Five years ago today

Bill Wyman sent a cease-and-desist letter to another Bill Wyman demanding he stop using his name;
Was it too soon for Live Forever, a lookback at Britpop?;
The BPI attempted to rewrite Massive Attack's 100th Window as an anti-piracy album;
Radio London dropped most of its specialist music shows;
and we discovered that U2 ensured quality control by telling each other how fabulous they are.