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COSEY FANNI TUTTI’s (below) “shocking and elegant” memoir Art Sex Music is published next April by Faber. Expect revelations about Throbbing Gristle, wrecking civilisation and dancing on the video for Sylvester’s Mighty Real …the new expanded version of OASIS’s 1997 LP Be Here Now due in October could have been so different: initially Noel

Gallagher planned to re-edit the generous work, but admitted he, “got as far as the first track before we couldn’t be arsed anymore” …US TV game show Hollywood Squares is get a rap update on VH1, thanks to ICE CUBE. Hip Hop Squares will keep the show’s questions/ noughts and crosses format … the US legal pot business has a new player. MELISSA

ETHERIDGE’s Etheridge Farms products for Californian medical patients will follow the launch of her Cannabis-Infused Wine Tincture. Consume responsibly! …the fourth annual Cassette Store Day is on October 8. Acts including Big Star, Courtney Barnett, and the Ramones have

their music made available on trusty magnetic tape… finally, FREDDIE

MERCURY (right) would’ve turned 70 on September 5, and was honoured with a blue plaque outside his old family home in Feltham. He’s also had an asteroid named after him by The International Astronomical Union. The 3.5km rock Asteroid (17473) Freddie mercury orbits between Mars and Jupiter. It follows the naming of the equally spacedelic Asteroid (52665) Brian may – when do Roger and John get theirs?