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Pick at the pops: 17 December 2007

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Disturbing news reaches us that someone has paid £24,000 at auction for a lock of John Lennon’s hair. Now, we’re not ones to start rumours, but could it have been Paul McCartney? 2007 was the year of reunions – could Macca have built himself a cloning device in preparation for the final word in pop reformations in 2008? It can’t be ruled out. However unseemly, it couldn’t be as unsettling as the Jackson Five comeback, pencilled in for Janet’s fiancé Jermaine Dupri’s New Year’s Eve bash. Let’s hope the stage lights aren’t too hot.

Macca himself has been throwing barbed comments the way of his former record label, EMI – also on the receiving end of recent digs from Radiohead. Sir Paul reckons the record execs had become “really very boring” and that the artists had become part of the furniture: “I’d be a couch, Coldplay are an armchair. Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was.” Poor Robbie, not even fit to be called a coffee table these days.

Even poorer Robbie, in fact, because even his former bandmates Take That don’t want to know anymore. After the Robster’s mum was pushing his credentials last week to rejoin the lads, hard-faced Gary Barlow has slammed the door: “I don’t think there’s a place for him now here.” Well, he could be a grammar adviser at the very least, Gaz.

We end our summary of the latest rock’n’roll vagaries with news of Mark Ronson and his girls. The lounge-pop reinterpreter extraordinaire is now friends with Lily Allen again after their terrible falling-out when cheeky Lil’ didn’t show for his Electric Proms do in October. You didn’t know about it? Oh. Well, how about his other partner in crime, Amy Winehouse? The tattooed binge queen has pledged to enter rehab in January to get in shape for February’s Grammys – but she’s going to “throw a party over Christmas” first, according to a “friend”. There’s a girl who sticks to her guns.

Matthew Horton

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