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Blackstar, and other albums the artist cleverly promoted by dying

DYING is the ultimate music marketing tool, sending sales soaring at the negligible cost of a single life. These artists made out like posthumous bandits.

Yellow by Coldplay, and other songs which justify taking money off a busker

CERTAIN songs are so annoying or inappropriate it’s only fair buskers lose earnings for playing them. Here are some it’s fine to dip into their guitar case for.

Richard Osman to play all roles in adaptation of Richard Osman novel

Slipknot, and six other bands which are now technically dadrock

BACK when nu-metal ruled the world you ruled with it, young and rebellious and your baseball cap backwards. Now you’re a dad and these bands are boring old dadrock.

Taylor Swift's new album about Darren Wetherby, aged 46, of Poynton

'Brilliant, it's a two-hour 31-song double break-up album,' say men with heads in hands

MEN around the world have been plunged into despair after discovering the length and contents of Taylor Swift’s latest album.

A man's guide to reacting to criticism of Sydney Sweeney as if she's your girlfriend

SYDNEY Sweeney has hit out at 'fake female empowerment' in Hollywood in a Vanity Fair interview, after a producer claimed she is ‘not pretty and can’t act’. Here’s how to react like a besotted man.

Hannah Fry, and the other top candidates to be the thinking man's crumpet

RANDY intellectual types – the kind of pricks who call themselves sapiosexuals – are on the lookout for a new muse. These are the top candidates in the line of succession.

Nicola Peltz, and other celebs so talentless going out with them would be a minefield

NICOLA Peltz, heiress and wife of Brooklyn Beckham, also believes she is a talented actor, writer and director. Awkward. If you were the partner of a no-talent celeb, how would you avoid the issue?

America rightly indifferent to Blur