- The Observer, Sunday 22 January 2006
Uppers
Rip it up
In the New Year's Honours, Tom Jones is knighted, iPod designer Jonathan Ive gets a CBE, but best of all, punk icon Vivienne Westwood becomes a Dame.
Twinkle, twinkle
The marketing frenzy - sorry, we mean celebration - of Mozart's 250th anniversary continues with the release of two CDs of his music 'for babies'.
Glam rock
In other fashion news: the new face of Marc Jacobs is... Meg White from the White Stripes. Let's hope the colours he has in mind for the new season are red and white ...
Downers
Getting lippy
The Celebrity Big Brother household contains plenty of loud mouths - but we'll say this for Pete Burns, as a singer, he is the pick ...
Unearthed
The mega-starry One Earth environmental awareness concert organised by Brian Eno and co is put on hold.
Hugh's who
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and so Simon Cowell should be peachy keen on Hugh Grant, whose latestmovie , American Starz, sees him take the role of the preposterous host of a TV music talent show.
