After the Brits debacle, Mick Fleetwood insisted on choosing his next co-host personally.

Congratulations to Richard and thanks for the big laugh I had when I read that. Send me your address and I’ll get a magazine out to you.

If you don’t know what the joke is all about read this.

Oh 1980s, how I miss you sometimes. You were so silly and pretentious it’s a shame we had to part.

On the Wikipedia page for “Vienna” I read that it is “often performed live by Midge Ure in solo performances, most recently at Butlins in Skegness on Sat 8th May 2011″ which is, you know, both funny and sad.

Swamped at work at the moment so it’s time for another one of these. As usual the best one will get a free copy of my lovely magazine.

Singer Lana Del Rey refers to herself as “a gangsta Nancy Sinatra” which pushes all the right buttons for me, as does her voice and face (not sure about those lips though), and this song is so gorgeously atmospheric you could sink into it. I think I’d like it more if it had a snappier tune but I’m just being picky, me like it a lot and the video is fantastic.

*Bumped from its spot by the Amy Winehouse news.

Look at this beautiful young girl, brimming with promise and talent at the start of her career. If only you could go back in time and warn her.

Of course we don’t know what killed her yet but we can guess. A lot of people have been saying they saw this coming but I’m with Davy, it was still a big shock as I thought she’d get her shit together in the end, that the daughter of a London cabbie would be tougher and more sensible. So I’m stunned and sad and, I have to say, a little angry with her for pissing so much promise away — but that’s just me being selfish. What a tragic bloody waste.

Download: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse (mp3)
Download: You Know I’m No Good (Live) – Amy Winehouse (mp3)