Kirsty will probably be best remembered for her contribution to the greatest Christmas single ever recorded, The Pogues' outstanding Fairytale of New York . The Obituary comes from The Telegraph . Whether you liked The Melody Maker or not, it's sad to lose any magazine with the best part of a century's history and influence behind it. Cath Carroll, a former NME scribe, looks back at an inkie rivalry at Salon . Further analysis of Carroll's piece appears at the consistently excellent Rewired Blog .
Anger comes in two varieties.
The first flares up noisily but quickly blows itself out. The second is more dangerous. It simmers horribly on. It is the stuff of the eternal vendetta, the lifelong enmity, the unyielding bitterness. How sad that the name of Jacqueline du Pr now arouses so much of that second sort of anger.