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02.12.12 – Pop Lifer’s Award Advent Calendar: The sitcom-in-waiting which is finally among us

Posted on December 2, 2012 by PopLifer

Welcome to Day 2 of Pop Lifer’s advent calendar format. There is no indecipherable chunk of cheap chocolate behind these links – just 24 definitive moments that have grabbed our attention across pop culture in 2012. Yesterday, we awarded the Lady GaGa Award … Continue reading →

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So this is Christmas… (and time to open up your first advent calendar surprise: 2012’s best pop video)

Posted on December 1, 2012 by PopLifer

“So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over, And a new one just begun.” Happy Xmas (War Is Over), John and Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band Let’s leave aside the addled chronology in this lyric, Lennon’s … Continue reading →

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Ferris, Withnail and two very different days off

Posted on November 30, 2012 by PopLifer

The Bromance might be a recent – and hideous – term but it’s been with us long before Matt Damon and Ben Affleck launched their love upon the world in “Good Will Hunting” or Judd Apatow began forging a career out of the … Continue reading →

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Eric Cantona – the man who turned Gazza’s tears into gold (Picture This #26)

Posted on November 27, 2012 by PopLifer

Two significant things happened at Italia 90 that would change English, and – arguably – world football into the cultural monolith that it has become today. The first was that it was boring. 0-0 draws clogged the world’s wall charts as … Continue reading →

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Take a girl like that – 25 years of “Savage”, Eurythmics’ avant garde masterpiece

Posted on November 25, 2012 by PopLifer

The third in a series where Pop Lifer tests music, film, television etc by the rules laid down in Lupe Fiasco’s “Superstar”: “Did you improve on the design?/ Did you do something new?”. If the answer to either of those … Continue reading →

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A dream of pop – review of “Ummagma” and “Antigravity” by Ummagma

Posted on November 20, 2012 by PopLifer

What’s in a name? When it comes to music scenes, a great deal. In the eighties – while the UK charts were dominated by naggingly catchy, gaudy synth pop – British guitar music was quietly giving birth to something very different. … Continue reading →

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