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In the summer of 2003, I was sent the debut single by an unknown Las Vegas band called The Killers. I raved about it in Times Culture. The name of the song? Mr Brightside

It was inevitable, but it's also, it has to be said, very, very well done. First Downfall video of the campaign. vimeo.com/950085130 #BGE2024

A hugely overlooked thing abt The Beatles is how, on the Sgt Pepper sessions, John, seemingly so disaffected and distracted and in some analyses verging on disenchanted by this point, really attacks his backing vocals. He’s right there for them. Doesn’t sound disinterested to me

Imagine if Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris…

RIP Derek Boshier, a key figure in British Pop Art, and the loveliest of men. We had a chat back in 2015. I could have listened to his stories for hours. #DerekBoshier thetimes.com/article/the-mi…

A race to the finish between A Very Royal Scandal and Nightsleeper for worst TV of the year. Shockingly, defiantly, brazenly bad!

It’s 20 years since the singer released his debut album Back to Bedlam. He tells Dan Cairns about the ‘vitriol’ that followed, married life — and why he’ll always feel like a musical outsider ⬇️ thetimes.com/culture/music/…

Over a lunch of squid, guinea fowl, fish & chips and coke - diet for me, full-fat for him - at the posho pub he owns in Chelsea, James Blunt looks back at 20 years of huge success and vicious criticism. Haters gonna hate, but Blunty's had the last laugh thetimes.com/culture/music/…

A Desert Island Disc - non-negotiable open.spotify.com/artist/0OMszNv…

Utterly sublime

Oh, America

Beautiful broadcasting, Derek "Pluto" Murray BBC Radio 4

It’s endlessly baffling that there are people in the world that lack, utterly, the empathy gene

For the hundreds of millions they leech from us, and the many more hundreds of millions their system forces us to spend on them, this is the least Royal Family should have to go through. Get tae fuck

Dancing in the Tax-Funded Moonlight. Wankers. Defund them now