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James Brown may have been the hardest-working man in show business, but no one in the history of rock & roll has covered more ground than Prince. As a songwriter -- for himself and for others ranging from the Time, Sheila E., and Vanity 6 to the Bangles and Chaka Khan -- he ranks with Lennon and McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Smokey Robinson; as a guitarist, with Hendrix and Steve Cropper. He was the most influential record producer and arranger of the '80s and the most influential creative speller in all of pop (though Slade came close). No artist has swung as fluently from style to style (hard rock, stripped-down funk, jazzy show tunes, intoxicated balladry, kid-pop, dance raunch), and only JB has put on more incendiary live shows. And if Prince had done nothing but stand stock still onstage and sung other people's material, he'd have locked up his place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; in the last three decades, popular music has produced few finer singers.

• Snob Scrilla, 
• Dappled CIties, 
• Yves Klein Blue, 
• 5 O'Clock Heroes, 
• The Pictures, 
• Falls Festival, 
• Die Magic Band, 
• AIR Awards, 
• Legs 11 

• Edith Piaff, 
• Dolly PArton, 
• Janis Joplin, 
• Joni MItchell, 
• POMOMOFO, 
• the cloud Room, 
• Diamond Nights, 
• Bombay 1, 
• Guna Sanagh, 
• Nick Drake, 
• Dan Arborise, 
• Tori AMos, 
• Samara Lubelski, 
• Devendra Banhardt, 
• Chad VaanGalen, 
• Sigur Ross, 
• the cribs, 
• the music, 
• muse, 
• madness, 
• two tone, 
• srah hepburn, 
• thomas dybdahl, 
• infusion, 
• moscow schoolboy, 
• sonic youth, 
• the pixies, 
• gerling, 
• digital primate, 
• shonen knife, 
• the like, 
• Reno, 
• ..........

• favourite film of all time is Sante Sangra - nothing beats this evil circus wonder Television television is for DV's - oh and the odd turkey slap

God of small things,  by arundathi roy,  anything by Salman rushdie except his last book - too much living in the burbs reading who weekly sir! The life of Pi,  and now my freakin chemistry text book... no bullshit Heroes My mum and the next door neighbours dog.