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Lily Allen has labelled the Adele acceptance speech incident at the Brit Awards as a metaphor for sexism. The ‘Smile’ singer revealed on social networking website Twitter that the incident – which involved Adele being stopped from completing her speech due to time constraints – symbolised the disrespect for females working in the music business.

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A Tumblr page that features females that look like Skrillex has become a web hit. The page is filled with photographs of girls that look similar to the Grammy-winning dubstep DJ/producer – featuring females with his trademark undercut long hair hairstyle, big glasses, and piercings. Have a look at the page!

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Ed Sheeran has revealed that he was inspired to play the guitar by Eric Clapton. The 21-year-old singer told Absolute Radio that he had learned to play the musical instrument after seeing the legendary guitarist perform at Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace in 2002.

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Signs that The Futureheads are thinking well outside of the box show no indication of fading. As we reported last week, the band’s new album, Rant, comes out on April 2nd and will be an entirely a capella work and now the Sunderland band say they are preparing a food festival this summer to coincide with the London Olympics.

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Noel Gallagher has sung the praises of fried banana and pineapple. The High Flying Birds Star was blogging for the Huffington Post on his regular blog ‘Tales From the Middle of Nowhere’ about his recent travels on tour, where he focussed on the bizarre cuisine of the hotel he was staying at in Belfast.

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