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29. Those Swollen Hand Blues (2009)Keeping up the curious habit of putting better songs on B-sides than their albums, the flip of Falling Down borrowed its title from Pink Floyd’s The Wall and its atmosphere from former Floyd frontman Syd Barrett’s disturbing final recordings with the band: it’s authentically spooky and unlike anything else Oasis recorded. 28. Be Here Now (1997)Deficient in the so
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Aso also twice got her surname wrong – calling her Kamimura – and incorrectly suggested she was Japan’s first female foreign minister. In fact, she is the third, after Makiko Tanaka and Yoriko Kawaguchi, who were appointed during the administration of Junichiro Koizumi in the early 2000s. Kamikawa, who became one of five women appointed to prime minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet in September last y
Peter Saville on his classic Joy Division and New Order artwork
Next month sees the release of Total, the first compilation to combine the back catalogues of Joy Division and New Order – who shared band members, a record label and a sleeve designer. Peter Saville was a co-founder of Factory Records and credits the label's unique culture for providing him with a creative freedom on a par with its bands. "I had the opportunity to make the kind of objects I wante
Miracle at Haneda: how cabin crew pulled off great escape from Japan plane fire
The pilot who brought the skidding plane, now resembling a fireball, to a halt on its nose; the crew who, unable to use the damaged PA system, calmly issued instructions through megaphones; and the passengers, who remained seated before making their way to evacuation slides, leaving their carry-on luggage to the flames. Real-time images filmed from the terminal building at Haneda – one of two inte
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer killed in Gaza
They said the poet had vowed to “throw (his) pen in the soldiers’ faces” as a last resort if his house was stormed. “My heart is broken, my friend and colleague Refaat Alareer was killed with his family,” the Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha wrote on Facebook. The killing came as Israel conducted further strikes on Thursday evening in the north of the Gaza Strip, pressing on with its war to destroy Hamas
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