Focus Music Notes. "Out of the Blues". Popular music through the decades

Annie Mac IS dance music’s first lady. She is one of Radio 1’s flagship DJs, a frequent headliner at stadiums, parties, clubs and festivals around the world, (from Ibiza and Miami to the mountain ranges of Japan) and the founder of the Annie Mac Presents brand. She is also known for spotting the stars of tomorrow today, with everyone from Katy B, Justice and DJ Fresh through to Azealia Banks, Frank Ocean and Plan B all getting high praise early on via Miss Mac and her Friday night show. This autumn will see Annie Mac and her Annie Mac Presents brand upping its game further. The AMP tour is getting bigger (with more dates in larger venues) and the forthcoming AMP 2012 compilation will feature exclusive material for the first time. Annie Mac Presents Superstar DJs will be broadcast in October on Channel 4 and sees Annie interviewing and exploring the lives and lifestyles of some of the biggest and most credible names in dance music and clubbing culture. The AMP 2012 compilation, rele

As Robbie Williams looks to the future with the release of the incredible “Take The Crown”, his ninth studio album and his first for Island/Universal, it might also be interesting to remember his considerable achievements so far. In a career strewn with awards, Robbie has quite simply sold more records than any other British solo artist in history. Having sold a staggering 60 million albums over his solo career, Robbie has also won more Brit awards than any other artist in history ( a grand total of 17, to be precise). Six of his albums appear in the all time top 100 biggest selling albums in the UK whilst Williams appears in the Guinness Book of World Records for selling 1.6 million concert tickets in a day in 2006 . In 2010 Robbie Williams won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the BRITS; later that year his reformation with Take That led to their album becoming the fastest selling album of the century. Since then Robbie has been working on his brand new solo

With their debut album, Lonsdale Boys Club – Charlie, Topher and Loz – have crafted a set of infectious, summer-tinged pre-made festival anthems. Signed to Gary Barlow’s Future label, they infuse each song with a dash of funkiness, the grit of the UK urban scene, a smattering of their love for all things house, a pinch of roots reggae, plenty of pop nous and of course, a gargantuan hook or twelve. “If we had to pigeon-hole it somehow I'd say it's zesty, sprightly guitar pop with an urban flavour and banging beats,” frontman Charlie says. Pre-Lonsdale Boys Club, the band were scattered across the globe, bassist Topher producing and working various jobs in Australia and Cyprus, Charlie Djing and writing songs for a possible solo career in London and Loz finishing his music studies in Liverpool as well as Djing at various drum n bass nights. Meeting through a mutual guitar teacher who had a studio on west London’s Lonsdale Road, it was only a matter of time before they came to