN 1968, the world of pop music was beginning to fragment, as ‘serious’ musicians were began to establish a new order. This sea change was symbolised by a single Beatles number: ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ – the ‘Ringo song’ from Sgt Pepper. When Joe Cocker released his cover version, the accompanying ad featured a cartoon Starr with a speech bubble that ran: ‘Hey Joe, don’t make it bad… Take a sad song and make it better.’ The contrast between the dapper drummer, pictured in his Carnaby Street clobber, and the wild-looking Cocker could not have been clearer. It was a graphic illustration of the divergent ‘pop’ and ‘rock’ sensibilities that had now emerged.
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Posted: 4th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (5)
Justin Bieber, Patrick Viera’s Fatter Cousin And Adele Hit London: Photos
JUSTIN Bieber arrived at Heathrow Airport after flying in from Los Angeles. And all round him was his minder, who looks tor all the world like a fat Patrick Viera, the fabled Arsenal and France enforcer now going through the motions at Manchester City.
Also there was North London’s very own Adele, a graduate from BRIT School in Croydon. She had no minders.
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Elton John Feeds Zachary Breast Milk – From A Breast
ELTON John is feeding his son Zachary breast milk. Very possibly from an actual Muslim male breast:
I asked Elton John if he was cloth diapering Zachary. He looked at me a second and then replied “Well, we use proper nappies.“ I knew immediately that had to be a yes, but to be sure that I did not give false information I had him clarify for me what exactly “proper nappies” were. I asked, so are they reusable or do you throw them away. He said “Well they’re proper nappies, cloth”. You know how awesome I thought that was? Celebrities cloth diapering. Wow…Elton John cloth diapers his son!
It get’s better…
After seeing how important this sort of thing was to me, Elton then informed me that Baby Zachary is thriving off of an awesome diet of Breastmilk!
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Posted: 3rd, March 2011 | In: Music | Comments (10)
Phil Lynott Exhibition In Dublin: Photos And Memories
IT’S not long since Gary Moore died. A retrospective on his life is overdue in a TV schedule littered by dross and pap. While we wait for that, we went to see the Phil Lynott exhibition at the Creative Space in St. Stephens Green shopping centre, Dublin. “Still in Love With You”, organised by Hot Press magazine, features the “biggest ever collection of memorabilia, song lyrics, exhibits, paintings, tributes and photographs of the late rock legend”, who died 25 years ago. He died too young. But, then, the best often do.
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A Lonley Hearts ad written by Phil Lynott in 1972 which forms part of a new Exhibition on the life and times of the Thin Lizzy star organised by Hot Press Magazine, entitled "Still in love with you" which opens at the Creative Space in St. Stephens Green shopping centre in Dublin on Friday March 4th. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photio Picture date Tuesday March 1, 2011. Photo credit should read: Niall Carson/PA Wire
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Posted: 1st, March 2011 | In: Music | Comments (3)
Nelly Furtado Donates Gaddafi Concert Money To Sting
COLONEL Muammar Gaddafi and his kids in Libya (or the Caribbean and London – whichever is closer) love a good party. When Mickey Rouke and John Galliano get to play the Libyan dictator in film, they will be able to co-star with the likes of Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Usher, who have all been hired to perform for the family Gaddafi in recent years.
It should be a great show – perhaps the most tortuous musical since Godspell.
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Posted: 1st, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (5)
Rihanna Gave Chris Brown’s Fat Head A Matching Lip: Photo
WHEN Chris Brown assaulted his then lover (wife?) Rihanna, the media went into overdrive. We saw the photos of the singer’s beaten face.
But now, thanks to MediaTakeOut.com, we can see what happened to Brown’s mush in the incident. It wasn’t just knuckle concussion that made the singer hurt.
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Kanye West Does Not Carry Pocket Lint: Tweets Swag At Airport
KANYE West does not carry pocket lint. Kanye West does not carry coins, a snotty tissue, a lucky rabbit’s tail, a condom, a wallet, an empty crisp packet, a fish, a robot lover or a disposable bib.
Kanye West does carry three gold Hecrmès bracelets, a Jesus medallion, a gold charm of a replica football kit, sunglasses and a top-of-the-range belt featuring little choo-choo trains.
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Justin Bieber’s Hair Donated To Petting Zoo: Photos
JUSTIN Bieber’s hair is for sale. Scientists looking to use DNA cloning techniques to replicate the Bieber and export one to every country on Earth to unite humanity in love and hate can bid for the hair on eBay.
Ellen Degeneres placed a cutting in a box. Now she’s auctioning it off on her page. The money will go to an animal welfare charity. Why not donate the hair to the charity as a item for a new petting zoo?
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Britney Spears Home In Photos: Hit Me With The Blackamoors
BRITNEY Spears has lashed out $18.9 million on a mock Tudor mansion in Hidden Hills, California. For her money, Spears owns ten bedrooms, thirteen bathrooms, the Barbra Cartland suite, a amusement arcade, a waterfall, a cave and a blackamoor who will take your Cheetos…
