Cactus 3:16

You can't beat a bit of Bo Rhap. The weird thing with Queen is that people always say how great they were at Live Aid, but when you compare it to their other performances, they wern't actually as good. I went to see Brian May, Rodger Taylor and Paul Rogers about a year ago. There version of Bohemian Rhapsody was done in a cool way. They played the music and Freddie sung the first bit, then Paul Rodgers did the end bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npYnWWlBZTI It's strange someone else singing it. But it wasn't too bad. EDIT: Freddie sung at the very end mind. They changed the lyrics from "Nothing really matters" to "Nothing really mattered to me".

There's something weird about how the papers keep on mentioning the "horrific anal injuries" the guy suffered. What the hell are "horrific anal injuries"?

I think it'd help if they were a little more objective. In this week's edition, the header for the letters page is "Justin Hawkins - Idiot Nobhead".

In this occasion, some good old Queen will serve you well. More specifically: I Want It All, Hammer To Fall and One Vision.

I buy Q. It seems rather good... but I just get pissed off waiting a month for it. It's definately less snobby than NME. Anybody know of any other decent weeklys? Apart from Kerrang!, 'cos I'm not a big fan of that.

At one point, it seemed to be THE magazine. Never mind the music, it was like... a cultural phenomenom. I reckon it's gone a bit shit now, but it's still the most popular music magazine in England. Personally, I think if they stopped being so obsessive with certain bands (i.e. Arctic Monkeys, Babyshambles) it might be a little better. And for those who buy the magazine - is it always gonna cost £1.95 now or did they just increase the cover-price because of the CD? EDIT: I nearly forgot.. if you think its poo, what music magazine do you buy instead?

From BBCNews.com

Now, I know that some people feel that Pete Doherty is like, THE greatest rock star of 2005, blah, blah blah... and I would agree, I think that most of his stuff with The Libertines is great, and some Babyshambles stuff is great too. But there's one thing that I really don't understand... and that's how he's attracted this big, main-stream media attraction. His arrest the other day made it on to the BBC Six O'Clock news... over some really serious stuff happening in other parts of the world. I can understand the music press being mad on him.. but the main-stram press? I really don't get it.

The crowd are all fucked. Did someone throw an apple at her?

Altough I don't like Vanessa, there's no way a 19-year-old girl should be booed and reduced to tears by a large crowd... and it's even worse because six million people were watching.

Damn. I feel sorry for Kinga. Imagine how shit she must feel now.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds21547.html

16,000? I think you underestimate the current charts. Yes, they are lower than they used to be, but nowhere near that low! I'm just reading that Crazy Frog sold approx. 150,000 copies in its first week to get the number 1 spot. Last I read, it was outselling Coldplay at 4-to-1, so if we go by that, then Speed Of Sound sold 37,500 copies to get to number 2. The fact is that a large number of people are buying it, it's not at number 1 on the basis that you only need to sell a low number of copies to get there. I work in Woolies and their entertainment distributors also service places like Tesco and MVC, and they have stated to us that not enough copies were pressed in time for release (believe me, I could have sold twice as many as I did), and that more were on order to arrive soon. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if this was at number 1 for longer than the 7 weeks that Amarillo was and became the biggest selling single of the year in the process. ←