It may be that I'm being thick, I can't find a link to the Festive Fifty Spotify playlist. Can anyone help?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8444156.stm

What? No Blind Faith?

I've just seen Mr Hepworth on this programme and I'm extremely concerned about the apparent state of his living quarters. I think it's time the Massive organised a whip-round for some furniture.

Bring on the trial of strengths!

I've just finished Philip Norman's biography of John Lennon. I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though I'd expected to despise Lennon by the end of the book. But here's the thing - I realised that I actually quite liked the man.

Certainly, he could be crass, insensitive, violent, and self-centred, but it seems that by the end of his life, he'd actually made a real effort to reform himself, and come to terms with his own shortcomings. Above all, this was a man who was never ever dull.

Anyone else read it/care to share their thoughts/disagree violently?

Given the number of iPhone users on this site, isn't it time some clever person developed our very own app? How about it, Fraser? It's dashed inconvenient doing the whole enlarging-the-text-with-thumbs thing all the time.

After the insurance, now it's Lego's version of guitar hero...

Have you noticed that he seems to have turned into Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler?

The 20th anniversary industry has hit 1989 and we're now on the bells-and-whistles "commemorative" edition of the Stone Roses first LP. But I want to throw out a bone here - they were ok, but they really weren't THAT good.

Maybe it was the context - the late 80s doesn't exactly shine as a golden era (even at the time, I thought we were going through a dull patch) so anyone who represented any sort of advance on dreary post-Smiths indie seemed revolutionary. Maybe it was just the quality of the drugs, I don't know. It just seems to me that the Roses LP is being heralded as something it really isn't - a Sgt Pepper or a Ziggy Stardust - when it's actually just an ok record which was of its moment, and which owes a lot more to the producer than the band would like to admit (and this impression was certainly reinforced by what David Hepworth said about it on a recent podcast).

The new mag's arrived, looking good, and let me be the first boring pedant to spot an out-of-date remark about Michael Jackson - page 32, about three quarters of the way through the good kicking being doled out to Jo Whiley by Rob Fitzpatrick