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2012 ➤ A brighter Bluer Rondo for the 20-tweens
❚ TWO VINTAGE MUSICAL GEMS appeared online this week, casting a fresh magic spell. They are two tracks from Chewing the Fat, the debut album by the image dance-band of 80s clubland, Blue Rondo à la...
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1970s ➤ Yowsa! A crackly festive vinyl top ten from Chic, James, Minnie,...
+++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ ❏ iPAD, TABLET & MOBILE USERS PLEASE NOTE — You may see only a tiny selection of items from this wide-ranging website about the 1980s, not chosen by the...
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➤ Barcelona celebrates Adriá, magician of edible art, and a totally useless...
❚ EATING CAN BE THEATRE, just as food can be art. The Catalan chef Ferran Adriá is Houdini and Picasso in one, commonly lauded as the best in the world. His three-Michelin starred restaurant El Bulli,...
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➤ Tyler ‘Timbalike’ simmers from the heart but who can light his fire?
❚ BRITISH POP’S NEXT JUSTIN TIMBALIKE, according to PopJustice, is Tyler James, the slick-suited Mr Fit who amazingly did NOT win The Voice TV talent show last year, despite a brilliant soulful voice...
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2013 ➤ Shock and awe verdicts on Bowie’s born-again masterpiece
+++ ❚ SURPRISE WAS THE SECRET WEAPON. Even the star’s longtime London publicists were told only on Friday. For months there must have been “sudden death” clauses in his 35 collaborators’ contracts to...
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➤ Riddle of the train Bowie could not have taken in Where Are We Now?
❚ THE NEW MUSIC VIDEO for Where Are We Now? raises challenges during David Bowie’s nostalgic Berlin city tour that his fans expect to decipher. Lesser mysteries were quickly cracked this week: 1 – The...
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➤ The world asks, Who is Boy George these days? And he answers
+++ “It did all right, Culture Club, but, you know, move on” – Boy George the ex-singer “Dance music is probably the most exciting it’s been in years” – Boy George the deejay ❏ Feb 20 update: The new...
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➤ Mixes of the moment, Feb into March
♫ More mad dance moves and sexual tension in the video for Man Like Me’s single Sleaze to be released via The Beats / Cartoon Records March 18, from the album Pillow Talk, co-produced by Mike Skinner,...
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2013 ➤ Bowie’s psychodrama The Stars mocks the rockiness of godliness
[Video NSFW] ❚ WHAT A FRISKY, UNSETTLING VIDEO David Bowie has created for this year’s second single, The Stars (Are Out Tonight). It’s hard to tell who’s doing what to whom in this sexy Rocky Horror...
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➤ 26 million hits for 1D’s music movie 4RND
❚ CAN’T RESIST THE “HOME-MOVIE” for this week’s Number One on the UK singles chart, One Direction’s charity mash-up for Red-Nose Day, One Way Or Another which has clocked 26m views at YouTube, despite...
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2013 ➤ Duran’s Rhodes exhumes a 90s art-rock project that anticipated the...
➢ Nick Rhodes will exhibit a collection of original photographic works for sale at The Vinyl Factory Soho, London W1F 7BE, March 8-April 5. The collection, entitled Bei Incubi – translated as Beautiful...
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➤ Who better than PJ to take Timberbloke to task for his new Mirrors video?
♫ Taster of PJ’s verdict on Mirrors: “ We admire the way Justin doesn’t appear until the boring bit, thus ensuring that music channels have to play the entire video when, had he featured in the main...
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➤ Fin Munro plunges into love and takes a walk on the wild side
❚ MORE NEW SOUNDS THIS WEEK from Fin Munro, the London-based deejay, producer, musician and founder of Bad Sex, a “cutting-edge, controversial and entirely hedonistic edgy club night”. Five months ago...
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➤ Glenda Jackson silences Tories in Commons tirade against Thatcher
“ By far the most heinous demonstration of Thatcherism was across the whole country in metropolitan areas where every shop doorway became the bedroom, the living room, the bathroom for the homeless....
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➤ Searching for that last kiss on the third anniversary of McLaren’s death
My lips are open wide Stretched so far apart Searching for that last kiss With my hands pressed tight to my heart A thousand hungry flowers Loving you for hours and hours Soon smothers me so tenderly A...
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➤ 14,000 words on Bowie’s album – responding to Bowie’s own 44 words telling...
❚ AND YOU WON’T STOP READING THEM! A novelist asked David Bowie to explain his comeback album. In his own way, Bowie uttered his first public words on the subject: 44 of them. “Never has an album been...
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➤ Visage: out of the 80s frying pan into the 21st-century fire
❚ THE STUDIO BAND VISAGE were central to defining the electropop sounds of 1980 thanks to the musical nous of Midge Ure, who had bought his first synthesiser in 1978 because he felt synths “embodied a...
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➤ Playlists to keep us foot-tapping into May
➢ Bedazzling music video for the new Basement Jaxx single Back 2 The Wild is directed by Mat Maitland at Big Active & Natalia Stuyk. Salient points at Popjustice: Basement Jaxx are Felix Buxton and...
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➤ Magic! A million views up for Commander Chris sitting in his tin can...
❚ SEE HOW PLANET EARTH IS BLUE! Wow how the stars look very different today, rising in the black void beyond the horizon! Thrill to the International Space Station whizzing above the clouds in a most...
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➤ College egghead out-hamlets Hamlet with mighty movie mash-up
❚ THE MOST QUOTED PLAY in the English language now becomes a YouTube mash-up. Ex-Balliol Oxford graduate Geoff Klock is an assistant prof teaching English at BMCC in New York City who set out to show...
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