This week just gone

Seven days, including a bank holiday, of course, on No Rock & Roll Fun.

The ten most-read articles, excluding any mention of Heather Mills, McFly or R kelly:

1. Sarah Harding sexy pictures OK, Angelica Bell sexy pictures BAD, rules Daily Mail
2. Fall Out Boy flogs off product placement, selves, arse in video
3. How better to pay tribute to Ian Curtis than by flogging Joy Divsion sneakers?
4. Gary Barlow suggests Robbie William's rehab was a publicity stunt
5. Shakin Stevens lured Matt Lucas to homosexuality
6. Fergie waves lesbian kisses; tabloids fall into line
7. Fans of Jo O'meara still convinced she wasn't a bully
8. Mariah Carey hits cover of Playboy; world unsurprised
9. Aaron Carter lined up for Jacko kiddie fiddle trial [from 2004]
10. Ricky Wilson turns down Diana concert as he 'never met her'

You can read the whole week on one page, or
skim the previous week in one post.

Also this week: George Michael offered to save the world by taking photographs of John Lennon's piano on the scenes of violent deaths; Lady Sovereign was 'exhuasted' and we learned that Elvis used to do Monty Python sketches with "all the voices".

Five years ago this week, Clear Channel were building their empire; the Sugababes called for an end to bootleg mash-ups - after they'd done theres, of course; together at last - Jamiroquai meets Jamie Oliver; and the NME announced plans to abandon the music paper format.

This week, we whored ourselves out by offering these purchase ideas:



Jim, William, and Linda Reid kick off Sister Vanilla with a track about crashing
your car listening to The Pastels - worth buying for that alone,
surely?





Splendid though the remastering of Prefab Sprout's oft-overlooked classic Steve
McQueen is, it's the second disc of Paddy McAloon redoing the entire thing as an
acoustic album that makes this worth buying all over again





Wonderfully, Amazon suggests if you like Fields' new album, you might like a
magazine about hunting animals, too





The record which gave Johnny Marr his first US number one: Modest
Mouse





Low happening: we make Drums & Guns their 8th album





Apparently, we're meant to treat Panda Bear's Person Pitch as some kind of 2007
answer to Smile; it's not, it's a thing of itself





Approach Alison Krauss' collection with caution: contains traces of
Sting





The only Spice Girl, it turns out, who actually loves music - Melanie C turns in
another rummage through the genre dressing-up box





Considering the Beautiful South were about as fashionable as cold sore cream,
god alone knows how they managed enough BBC sessions to fill two
albums





McCulloch's not-so-great solo effort Mysterio boosted by a being teamed up with
his superior Candleland





More Scouse magic: The Wild Swan's work for Sire - singer Paul Simpson described
the band as "like a beautiful, holy, sexy, disturbing, dreamy nightmare about
breaking into heaven to have sex with the angels"





And another example of Liverpool at its best: Dalek, I Love You, packaged up
with b-sides and stuff so rare it's hitherto been protected by men with
rifles





This time last year they were the next big thing; They Came From The Sun should
at least re-ignite the Your Code Name Is: Milo spark