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Smash Hits revived for Michael Jackson special

Teen pop magazine Smash Hits is to be revived for a one-off special to celebrate the life of Michael Jackson, it has been announced.
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British fans will lose out in draw for Michael Jackson memorial

Saturday, 4 July 2009

The clamour for tickets for Michael Jackson's public memorial began last night but the singer's British fans will be disappointed.
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Michael’s death is ‘tragedy’, says Pulp frontman Cocker

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Jarvis Cocker — who infamously stormed the stage while Michael Jackson performed at the Brits — has broken his silence about the star’s death, calling the singer’s musical demise “a tragedy”.
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Quincy Jones shocked at Jackson death

Saturday, 4 July 2009

The record producer behind Michael Jackson’s biggest hits has spoken of his shock at the singer’s premature death.
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Cocker breaks silence over Jackson's death

Friday, 3 July 2009

Jarvis Cocker - who infamously stormed the stage while Michael Jackson performed at the Brits - has broken his silence about the star's death, calling the singer's musical demise "a tragedy".
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Wilco - (Wilco - The Album) (Nonesuch)

Friday, 3 July 2009

You've got to hand it to Jeff Tweedy, Wilco's frontman. When this, their seventh album leaked online about two months ago, Tweedy didn't do what most other musicians of his stature would and complain bitterly in the media about how vile the internet is or bring forward the release date of the album to maximise sales.
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Album Reviews 03/07/09

Friday, 3 July 2009

Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold (Osaka) The 24-year-old Wicklow singer has emerged without fanfare with an album bound to earn a Choice nomination next year.
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Pop/Dance Music 03/07/09

Friday, 3 July 2009

To many, the words ‘mobile disco' conjure up an image of a perma-tanned man in a Transit van, loaded up with a wood-effect twin-deck unit, flashing traffic light-effects and a crate of dog-eared 7” singles, on his way to get the party started with some Shalamar at a hotel wedding reception sometime in the mid-1980s.
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The Wilders

Folk Music 03/07/09

Friday, 3 July 2009

Fresh from whipping up a frenzy at the Open House, Celtic Connections and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, the ‘Hillbilly Hurricane’ that is rootin’-tootin’ Kansas City four-piece, The Wilders, blasts its way to Belfast’s Black Box tonight.
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Sir Willard White

Classical Music 03/07/09

Friday, 3 July 2009

The connection between Ireland and the United States is one which needs little reference but which deserves celebration — especially on the weekend of Independence Day.
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Racist graffiti painted near home of Big Brother star Noirin Kelly

Friday, 3 July 2009

The family of Big Brother's Irish star Noirin Kelly have revealed that her new-found fame has seen them become the focus of cruel racist slurs.
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Voice of an angel: Susan Boyle belts it out on stage

Susan Boyle's got talent, but she's also got a subtle makeover

Friday, 3 July 2009

After Susan Boyle’s successful appearance in Belfast, Showbiz Correspondent Maureen Coleman reports that the troubled star is sounding, and looking, better than ever
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Psychedelic folk rockers Horslips are back

Friday, 3 July 2009

Horslips are Back with a capital B -- and this time round they are doing it in style.
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Susan Boyle

No theatrics, just a spotlight and Susan Boyle’s soaring voice

Thursday, 2 July 2009

The lights in the Odyssey dimmed and a voiceover announced “over 19 million people watched the grand final”, and although the Odyssey holds nowhere near that capacity, the noise from the crowd would suggest otherwise.
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Bono of U2 performs onstage on the first night of their 360 tour held at Camp Nou on June 30, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.

Magnificent U2 thrills Barcelona at Camp Nou

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

The waiting is over, the circus is rolling, and the verdict is: wow. After years of planning and months of preparation and practice, U2 got their 360 tour under way in Barcelona last night and stunned a sell-out crowd at Camp Nou with a spectacular show and a performance that perhaps only they could pull off — intimate despite the vastness of its setting.
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Claw -- the circular stage in Camp Nou, Barcelona

U2 kick off world tour with something Nou

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Irish rockers U2 have revealed they picked a space-age circular stage for their world tour — kicking off spectacularly tonight at Barcelona’s giant 97,500-capacity Camp Nou stadium.
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Brucie bonus: Springsteen breached curfew by  nine minutes

Bruce Springsteen’s late gig at Glastonbury leads to £3,000 fine

Monday, 29 June 2009

Bruce Springsteen cost Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis £3,000 when his set breached a curfew by just nine minutes — but the farmer still declared the festival “the best ever” yesterday.
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The Michael Jackson hit machine keeps on rolling

Monday, 29 June 2009

Michael Jackson topped the album chart and made six new entries in the singles top 40, yesterday, six years after his last number one. His Number Ones album, that features his biggest hits, raced up the charts from 121 to number one.
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Only the music matters for Moby

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Anyone in touch with the music scene during the late Nineties will remember an album that was impossible to avoid.
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Jackson albums dominate sales charts

Friday, 26 June 2009

Michael Jackson's sales have instantly seen a massive boom as a result of his death.
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Jack Penate - Everything is New

Jack Penate - Everything is New (XL Recordings)

Friday, 26 June 2009

It is a phenomenon of sorts that has gone widely unnoticed this year, but a score of British acts — roundly dismissed as landfill indie following over-hyped and ultimately boring identikit music — have come good with their second album.
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