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A lot has changed in music in 30 years and the most important change, according to an English survey, was the launch of downloadable music.

NURSE Birhan Woldu knows more than most how fragile our grip on life can be. The world watched horrified as TV footage showed her as a three-year-old clinging to life in famine-ravaged Ethiopia.

THE sound is distorted by rickety old speakers - but as the band strikes up on a windswept Ethiopian plateau, the song is unmistakable.

The first time Bob Geldof saw Birhan Woldu was on television. It was 1984 and the face of the child was one of the most haunting images in the BBC report which alerted the world to the famine in Ethiopia in which as many as a million people died.

November 25, 1984: Do They Know It's Christmas is recorded. There were 36 famous musicians who gathered together to form Band Aid.

Some of Scotland's most influential music acts of the past three decades will hit the stage for the Homecoming Live Final Fling on Saturday.

THERE are no rules. Some surrender to the ageing process, others fight it. Your Madonnas resist through desperation, frantically gymming it four or five hours a day, nibbling barely enough to nourish an anorexic sparrow.

HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE.

SEASONS come and go throughout the year and they all mean different things. Winter means snow, Spring means flowers, Summer means sunshine and Autumn means the annual UK tour by Status Quo.

The recently concluded Youth Engagement Summit 2009 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia brought together an impressive line-up of speakers.

Soul diva Aretha Franklin threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organizers couldn't promise to shut off all ventilation at Madison Square Garden in New York while she was in the building.

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Caption: Aretha Franklin and guest the 31st annual Kennedy Center Honors - arrivals at the Kennedy Centre Washington DC, USA .... Soul diva ARETHA FRANKLIN threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organisers couldn't promise to shut off all ventilation at Madison Square ...

No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years.

SOCIALITE Peaches Geldof attended a glitzy Church of Scientology ball where the star-studded guest list is understood to have included Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

An expanded move by EMI into live concert recordings offers a glimpse both at a much needed revenue stream for record labels and an additional income source for many artists.

Its anthemic template, crafted in 1984 with the assistance of co-producer Brian Eno , came three years before a oeThe Joshua Tree,a which took the Irish band a oefrom heroes to superstars,a according to Rolling Stone magazine, and sold 25 million copies.

The event: U2, Metallica , Jeff Beck , Aretha Franklin and a string of sharp guests played Part 2 of the two-night celebration of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's 25th anniversary.

PEACHES Geldof just can't help nodding off - even during an interview for a documentary all about HER.

As you've probably noticed by now, Spandau Ballet are back and we reckon they're 'definitely the best reformed band of the year'. They're also one of the most Londony, as Gary Kemp's just-published biography reveals.