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• Readers recommend: share your most startling songs

  29-12-2016 21:00
  
  Make your nomination in the comments and a reader will pick the best eligible tracks for a playlist next week – you have until Monday 2 January Songs that surprise this week’s guru from start to finish will make the playlist – think eclectic and take the challenge now.
  You have until 11pm on Monday 2 January to post your nomination and make your justification. Regular RR contributor Pairubu will select from your recommendations and produce the playlist, to be published on 5 Jan
  
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• George Clinton on funk, touring and staying relevant at 75

  29-12-2016 18:45
  
  The legendary singer is seeing his star on the ascendant with a new tour, new albums and a supergroup keeping him on the straight and narrowAs a major architect of funk, George Clinton deserves a place in music history alongside James Brown and Sly Stone. His work, later remixed and reworked in a string of snatched hip-hop samples, injected inventive energy into the 70s with his albums as leader of the Funkadelic and Parliament outfits. While he grew up in New Jersey, he was born in North Caroli
  
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• Rob Kardashian 'Checks Into Hospital' As Blac Chyna And Kris Jenner Rush To His Side

  29-12-2016 17:14
  
  Poor Rob.
  
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• Take A Look Inside The Brand New Celebrity Big Brother House

  29-12-2016 16:20
  
  It's FANCY.
  
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• Death stars: music’s great losses of 2016

  29-12-2016 16:00
  
  From David Bowie to Prince and Leonard Cohen, death has cast a long shadow over the world of pop and rock. But, as more pioneers reach a certain age, it’s something we’ll have get used toTrying to guess how history will judge an era in pop is a famously tough call. Nostalgia twists and distorts what actually happened. Stuff that seemed hugely important then isn’t always what seems important years on: stars get forgotten, hits vanish from memory, emphasis is subtly shifted to re
  
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• 19 Of The Sexiest Video Game Moments Of 2016

  29-12-2016 15:38
  
  Mmm sexy sexy sex sex!
  
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• ‘Life goes on – try dancing’: our writers’ favourite music moments of 2016

  29-12-2016 15:00
  
  From the loss of friends and family to the celebration of marriage and parenthood, our writers recall the times when music hit home this yearFix You by Coldplay
  Alexis Petridis
  I couldn’t be more surprised to find myself writing about Coldplay playing Fix You at Glastonbury as my musical moment the year. I’m not one of those people who thinks Coldplay are the living embodiment of all that’s wrong about latterday rock music, but nor am I, by any stretch of the imagination, a big
  
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• Kim Kardashian Is Protecting North And Saint From Family Drama With Extra Playdates With Penelope

  29-12-2016 14:53
  
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star and husband Kanye West are working hard to ensure the kids are alright
  
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• Adele Sparks Speculation She Got Married On Christmas Day

  29-12-2016 14:33
  
  The Rumour Has It singer has the rumour mill in overdrive after being spotted wearing a wedding band
  
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• Scarlett Johansson Is The Highest Grossing Film Star Of 2016

  29-12-2016 14:09
  
  The Captain America beauty was involved in the biggest money-making movies of the year
  
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• Single Rita Ora Admits To Feeling Lonely

  29-12-2016 13:43
  
  The I Will Never Let You Down singer is feeling alone as she gears up to finally release her second album
  
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• Has Brooklyn Beckham Rekindled His Romance With Ex Girlfriend Sonia Ammar?!

  29-12-2016 13:43
  
  Tounges are a wagging.
  
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• Selena Gomez Is Making Music With An X Factor Judge

  29-12-2016 13:12
  
  The Hands To Myself singer has teamed up with a judge of The X Factor USA on a brand new track
  
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• Kirstie Allsopp and Sky presenter Kay Burley embroiled in Twitter feud over George Michael's death

  29-12-2016 12:52
  
  Kirstie Allsopp and Sky presenter Kay Burley got caught up in a surprising Twitter spat over media coverage of George Michael's death. The Location, Location, Location host started the conversation when she spoke out against Sky's reporting of the music icon's death. ".@SkyNews reporting of George Michael's death is appalling," she tweeted.
  
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• Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock Goes Public With Boyfriend Andre Gray

  29-12-2016 12:50
  
  The Little Mix star went out partying with friends and her footballer boyfriend
  
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• Kim Kardashian Sex Tape Ex Ray-J Set To Enter Celebrity Big Brother

  29-12-2016 12:17
  
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star and her ex made a sex tape in 2003 which propelled her to fame when it leaked in 2007
  
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• P!nk Welcomes Her First Baby Boy

  29-12-2016 11:49
  
  The 37-year-old singer and her 41-year-old husband welcomed their second child on December 26
  
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• Louis Tomlinson 'Supported By Liam Payne' As He Says Goodbye to Mum Johannah Deakin At Funeral

  29-12-2016 11:41
  
  LiLo
  
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• Usain Bolt Wants To Be In ‘The Flash’ Movie

  29-12-2016 11:37
  
  He’s basically a real life superhero anyway, right?
  
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• Actress Debbie Reynolds Passes Away Just Days After Daughter Carrie Fisher

  29-12-2016 10:49
  
  It's been a tough week.
  
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• These Are The Major Album Releases You Need To Look Out For In 2017

  29-12-2016 10:33
  
  Featuring Taylor Swift, The xx, Zara Larsson and more...
  
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• George Michael: friends and family 'touched beyond words' by tributes

  29-12-2016 08:16
  
  Star’s publicist describes ‘incredible outpouring of love’ from fans in wake of singer’s death on Christmas DayGeorge Michael’s family and close friends have thanked fans for their tributes over the past two days and reiterated that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.The statement by Michael’s publicist read: “The family and close friends of George have been touched beyond words by the incredible outpouring of love for him in th
  
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• Taylor, Trump and Twitter – a year in the life of Kanye West

  29-12-2016 08:00
  
  It’s tough keeping up with the world of Kanye West. So let us take the hard work out of it and present to you the highlights of a packed 12 months of megalomaniaAfter releasing a new track, Facts, on New Year’s Eve, Kanye followed it up with another new track, No Parties in LA, on 18 January. At that point, his forthcoming album was due to be called Swish (replacing the previous So Help Me God), and was – its maker said – “the best album of all time”. On 26 Ja
  
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• Amanda Palmer: 'Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again'

  29-12-2016 07:10
  
  Cult cabaret artist reveals her hopes for a cultural revolution – and that she and husband Neil Gaiman have been granted five-year working visas for Australia Amanda Palmer has called the past few months in the United States “a total shit show”, but there’s one silver lining she’s looking forward to in president Trump’s America: a renaissance of political art.Speaking at a press conference during Woodford Folk festival in rural Queensland – where she ann
  
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