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Seven days on No Rock and Roll Fun...

The ten most read articles this week:

1. Sarah Harding in her pants is sexy; Angelica Bell in her bra is wrong, says the Mail
2. Heather Mills nude in the present
3. Macca dates Guiness heir
4. Heather Mills nude in the past
5. Gay McFly naked performance
6. R Kelly's sex video to be shown in court
7. Is KT Tunstall a lesbian? Is she interesting?
8. Lily Allen changes on trains
9. Kerry Katona denies appearing in sex tape
10. Video of Britney Spears fooling with strippers?

More interestingly this week, REM announced they'd try their new stuff out in Bono's manor; Puff Daddy flew into a panic because a bloke asked him for a kiss; the Pet Shop Boys cheated death by being asleep; the Sony Radio award shortlist was announced and Brett Anderson released his solo debut.

You can read the whole week on one page or skim the week before in a single post.

Five years ago, arty types were invited to design a Belle & Sebastian cover; calling Bono as a character witness helped Peter Buck of REM get off his air rage charge; copy protection madness led to Celine Dion CDs breaking computers; Megadeath and Deacon Blue split; the great Jennifer Lopez sex video case was dropped following a confidential settlement; Earworm records called it a day and Branson sold half of V2 to a bank. Probably the wrong half.

You don't have to buy these, but you could:


Gorgeous box o'Gedge: Wedding Present Peel Sessions


Brett Anderson goes solo; finally gets to write about love and poison


We've not heard this Hilary Duff album ourselves, but if it's half as interesting at the Guardian suggests ("the best cuts here hold their own against Kylie, though the more apt comparison is Rachel Stevens' fantastic but underperforming solo album") it's worth a listen


We make this the fourth Stiff Little Fingers collection, but none the worse for that


Aptly named Crazy Mixed-Up Kid captures Joe Brown's work at Pye straddling music hall covers and the birth of rock and roll


June Tabor's Apples rewards the investment on the first track, The Dancing, which grew out of a project developing folk songs from the memories of care home residents


A "sexual history" of Michael Jackson - not, we're sure, a work full of half-formed guesses and idle speculation


Brian Eno revisits his 1995 diary. "June 23rd - decided to write my diary as if I was re-editing it ten years hence. Had some toast. Recorded sound of lift doors."


Peter Falk spins anecdotage out into an autobiography


Just in time for Captain jack's return to the motherseries - the last bits of Torchwood hit DVD