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Lady Gaga has climbed up to number one with her single Bad Romance, displacing Peter Kay's Children In Need song.

Billboard just named James Blunt one of the top one-hit-wonders of the decade. For Seattle listeners, he's a timeless treasure.

THE POGUES song Fairytale of New York which has repeatedly missed out on the number one spot is the all-time Christmas favourite, a survey has shown.

On anniversary of singer's death, her mother abandons bid to bring to justice the man she believes killed her daughter Kirsty Maccoll, who was killed by a speedboat in December 2000.

Band Aid 20's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' is the most successful festive song of the decade, according to the Official Charts Company.

"Rehersals?" chuckles Spider Stacey. "We've not done any yet." With the opening night of a UK tour just days away most bands would be sweating over the finer points of set lists, encores and stage sets.

IT ALL started in the toilets at a punk gig. Here, in the not-so glamorous setting, and while the Ramones blasted a set of New York punk, a young Shane MacGowan met Peter Stacy and Jem Finer.

The campaign seeking justice for the death of singer Kirsty MacColl is to cease its work, it has been announced.

Sick of twee Christmas music? Don't think it's necessarily the most wonderful time of the year? Here are a few entertainingly bleak, cynical or downright odd alternatives.

Band Aid's 2004 version of Do They Know It's Christmas? is the decade's best-selling seasonal song in the UK, according to new figures.

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As the folksy opening of trumpets, tambourines and banjos dies down to let Mumford's soulful vocals rasp , the listener is immediately transported to days of yore; when Rolf Harris and The X Factor were still unimaginable horrors of the future.

JOHNNY DEPP has given British hitmaker BABYBIRD a big boost by insisting the singer/songwriter's 2010 album EX-MANIAC will be the album of the year.

There was also no change at the top of the singles chart with The Official BBC Children in Need Medley by Peter Kay's Animated All Stars sticking at number one.

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Proof that even well-intentioned and useful fads can go too far: the Grow Your Own Vegetables movement has reached a tragi-comic end with the news that Shane MacGowan, the hardest-living poet ever to emerge from the mean streets of Tunbridge Wells, is, well, this ... Shane MacGowan is set to appear in a reality TV programme about growing ...

Caption: Shane MacGowan of The Pogues Madstock Festival 2009 held at Victoria Park London, England .... MACGOWAN BECOMES TV GARDENER Irish folk-rocker SHANE MACGOWAN is embarking on a bizarre new career change - he's hosting his own TV gardening show.

Shane MacGowan is set to appear in a reality TV programme about growing vegetables.

Once again Simon Cowell's talent show behemoth is set to dominate British pop at Christmas.