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As this week’s news hurtles over the net, we sort the aces from the double-faults. The final score … 

 

… Madonna, Shakira, Chris Martin and World Cup 11-minute half-time overload!

 

… how many Stones albums were “the best since Exile On Main Street”?

 

… Kevin Rowland’s heart-breaking songs about Life’s Third Act

 

… 10 good reasons to miss the Nineties

 

… Country & Western is about travelling through the vast geography of America. “Go 200 miles in Britain and you fall off the edge”

 

… Florian Pilkington-Miksa, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond: rock’s real (or invented?) double-barrelled names

 

… how “travel and never arrive” is the new entertainment experience

 

… plus Sly Stone’s Babies Makin’ Babies, the comforting cry of “Gambo’s in the building!” and birthday guest Patrick Butler.

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