Common People - The Pulp hit Common People has been voted the top Britpop anthem by listeners of BBC Radio 6 Music, beating Oasis, Blur and Suede to take the title. DJ Steve Lamacq revealed the top 30 as part of a week-long celebration to mark the 20th birthday of Britpop. More than 30,000 people voted, with The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony second and Oasis tracks Don't Look Back in Anger and Wonderwall in third and fourth.
Park Life - A spread of established and up-and-coming acts have been added to the bill for this year's T in the Park festival. Paul Weller, Wilko Johnson and Soul II Soul will perform alongside Biffy Clyro, Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris and Arctic Monkeys at Balado this summer. A number of breakthrough acts including Earl Sweatshirt, Wilkinson and Jess Glynn have also joined the line-up. The festival will be held on the weekend of 11 to 13 July.
Management Decision- The latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony also saw the first ever inductions for managers of rock bands, which went to the late Brian Epstein, who guided the Beatles to stardom, and Andrew Loog Oldham, who launched the careers of the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton. However, the former Stones' manager boycotted the ceremony.
"I won't be there," he said at a recent lecture in Berlin. "I'll tell you why: It's a television show. "Twenty years ago, it was an incredible party in the Waldorf-Astoria where everybody could behave exactly as they could 20 years ago. And then it became a business. I think those people basically hijacked the name 'rock and roll.'"
(Jim Evans)
