This week just gone

Seven days on No Rock and Roll Fun:

The ten most popular stories this last week have been:
1. Lily Allen with - briefly - no clothes on
2. Britney Spears, naked and crouching - in statue form
3. R Kelly - the underage sex video goes to court
4. Beth Ditto naked if she NMEs
5. Glastonbury. Last weekend, you know.
6. Mr Amy Winehouse and his various doings
7. The turbulent life of Heather Mills
8. RIP Tony Thompson
9. McFly get naked at GAY
10. A nearly naked Mariah Carey on the streets of London

Also this week: Cologne Cathedral turned away Marilyn Manson; Fopp collapsed and closed their stores while other record shops declared war on Prince and HMV announced a slump in profits (but a rise in sales); the Daily Mirror over apologised to Bryan Ferry and The Spice Girls and The Verve announced their comebacks. God help us all.

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Five years ago:
Marilyn Manson was hospitalised after "going too far into the creation process"; record labels tried swamping file-sharing networks with false tracks - that'll show 'em; the Liverpool Lomax embarked on its Napoleon years by opening a branch in Stoke; Channel 5 transmitted its last Pepsi Chart show and promised the replacement, Pop, would be changing the face of Pop TV, Stuart Cable was given a chat show, and MTV dance offered Pong to keep viewers during the adverts, while even Chris Tarrant could see focus groups were killing radio; Adam Ant made one of his court appearances and, with their trademark wit and sophistication, the Gallagher said Brian Molko looked like a cunt.

This week's marketplace stuff:


World Music Awards winner K'naan, troops from New York to Glastonbury via Djibouti


Luckily, Editors have a new album to promote making their Glastonbury trip worthwhile


If you don't like this Ryan Adams album, there will probably be another along in a minute or two


Wonderfully, Amazon suggest that Siobahn Donaghy's Ghosts would be a good partner to Mutya's album, missing the point somewhat


He'll release Glass Spider on DVD, and yet he's ashamed of Laughing Gnome


Volume two of this season will take you up to Mavis Riley meets the League of Gentlemen on the South Bank


Somewhat surprisingly, Peter Cook and Arthur Lowe made this politics-as-PR satire in 2006, according to Amazon