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A week of No Rock and Roll Fun.

The ten biggest stories this week:

1. Lily Allen changes on a train
2. R Kelly's sex videos - jury will watch
3. McFly strip off their knickers
4. Heather Mills was once in porn
5. Akon dry-humps preteen; Verizon drop Gwen Stefani tour sponsorship
6. KT Tunstall's sexuality. Commented on a few times.
7. Eurovision 2007: Live blog coverage
8. Kerry Katona hasn't made a sex tape
9. Honeyshots chart con fails
10. Amy Lee cans some more of Evanessence

Also this week: Damon Albarn suggests new Kaiser Chiefs album is as poor as early Blur; taking time off from Bible studies, Prince played Koko and got molested; a London gallery started to flog Pete Doherty's blood - enough to get a non-habit forming high from; Ride didn't reform; The Sun grudgingly apologised for invading the privacy of Charlotte Church's womb; Sting's chef won claims for unfair dismissal; Kasabian said they don't get the respect they deserve and three Brighton musicians were among the dead in an M25 crash.

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Five years ago: Almost half a decade to the day before his latest attempt to remake the download market, Peter Gabriel's OD2 attempted to remake the download market with a subscription model. This was in assocation with Freeserve. Who became Wanadoo. And then Orange. MTV had to put The Osbournes on hold as the family demanded more cash for UK transmission; Elton John did a concert at the scene of the German school shooting; Aidan Moffat and Stuart Braithwaite covered Whole Again; Dave Stewart tried to resurrect the Marquee, James Brown launched Jack and Ant and Dec tried to remake The Likely Lads and The Official Chart Company admitted to us that copy-protetced CDs broke the letter, but not the spirit, of chart rules.

Alan Sugar set us the task of selling these items:


Help, She Can't Swim - indie like they used to make


Presumably - three solo albums in - Sia is finding the "vocalist with Zero7" label a little wearying


Not that Elliott Smith is turning from a human tragedy into an industry, or anything: this one is a new album made up of a bunch of rarities


An album by 1997? Has one of the 1990s gone solo, then?


Remastering The Fall is one of those endless tasks, like kissing the Fourth Road Bridge or trying to dissuade Geri Halliwell; they're up to extricate


Possibly the sound of 21st century New Wave, or, according to rateyourmusic, "shit music for top models girlie girl pop"


The Guardian reckons this is the Manics going back to the source; the cover and live promo work suggests it's all self-awareness and no heart


Fountains of Wayne finally deliver a fourth album


Hip-hop's search for unexpected samples finally reaches Supertramp; Gym Class Heroes held responsible


It's a bit of a thin week, as you can tell: but if this is really the Wurzel's Greatest Hits, where's I Shot JR?


Would we be too cynical wondering if the delay in releasing the heftily expensive vinyl edition of Arcade Fire's Neon Bible is a marketing ploy?