The only thing I know about The Courteeners is they played Man United’s title party. Football rivalries are petty, I know they are. I support Liverpool. I have never listened to The Courteeners. King of petty here. Obviously The Courteeners will be devastated to hear this news and since I have decided to snub them it has had a huge effect on their career, over the twenty years they have been together they have released eight albums and every one of them has made the top ten

They were the great hope, they could barely play, their gigs lasted twenty minutes they hated everything and they had delivered with a debut album that over forty years later is still glorious to these ears. Bobby Gillespie had left the band to focus on Primal Scream full time and for the recording of their second album drum machines replaced him as the Reid brothers went it alone. The band parted with manager Alan McGee and were even able to manage forty-five-minute sets

I’m fifteen in 1986 and never miss an episode of Top of the Pops, The Tube and The Chart Show as I slowly become obsessed with music. There is some guy on The Chart Show with the most imaginative video for a song called Sledgehammer, it becomes a huge hit and the subsequent solo album So is a number one smash. This guy is Peter Gabriel and it’s the first time I have heard of him. Numerous articles at the time informed me that he was the original lead singer of Genesis, but