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Pop Advent Calendar Day 11: The Wham! Award For Best Christmas Song Ever

Welcome to Day 11 of our pop culture advent calendar! Every day we’ve handed out a little treat in the shape of a mini-blog on something or someone we’ve admired in 2012. Here’s a little bit of an introduction to this … Continue reading

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Pop Advent Calendar Day 10: The Gary Lineker Award for the Best Second Best Player in the History of Football

Welcome to Day 10 of our pop culture advent calendar! Every day we’re handing out a little treat in the shape of a mini-blog on something or someone we’ve admired in 2012. Yesterday we celebrated the art of the political spat, … Continue reading

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Pop advent calendar day 6: The Martin Scorcese Award for Best Beard

Welcome to Day 6 of our pop culture advent calendar. Every day we’re handing out a little treat in the shape of an award or recognition of something big or small in pop which has made 2012 a better place … Continue reading

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

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

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

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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