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Seven days of No Rock and Roll Fun:

The ten most-fascinating stories according to page views:

1. Watch R Kelly "underage sex" video, court told
2. Beth Ditto gets naked, gets confused
3. Lily Allen changes on a train
4. Angelica Bell - from kids TV to near-naked photos
5. RIP: Tony Thompson
6. A year on, Heather Mills' porn past continues to attract attention
7. Blake Fielder-Civil, Mr. Winehouse, shares a toilet with Pete Doherty
8. Glastonbury 2007: The build up, the fall outs, the Birthday Honours
9. Microdiscussion of KT Tunstall's sexuality
10. Avril Lavigne explains she only looked like she'd got her tits out for Blender

Also this week: Kelly Clarkson canned her tour, citing lack of interest; David Sneddon resurfaced and Dodgy reformed; the bloke who the Stone Roses threw paint over threatened a guy for linking to a site which disagreed with the RIAA; and meeting Beyonce turned out to be a bust.

Five years ago: Bee Wilson's comments on Glastonbury's food ("But it is really about commerce, with all its concomitant lies and disappointments. What the vendors sell you is the 'counter-culture'. What you buy are just commodities") still ring true for the festival as a whole; Ken Barry, who cost 1,500 people their jobs during his time at the head of EMI, picked up six million quid for his efforts; Billy Joel went into rehab; a Moby lookalike was supposedly using his face for sex; Audiogalaxy settled with the RIAA and disappeared while the first lawsuits inspired by copy-proetected CDs hit the courts; and Ed Needham swapped US FHM for Rolling Stone. We thought it would end in tits and tears, and - as Needham wrote in MediaGuardian earlier this month, we weren't far off: "This is a convoluted way of saying I wanted to get sales up, and believed that more commercial covers didn't have to compromise the quality of the writing inside. One of my first covers was a picture of Christina Aguilera on a red sheet, with a guitar arranged artfully over her naked form. The magazine sold well above average, but proprietor Jann Wenner felt we'd tipped the balance too far. No more red backgrounds and no more women dressed in musical instruments, he decreed."

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These were the week's releases:


Tiny Dancers remember the warm, calcium-friendly days before Thatcher


Ghosts' debut album hopes to live up to their hottly-tipped-ness


Tiga's Sexor re-emerges in a collectors' edition, although collectors of what isn't mentioned


... while Calvin Harris is like Harry Enfield doing Tiga


Suzanne Vega. We're struggling a little this week.


A few weeks old now, but demanding your attention: Candie Payne's I Wish I Could Have Loved You More


The highlight of last week's Gideon Coe sessions: Simone White


ShakerMaker Daleks - through a special arrangement, everything you make will have its adventures recorded as canon