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EPISODE 001 THE DARKNESS THE BAND WAS FOUNDED IN 2000 BY

VOCALIST/GUITARIST JUSTIN HAWKINS. VON BONDIES THE DETROIT, MICHIGAN BAND BLEND

GARAGE MUSIC, PUNK AND 60S POP WITH A YOUTHFUL SPIRIT.

TEARS FOR FEARS ONE OF BRITAIN’S BEST LOVED POP/ROCK BANDS FORMED IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES.

THE MUSIC THE UK ROCKERS HAVE COME A LONG WAY SINCE RELEASING THEIR DEBUT ALBUM IN 2002.

MELANIE C THE FORMER SPICE GIRL ENTERED THE UK CHARTS WITH HER SINGLE ‘NEXT BEST SUPERSTAR’.

THE CURE THE BRITISH ALTERNATIVE BAND RELEASED THEIR 13TH STUDIO ALBUM IN 2004.

ROB THOMAS THE MATCHBOX TWENTY FRONTMAN GOES SOLO WITH HIS ALBUM ‘SOMETHING TO BE’.

KASMIR THE DANISH BAND WERE GIVEN A NEW LEASE ON LIFE WITH THEIR ALBUM ‘ZITILITES’.

REGURGITATOR THE AUSTRALIAN ROCK TRIO RECORDED THEIR FIFTH ALBUM INSIDE A BUBBLE.

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EPISODE 002 DUEL THE VIOLIN DUO ARE HEADED FOR FAME

WITH THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM. SIMPLE PLAN THE CANADIAN PUNK-ROCK GROUP

WERE RIDING HIGH WITH THEIR SECOND ALBUM ‘STILL NOT GETTING ANY’.

AVRIL LAVIGNE THE WILD CHILD ROCKER RELEASED HER SECOND ALBUM TWO YEARS AFTER HER FIRST.

KAISER CHIEFS THE BRITISH BAND HAVE BEEN COMPARED TO OTHER HIT BANDS SUCH AS FRANZ FERDINAND.

THE THRILLS THE DUBLIN QUINTET PRODUCED A FOLLOW-UP TO THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘SO MUCH FOR THE CITY’.

MICHAEL BUBLE THE CANADIAN CROONER HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPARED TO FRANK SINATRA AND DEAN MARTIN.

LENNY KRAVITZ AFTER TAKING A TWO-YEAR HIATUS THE ROCK STAR RELEASED HIS ALBUM ‘BAPTISM’ IN 2004.

ATHLETE FORMED IN EARLY 2000, ATHLETE ARE ONE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT BANDS IN THE UK.

VELVET REVOLVER ALL MEMBERS OF THE BAND HAVE HAD SUCCESS WITH OTHER MAJOR BANDS BEFORE FORMING VELVET REVOLVER.

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EPISODE 003 LOST PROPHETS THE WELSH NU-METAL BAND RELEASED

THEIR SECOND ALBUM IN 2004. BIG & RICH THE DUO HIT THE BIG TIME IN 2004 ON

THE COUNTRY MUSIC SCENE. THE CONCRETES THE SCANDINAVIAN BAND BROKE ONTO

THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE IN 2003. CYNDI LAUPER THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE 80S POP STAR

RETURNED TO THE SPOTLIGHT WITH HER ALBUM ‘AT LAST’.

NELLY FURTADO NELLY FURTADO EXPLAINS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND HER ALUBM ‘FOLKLORE’.

SANTANA MUSIC ICON SANTANA RE-TEAMED WITH MICHELLE BRANCH FOR THE SINGLE ‘I’M FEELING YOU’.

SIMPLY RED THE BRITISH BAND WERE BACK ON THE MUSIC SCENE WITH A LATIN INFLUENCED ALBUM.

THE DONNAS THE ALBUM ‘GOLD MEDAL’ SEES THE BAND DEVELOP AS STRONG MUSICIANS AND SONGWRITERS.

THE CLICK FIVE THE BOSTON BOY BAND BURST ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE WITH THEIR HIT SONG ‘JUST THE GIRL’.

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EPISODE 004 MCFLY ROGER DALTREY AND TOP BOY BAND

MCFLY COLLABORATED ON THE CLASSIC SONG ‘MY GENERATION’.

THE BRAVERY THE AMERICAN ELECTRO-ROCK BAND HAD BEEN PROCLAIMED NEW YORK’S OFFICIAL NEXT BIG THING.

THE STROKES A LOOK AT THE SINGLE ’12:51’ FROM THEIR ALBUM ‘ROOM ON FIRE’.

HOTHOUSE FLOWERS THE IRISH POP BAND STARTED OUT BUSKING ON THE STREETS OF DUBLIN IN THE MID 1980S.

NEW ORDER AFTER A FOUR-YEAR ABSENCE THE BRITISH ELECTRO-ROCK GROUP RELEASED THEIR EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM.

JOHN MAYER TRIO THREE TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNER JOHN MAYER FORMED A TRIO IN 2005.

KT TUNSTALL THE SCOTTISH SINGER/SONGWRITER WAS SET FOR STARDOM WITH HER SINGLE ‘OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD’.

DARREN HAYES FOUR YEARS AFTER SPLITTING UP SAVAGE GARDEN RELEASED A GREATEST HITS ALBUM TO CELEBRATE THE TIME THEY SPENT TOGETHER.

GREEN DAY US PUNK/POP BAND GREEN DAY RELEASED THEIR NINTH ALBUM IN 2004 ENTITLED ‘AMERICAN IDIOT’.

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EPISODE 005 FIVE FOR FIGHTING IN 2004 THE ROCK BAND RELEASED THEIR

THIRD ALBUM ‘THE BATTLE FOR EVERYTHING’.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE THE POP SINGER FINISHED HIS 2004 EUROPEAN TOUR WITH SOLD OUT CONCERTS IN MADRID.

IL DIVO 2005 SAW THE CLASSICAL-POP GROUP RELEASE THEIR SECOND ALBUM ENTITLED ‘ANCORA’.

LINKIN PARK THE HARD ROCK HYBRIDS RELEASED A CD/DVD PACKAGE ‘LIVE IN TEXAS’ IN 2003.

KELLY CLARKSON THE SINGER CHANGED INTO A FULLY-FLEDGED ROCK CHICK FOR HER SECOND ALBUM.

KATIE MELUA THE GEORGIAN BORN SINGER FROM BELFAST HIT THE UK CHARTS WITH HER SECOND ALBUM ‘PIECE BY PIECE’.

JAZZY JEFF AND THE FRESH PRINCE

A LOOK AT THE CLASSIC 1993 HIT ‘BOOM! SHAKE THE ROOM’.

BLUE THE LONDON BASED BOY BAND HAVE HAD A STRING OF SUCCESSES SINCE HITTING THE CHARTS IN 2001.

HIM ROCK BAND HIM HAVE PURSUED A QUEST FOR THE REINVENTION OF GOTH ROCK.

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EPISODE 006 SARAH MCLACHLAN THE CANADIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER

WAS BACK IN THE CHARTS IN 2003 WITH HER FIRST STUDIO RELEASE SINCE 1997.

JEM JEM HAS A UNIQUE BLEND OF HIP HOP, ELECTRONICA, FOLK AND CLASSIC 60’S STYLE POP.

RIGHT SAID FRED A LOOK BACK AT THE POP STARS’ HIT ‘LIVING ON A DREAM’.

GEORGE MICHAEL ‘PATIENCE’ WAS THE SINGERS FIRST ALBUM OF NEW MATERIAL IN EIGHT YEARS.

JAMIROQUAI THE BAND HAS CLAIMED NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL AWARDS FOR THEIR UNIQUE SOUNDING MUSIC.

XZIBIT THE RAPPER TURNED REALITY STAR IS KNOWN FOR HIS AGGRESSIVE STRAIGHT-FORWARD MUSIC.

MOTLEY CRUE THE BAD BOYS OF GLAM-METAL WERE BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN 2005 WITH THE RELEASE OF TWO-CD ANTHOLOGY.

LITTLE BOW WOW THE HIP HOP ICON FIRST BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 2000.

LISA MARIE PRESLEY THE DAUGHTER OF ELVIS PRESLEY PROVED SHE IS A TALENTED ARTIST WITH THE RELEASE OF HER SECOND ALBUM IN 2005.

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EPISODE 007 AMY WINEHOUSE THE JAZZ SINGER WAS SHORT-LISTED FOR

TWO AWARDS IN 2004 DESPITE HER NEWCOMER STATUS.

EVANESCENCE THE GOTH ROCKERS HAD A HUGE HIT WITH ‘FALLEN’ IN 2003 WHICH PROMPTED THE RELEASE OF A CD/DVD SET IN 2004.

DESTINY’S CHILD THE SUPER GROUP PERFORMED IN DUBAI AS PART OF THEIR ‘DESTINY FULFILLED TOUR’ IN 2005.

MEATLOAF ROCK STAR MEATLOAF SPOKE ABOUT HIS HEALTH SCARE DURING A CONCERT.

WILLY MASON THE MUSICIAN HAS BEEN COMPARED TO A YOUNG BOB DYLAN.

MIGUEL BOSE A NUMBER OF BROADCASTERS HAVE REFUSED TO SHOW THE SINGER’S CONTROVERSIAL MUSIC VIDEOS.

VAN HALEN PUTTING ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES VAN HALEN REFORMED FOR A CONCERT TOUR.

BRANDY THE ACTRESS AND SINGER CELEBRATED HER FIRST DECADE OF MAKING MUSIC WITH A BEST OF ALBUM RELEASE IN 2005.

QFX A LOOK BACK AT THE DANCE MUSIC GROUP’S HIT SONG ‘YOU GOT THE POWER’.

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EPISODE 008 CHRISTINA AGUILERA THE POP DIVA CO-WROTE AND CO-

PRODUCED HER ALBUM ‘STRIPPED’. LARA ST JOHN THE CLASSICAL VIOLINIST RAISED

EYEBROWS WHEN SHE APPEARED ON A CD COVER WEARING ONLY A VIOLIN.

HANSON THE TRIPLE BROTHER ACT FROM TULSA SHOWCASED THEIR MUSICAL MATURITY.

PRINCE PRINCE OFFERED HIS ALBUM ‘MUSICOLOGY’ TO ALL MAJOR RECORD LABELS.

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS THE LATINO SINGER HAS ACHIEVED A RARE STATUS IN THE US RECORDING INDUSTRY.

JOURNEY THE ROCK GROUP WAS HONOURED WITH A STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME.

SHAGGY A LOOK AT THE REGGAE SINGERS HIT SONG ‘SOMETHING DIFFERENT’.

BIZARRE INC. THE BRITISH ACID-HOUSE OUTFIT STARTED AS A VEHICLE FOR DJ’S ANDREW MEECHAM, DEAN MEREDITH AND CARL TURNER.

STEVIE WONDER THE ALBUM ‘A TIME 2 LOVE’ HAS BEEN A LABOUR OF LOVE FOR THE ARTIST.

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EPISODE 009 CELINE DION THE CANADIAN DIVA IS THE VOICE OF A

MARKETING CAMPAIGN FOR AIR CANADA.

STEVE BROOKSTEIN BROOKSTEIN EXPLODED ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE AFTER WINNING AMERICA’S ‘THE X FACTOR’ IN 2004.

OSCAR D’LEON THE LEGENDARY SALSA KING RELEASED HIS ALBUM ‘ASI SOY’ IN 2004.

BELINDA CARLISLE CARLISLE FIRST HIT THE US CHARTS IN 1986 WITH HER SINGLE ‘MAD ABOUT YOU’.

ISMAEL LO BORN TO A FAMILY OF 18 CHILDREN, THE SENEGALESE GUITARIST IS A CROWD-PLEASER.

KEITH URBAN THE AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY MUSICIAN HAS IMPRESSED US FANS AND CRITICS DYNAMIC PERFORMANCES.

MARIAH CAREY THE POP STAR RELEASED HER DEBUT ALBUM IN 1990.

ANGIE STONE THE SINGER, WRITER, PRODUCER AND ACTRESS COMPLETED HER THIRD ALBUM ‘STONE LOVE’ IN 2004.

BLUR A LOOK AT THE SINGLE ‘CHARMLESS MAN’ FROM THE BRITISH INDIE ROCK BAND.

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EPISODE 010 MARY J BLIGE THE SINGER RECORDED A VERSION OF

ARETHA FRANKLIN’S ‘NATURAL WOMAN’ FOR A US TV SERIES.

KANYE WEST KANYE WEST IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE THE MOST ARTICULATE VOICE ON THE CONTEMPORARY RAP SCENE.

RAY J BRANDY’S YOUNGER BROTHER RELEASED HIS ALBUM ‘RAYDIATION’ AFTER HAVING A FOUR-YEAR BREAK.

THE SIRENS AFTER YEARS OF HARD WORK AND A FEW UNDERGROUND HITS, SIRENS WERE POISED FOR SUCCESS IN 2004.

RONNIE MILSAP THE LEGENDARY COUNTRY SINGER’S ALBUM ‘JUST FOR THRILL’ IS A COVERS ALBUM OF AMERICAN STANDARDS.

PATTI SCIALFA THE SINGER CALLED ON A FEW FAMOUS FRIENDS TO HELP OUT WITH HER ALBUM ‘23RD STREET LULLABY’.

SIMPLE MINDS AFTER 30 YEARS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS THE BAND WAS BACK ON FORM WHEN THEY RELEASE THEIR ALBUM ‘BLACK AND WHITE 050505’.

HAYLEY WESTENERA THE NEW ZEALAND BORN SINGER ROSE TO FAME WITH HER DEBUT ALBUM ‘PURE’.

SMASHING PUMPKINS A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THEIR HITS ‘TONIGHT TONIGHT’.

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EPISODE 011 12 GIRLS BAND ONE OF CHINA’S MOST POPULAR

GROUPS BRINGS A CONTEMPORARY TWIST ON TRADITIONAL MUSIC.

CARLY SIMON THE SINGER/SONGWRITER RELEASED HER ALBUM ‘MOONLIGHT SERENADE’ IN 2005.

ENYA WITH HER TRADEMARK BLEND OF FOLK MELODIES AND CLASSICAL MOTIFS ENYA RETURNED WITH HER EIGHTH ALBUM ‘AMARANTINE’.

PETER CINCOTTI THE SINGER IS ONE OF THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS OF JAZZ PERFORMERS WHO IS SET TO MAKE A BIG IMPRESSION.

WILL YOUNG THE POP IDOL WINNER WAS BACK IN THE CHARTS WITH HIS SINGLE ‘SWITCH IT ON’.

TRAVIS THE SCOTTISH BAND BUSKED ON THE STREETS OF LONDON DURING ONE OF THEIR TOURS.

ANDREA BOCELLI ‘INTIMATE AND SEDUCTIVE’ IS THE FORTH POP ALBUM RELEASE FOR THE OPERA STAR.

MICK HUCKNALL THE LEAD SINGER OF SIMPLY RED RELEASED HIS ALBUM ‘HOME’ IN 2003.

ERIC CLAPTON THE BRITISH ROCK GUITARIST LAUNCHED A CHARITY PROJECT AT THE HARD ROCK CAFÉ IN LONDON.

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EPISODE 012 NANCY SINATRA THE ORIGINAL REBEL CHICK SINGER

COLLABORATED WITH A STRING OF STARS FOR HER SELF-TITLED ALBUM.

DIXIE CHICKS THE COUNTRY ROCK BAND MADE A SPLASH ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS WITH THEIR DOUBLE CD AND LIVE DVD, ‘TOP OF THE WORLD’.

BLOC PARTY THE BRITISH ROCK BAND APPROACH THE MEDIUM OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL WITH HIGH SERIOUSNESS.

TRAIN A LOOK AT THE BAND’S SONG ‘CALLING ON ANGELS’ FROM THEIR ALBUM ‘MY PRIVATE NATION’.

VAN VAN CUBA’S MOST POPULAR SALSA BAND CELEBRATED THEIR 35TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2004.

GARETH GATES THE POP IDOL CONTESTANT OVERCOMES HIS STAMMER WHEN HE’S SINGING.

ELTON JOHN THE SINGER’S 43RD ALBUM WAS RECORDED IN ATLANTA AND IS A GOSPEL-FILLED TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTHERN HERITAGE OF THE UNITED STATES.

DEFINITION OF SOUND A LOOK BACK AT THE LONDON BASED DUO’S SONG ‘PASS THE VIBES’.

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EPISODE 013 JAMIE CULLUM THE JAZZ STAR’S ALBUM

‘TWENTYSOMETHING’ HAS GONE DOUBLE PLATINUM.

ALICIA KEYS THE MULTI-GRAMMY WINNING SONGTRESS SIGNED COPIES OF HER POETRY BOOK IN NEW YORK.

MELANIE BLATT THE FORMER ALL SAINTS SINGER RETURNED TO THE MUSICAL LIMELIGHT WITH HER SOLO SINGLE ‘SEE ME’.

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS THE AMERICAN ROCK BAND PERFORMED TO AN ESTIMATED 100,000 FANS AT A 2004 CONCERT IN LONDON.

MAXI PRIEST AND SHAGGY THE ARTIST’S TEAMED UP FOR THE HIT ‘THAT GIRL’ FROM MAXI’S ALBUM ‘MAN WITH THE FUN’.

THE ROLLING STONES THE ROCK BAND ANNOUNCED THEIR MEGA 2005 TOUR AND AN ALBUM AT A SPECIAL MEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA IN NEW YORK.

TORI AMOS THE ALBUM ‘THE BEEKEEPER’ WAS THE US SINGER’S FIRST NEW RELEASE SINCE 2002.

EUROGROOVE A LOOK BACK AT THE DANCE BAND’S FUNKY 1995 HIT SONG ‘MOVE YOUR BODY’.

STING THE LEAD SINGER OF THE BRITISH BAND THE POLICE BEGAN HIS LUCRATIVE SOLO CAREER IN 1984.

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EPISODE 014 PAUL MCCARTNEY THE FORMER BEATLE RELEASED HIS BOOK

‘PAUL MCCARTNEY ON STAGE, OFF STAGE AND BACK STAGE’ IN 2004.

IDLEWILD THE SCOTTISH ROCKERS ENTERED THE UK ALBUM CHART TOP TEN IN 2005 WITH THEIR ALBUM ‘WARNINGS/PROMISES’.

THE CRANBERRIES A LOOK BACK AT THE HIT SONG SALVATION FROM THE BAND’S 1996 ALBUM ‘TO THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED’.

SHE DAISY SISTERS KRISTYN, KELSI KASSIDY OSBORN MAKE UP THE BAND SHEDAISY.

DAVID TAO THE TAIWANESE R&B SINGER TOOK HIS MUSIC AROUND ASIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2003.

BILLY CORGAN THE FORMER SMASHING PUMPKINS FRONTMAN INTRODUCED HIS SOLO ALBUM TO THE WORLD IN 2005.

BLONDIE A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF BLONDIE’S BIG HITS ‘UNION CITY BLUE 95 REMIX’.

SHAZNAY LEWIS THE EX ALL SAINTS STAR HIT THE CHARTS IN 2004 WITH HER SINGLE ‘NEVER FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE’.

LIVIN’ JOY A LOOK BACK AT THE DANCE GROUP’S HIT SONG ‘DON’T STOP MOVIN’’.

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EPISODE 015 BEASTIE BOYS THE RAP TRIO MADE A WELCOME RETURN

IN 2004 AFTER A SIX YER HIATUS. SUPERLITIO THE FUNKY COLOMBIAN SIX-PIECE GROUP

HAVE MADE WAVES AROUND THE WORLD WITH THEIR MUSIC.

NICK LACHEY NICK LACHEY PURSUED HIS SOLO CAREER WHILE BOY BAND 98 DEGREES TOOK A BREAK FROM RECORDING.

OKEAN ELZY THE UKRAINIAN BAND SOARED TO NEW HEIGHTS WITH THEIR RHYTHMIC AND CATCHY TUNE ‘ALMOST SPRING’.

TINA TURNER THE LEGENDARY DIVA DELIGHTED HER FANS WITH THE RELEASE OF A GREATEST HITS ALBUM.

RUSLANA EUROVISION SONG CONTEST WINNER RUSLANA RELEASED HER SINGLE ‘DANCE WITH THE WOLVES’ IN 2005.

JOE PERRY ROCK STAR JOE PERRY TOOK A BREAK FROM HIS BAND AEROSMITH TO RELEASE A SOLO ALBUM.

JUANES THE LATIN-ROCK SUPERSTAR ATTENDED A CEREMONY CELEBRATING THE SUCCESS OF HIS THRID CD ‘MY BLOOD’.

JANET JACKSON/LUTHER VANDROSS

A LOOK BACK AT THEIR SINGLE ‘BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE’.

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EPISODE 016 CONOR OBERST RECORDING SINCE HE WAS 13 THE

ACOUSTIC MAESTRO’S REPUTATION AS A CHILD PRODIGY HAS ENDURED ENDLESSLY.

JOHN LEGEND JOHN LEGEND HAS WORKED WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN R&B AND HIP HOP.

BIZARRE THE LARGER THAN LIFE D12 MEMBER RELEASED HIS DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘HANNICAP CIRCUS’ IN 2005.

KYLIE MINOGUE THE DIVA HAS HAD NUMBER ONE HITS IN DOZENS OF COUNTRIES DURING THREE CONSECUTIVE DECADES.

JAMES BLUNT THE SINGER SONGWRITER’S SINGLE ‘YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL’ WAS RELEASED IN 2005 TO WIDESPREAD ACCLAIM.

JESSICA SIMPSON THE SINGER AND ACTRESS HAD HIGH HOPES FOR HER ALBUM ‘IN THIS SKIN’.

JOSS STONE JOSS’ DEBUT ALBUM WAS BASED ON FORGOTTEN SOUL CLASSICS.

DEF LEPPARD ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BANDS IN ROCK HISTORY RELEASED THEIR GREATEST HITS ALBUM IN 2005.

THE FUGEES A LOOK AT THE BAND’S HIT ‘NO WOMAN, NO CRY’.

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EPISODE 017 PATRIZIO BUANNE THE SINGING SENSATION SPENT 18

MONTHS RECORDING HIS DEBUT ALBUM WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.

KIMBERLEY LOCKE THE AMERICAN IDOL BRONZE MEDALLIST IS PROVING THAT SHE IS ONE TO WATCH IN THE MUSIC WORLD.

DEEPEST BLUE THE UK DUO PLANNED AN ASSAULT ON THE CHARTS IN 2004 WITH THEIR SINGLE ‘IS IT A SIN?’.

SARAH BRIGHTMAN IN 2004 THE BRITISH SINGING SUPERSTAR RELEASED HER LIVE CONCERT DVD ‘ONE NIGHT IN EDEN’.

DOVES THE POP TRIO WERE BACK ON TRACK IN 2005 WITH THE RELEASE OF THEIR ALBUM ‘SOME CITIES’.

LIONEL RITCHIE A LOOK BACK AT THE POP SINGERS 1996 HIT ‘DON’T WANNA LOSE YOU’.

COLDPLAY FAMED BRITISH BAND COLDPLAY RELEASED THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM ‘X&Y’ IN 2005.

THE NEPTUNES THE NEPTUNES EMERGED IN THE LATE NINETIES AS THE ULTIMATE CRAFTSMEN OF PARTY-THEMED HIP-HOP HITS.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN THE US METAL BAND PLAYED THEIR FIRST MAJOR TOUR OF NORTH AMERICA IN 2005.

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EPISODE 018 DURAN DURAN THE BRITISH POP BAND PERFORMED

SONGS FROM THEIR ALBUM ‘ASTRONAUT’ IN MEXICO CITY IN 2005.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR THE ACTOR DESCRIBES HIS ALBUM ‘THE FUTURIST’ AS “ALT POP”.

MICHAEL JACKSON A LOOK AT THE POP SINGER’S RISE TO FAME.

KELLY OSBOURNE THE ROCK BRAT PROVED THAT SHE HAD THE TALENT TO CARRY HER ALBUM ‘SLEEPING IN THE NOTHING’.

IRON MAIDEN THE BAND PERFORMED IN PARIS AS PART OF THEIR ‘DANCE WITH DEATH’ WORLD TOUR WITH LEAD SINGER BRUCE DICKINSON PILOTING THE AIRCRAFT.

MAROON 5 THE CALIFORNIAN ROCKERS RELEASED THEIR LIVE DVD/CD ‘LIVE AT THE SANTA BARBARA BOWL’ IN 2005.

MIKE & THE MECHANICS A LOOK BACK THE 80’S POP/ROCK BAND’S SINGLE ‘ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE’.

CHANTAL CHAMANDY WITH HER MULTI-CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND PROVOCATIVE STYLE, THE SINGER HAS BEEN DUBBED THE NEW SHAKIRA.

MARC ALMOND A LOOK BACK AT THE ELECTRIC DANCE-POP VOCALIST’S HIT SONG ‘OUT THERE’.

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EPISODE 019 CHEMICAL BROTHERS THE UK DANCE OUTFIT ENTERED THE UK

CHARTS AT NUMBER ONE IN 2005 WITH THEIR SINGLE ‘PUSH THE BUTTON’.

2 UNLIMITED A LOOK BACK AT THE TECHNO/DANCE-POP BAND’S HIT SINGLE ‘GET READY FOR THIS’.

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA THE AUSTRALIAN POP STAR RELEASED HER INFECTIOUS SINGLE ‘SHIVER’ IN 2005.

SHAKIRA THE COLOMBIAN SINGER PREMIERED SONGS FROM HER ALBUM ‘ORAL FIXATION’ AT A CONCERT PROMOTING THE MADRID 2012 OLYMPIC BID.

ESTELLE ONE OF THE LOUDEST VOICES IN UK HIP-HOP, ESTELLE WON THE BEST NEWCOMER AWARD AT THE 2004 MOBO AWARDS.

BURT BACHARACH 26 YEARS IN THE MAKING, THE GRAMMY WINNING COMPOSER RELEASED A SOLO ALBUM IN 2005.

OZZY OSBOURNE THE GODFATHER OF HEAVY METAL RELEASED A 52-TRACK, 4-CD BOX SET SPANNING HIS 25-YEAR CAREER.

ELVIS PRESLEY MILLIONS OF ELVIS FANS WORLDWIDE PAID HOMAGE TO THEIR IDOL ON THE 26TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH.

DAVID ADAMS A LOOK BACK AT THE 80’S ELECTRONIC DANCE HIT ‘I AM A SURVIVOR’.

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EPISODE 020 AEROSMITH THE LEGENDARY ROCKERS RELEASED THEIR

ALBUM ‘HONKIN’ ON BOBO’ IN 2004. EDWINA HAYES THE SINGERS HAUNTING VOCALS AND

BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED SONGS LED TO HUGE ACCLAIM ON THE LONDON ACOUSTIC SCENE.

NO DOUBT A LOOK BACK AT THE POP PUNK BAND’S SINGLE ‘DON’T SPEAK’.

JESSE MCCARTNEY THE TEEN SENSATION’S DEBUT SOLO ALBUM ‘BEAUTIFUL SOUL’ MADE HIM A POPULAR POSTER BOY ALL OVER THE WORLD.

QUEEN A LOOK BACK AT THE ROCK BAND’S SONG ‘LOVE WILL KILL YOU EVERY TIME’.

THALIA AFTER A TWO-YEAR BREAK THE MEXICAN SINGER ACTRESS RELEASED HER SPANISH ALBUM ‘THE SIXTH SENSE’ IN 2005.

U2 VIDEO THE ROCK SUPER GROUP RELEASED THEIR SINGLE ‘ALL BECAUSE OF YOU’ IN NOVEMBER 2005.

FLAMENCO ONE OF THE WORLD’S HIGHLY REGARDED FEMALE FLAMENCO DANCERS WOWED LONDON WITH THE SHOW ‘5 MUJERES 5’.

PET SHOP BOYS A LOOK BACK AT POP/DANCE GROUP’S SONG ‘PANINARO ‘95’.

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EPISODE 021 KENYAN RAPPERS AMERICAN HIP-HOP VETERAN RHA

GODDESS COLLABORATED WITH SOME KENYAN HARDCORE RAPPERS.

FOO FIGHTERS THE US ROCKERS RELEASED THEIR FIRST DOUBLE ALBUM ‘IN YOUR HONOR’ IN 2005.

BRITNEY SPEARS THE SINGER STARS IN THE REALITY SHOW ‘BRITNEY & KEVIN: CHAOTIC’ WITH HER HUSBAND KEVIN FEDERLINE.

CURTIS STIGERS THE SINGER/SAXOPHONIST SILENCED HIS CRITICS AFTER HE CHANGED FROM POP MUSIC TO JAZZ.

MIKE FLOWER POPS A LOOK BACK AT THE BAND’S COVER OF THE DOORS’ HIT ‘LIGHT MY FIRE’.

CRAIG DAVID THE POPULAR R&B STAR RELEASED HIS THIRD ALBUM ‘THE STORY GOES…’ IN 2005.

CLOR THE BRITISH BAND HAVE BEEN CALLED DEVIANT-POP-ART ROCKERS AND INDIE-ELECTRO NEWCOMERS.

STEREOPHONICS THE WELSH ROCKERS HIT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS IN 2005 WITH THEIR SINGLE ‘DAKOTA’.

BRYAN ADAMS THE CANADIAN IS ONE OF THE BUSIEST SINGER-SONGWRITERS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.

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EPISODE 022 BLACK EYED PEAS THE BLACK EYED PEAS’ ALBUM ‘MONKEY

BUSINESS’ IS A CATCHY CROSS-GENRE JOURNEY WITH HIP-HOP, ROCK AND POP.

YING YANG TWINS SOUTH COAST PARTY RAP DUO YING YANG TWINS GAVE SEDUCTION TIPS WITH THEIR SINGLE ‘WAIT (THE WHISPER SONG)’.

FATBOY SLIM NORMAN COOK, AKA FATBOY SLIM, RELEASED HIS ALBUM ‘PALOOKAVILLE’ IN 2004.

JULIETTE LEWIS THE ACTRESS PUT HER ACTING TO ONE SIDE TO PURSUE HER PASSION FOR ROCK ‘N ROLL BY FORMING A BAND IN 2003.

MARK KNOPFLER BEST KNOWN AS THE FOUNDER AND LEAD GUITARIST FOR ROCK BAND DIRE STRAITS, MARK KNOPFLER IS ALSO A SUCCESSFUL SOLO ARTIST.

HEATHER SMALL THE M PEOPLE SINGER’S SOLO SINGLE ‘PROUD’ IS THE OFFICIAL SONG FOR THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS.

FAITH HILL ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST DISTINCTIVE COUNTRY SINGERS, FAITH HILL RELEASED HER LONG ANTICIPATED SIXTH ALBUM ‘FIREFLIES’ IN 2005.

STEVEN PAGE THE BARENAKED LADIES LEAD SINGER RELEASED A SELF-TITLED ALBUM CALLED ‘THE VANITY PROJECT’ IN 2005.

ROXETTE A LOOK BACK AT THE SWEDISH POP GROUP’S HIT SONG ‘THE LOOK’.

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EPISODE 023 3 OF A KIND THE TRIO COMBINED HARMONIES AND

CATCHY INSTRUMENTALS ON THEIR SUMMER-SOAKED UP-TEMPTO SINGLE ‘BABYCAKES’.

OUTL4W FANS OF THE PUNK-ROCKING KIDS GOT THE CHANCE TO SEE THEM PERFORM THEIR TRACK ‘SUMMER OF ROCK & ROLL’ AT LONDON’S VIRGIN MEGA STORE.

JANET JACKSON A LOOK AT THE VIDEO FOR THE SINGER’S SINGLE ‘I WANT YOU’ FROM HER ALBUM ‘DAMITA JO’.

HERBIE HANCOCK THE JAZZ MAESTRO UPPED THE CROSSOVER ANTE WITH HIS ALBUM ‘POSSIBILITIES’.

B5 THE POP AND SOUL VOCAL GROUP SCORED A TOP 20 HIT WITH THEIR 2005 ALBUM.

N.E.R.D. SUPER-PRODUCERS THE NEPTUNES RELEASED THEIR SECOND ALBUM IN 2004 UNDER THEIR BAND NAME N.E.R.D.

RICKY MARTIN THE LATINO HEART-THROB SHIMMIED BACK ON TO THE WORLD MUSIC SCENE WITH HIS FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ALBUM SINCE 2000.

THE CALLING THE CALIFORNIAN ROCK QUINTET TRAVELLED AROUND THE WORLD IN 2004 TO PROMOTE THEIR ALBUM ‘TWO’.

THE BEATLES A LOOK BACK AT THE MOST POPULAR AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK GROUP’S SONG ‘REAL LOVE’.

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EPISODE 024 KANYE WEST THE GRAMMY WINNING HIP HOP

INNOVATOR KICKED OFF HIS 2005 AMERICAN TOUR MIAMI IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS OF EXCITED FANS.

SKIN SKIN’S SECOND SOLO ALBUM ‘FAKE CHEMICAL STATE’ IS AS DEFIANT AS THE FIRST ONE.

MARC ANTHONY MARC ANTHONY, CHAYANNE AND ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ TEAMED UP TO COME UP WITH THE HOTTEST LATIN-CONCERT TICKET OF THE SEASON.

AUDIOSLAVE AUDIOSLAVE WAS THE FIRST US ROCK BAND TO GIVE AN OPEN-AIR CONCERT IN COMMUNIST CUBA.

STEPHEN FRETWELL FRETWELL’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM ‘MAGPIE’ WENT GOLD AND MADE HIM ONE OF THE UK’S MOST IMPORTANT ARTISTS.

ACE OF BASE A LOOK BACK AT THE SWEDISH POP GROUP’S 1996 SINGLE ‘NEVER GOING TO SAY I’M SORRY’.

EMMANUEL JAL THE FORMER CHILD SOLDIER IN SUDAN AND STAR OF AFRICAN RAP DAZZLED HIS AUDIENCE WITH A PERFORMANCE OF UPBEAT AFRICAN TUNES.

WESTLIFE ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR BOY BANDS WERE BACK IN 2005 WITH THE ALBUM ‘FACE TO FACE’.

THE BLUETONES A LOOK BACK AT THE BRITISH POP BAND’S 1996 HIT ‘SLIGHT RETURN’ FROM THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘EXPECTING TO FLY’.

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EPISODE 025 DEEP BLUE SOMETHING A LOOK BACK AT THE TEXAS BAND’S HIT

SINGLE ‘BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S’. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND THE GROUP’S MIX OF ROCK MUSIC AND

WORLD BEAT SENSIBILITY HAS MADE THEM ONE OF THE MOST REFRESHING NEW MUSIC SUCCESSES.

DANIEL POWTER THE CANADIAN SINGER SONGWRITER WAS RIDING HIGH IN 2005 ON THE UK CHARTS WITH HIS DEBUT SINGLE ‘BAD DAY’.

NICKELBACK THE CANADIAN ROCK OUTFIT STORMED UP THE US CHARTS, HITTING NUMBER ONE WITH THEIR RELEASE ‘ALL THE RIGHT REASONS’.

THE MAGIC NUMBERS THE HIGHLY-RATED POP BAND STORMED OUT OF THEIR DEBUT PERFORMANCE ON BBC SHOW ‘TOP OF THE POPS’ AFTER A PRESENTER ALLEGEDLY DESCRIBED THEM AS FAT.

PUSSYCAT DOLLS THE ALL SINGING ALL DANCING ENSEMBLE ROSE FROM UNDERGROUND COOL TO SIZZLING HOT IN THE SPACE OF A FEW MONTHS.

ANASTACIA THE US SOUL STAR GOT HER BIG BREAK ON A TV TALENT SHOW IN 1998 AND APPEARED IN A SIMILAR SERIES THAT AIRED ON MTV IN 2005.

SPANDAU BALLET THE EIGHTIES CHART TOPPERS RELEASED A DVD OF THEIR ‘THROUGH THE BARRICADES TOUR’ IN BIRMINGHAM 1986.

SPICE GIRLS A LOOK BACK AT THE POP GROUP’S BIGGEST HIT SINGLE ‘WANNABE’.

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EPISODE 026 ROBBIE WILLIAMS ROBBIE WILLIAMS STEPPED BACK INTO THE

LIMELIGHT WITH HIS SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘INTENSIVE CARE’ IN 2005.

INXS AFTER THE SUICIDE OF LEAD SINGER MICHAEL HUTCHANCE, THE ROCK BAND FOUND A REPLACEMENT AND RETURNED TO THE RECORDING STUDIO IN 2005.

CLAYTON/MULLEN BASS GUITARIST ADAM CLAYTON AND DRUMMER LARRY MULLEN FROM ROCK GROUP U2 REMIXED THE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE THEME FOR THE MOVIE STARRING TOM CRUISE.

ARCTIC MONKEYS THE ARCTIC MONKEYS HAVE TOPPED THE CHARTS AND MADE THE COVER OF NME MAGAZINE BY PROMOTING THEMSELVES THROUGH THE INTERNET.

BON JOVI A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THE ROCK BAND’S SONGS ‘HEY GOD’.

FRANZ FERDINAND THE AWARD-WINNING SCOTTISH BAND RELEASED A RE-RECORDED VERSION OF THEIR TRACK ‘THIS FIRE’ AS A DOWNLOADABLE SINGLE IN 2004.

PJ & DUNCAN A LOOK BACK AT THE BRITISH POP DUO’S COVER OF THE MONKEES’ ‘I’M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE’.

BEACH BOYS THE LEGENDARY POP GROUP ATTENDED A CEREMONY WHERE THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME BECAME AN OFFICIAL LANDMARK.

THE WONDERS A LOOK BACK AT THE FICTIONAL BAND’S HIT SONG ‘THAT THING YOU DO’ FROM THE 1996 MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME.

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