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Writer, podcast guru and 2x ARIA Gold Award winning Exec Producer. Literary Agent @MWHamilton. One half of Ronnie & Clyde: ronnieandclyde.co.uk
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Foreigner's desperate, misguided quest to become cool

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By Rob Fitzpatrick
| MSN UK Verified
Rock bands want two things: to make a lot of money and be cool. Some, such as Led Zeppelin , manage both; some only manage one. Foreigner made – make, in fact, since they currently have nearly 21 million listeners a month on Spotify and are back on tour in the UK and Europe – a lot of money. But were they ever cool? No. Did that bug them? Very much. The question, then, is what might a band be willing to do to appear cool?
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Guns N' Roses have become an embarrassing cabaret act

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By Rob Fitzpatrick
| MSN UK Verified
Guns N' Roses were once the most dangerous rock 'n' roll band in the world: a group of excitable maniacs whose songs tore through the ozone layer of late Eighties pop and planted a ragged, bourbon-soaked flag in the dirt. But on Saturday night, as Download Festival headliners, every trace of that visceral danger was absent. In its place, we witnessed a well-drilled, super-professional cabaret outfit who sashayed through the hits and smiled sweetly as they did it.
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This Boyzone reunion was breathtaking in its awfulness

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By Rob Fitzpatrick
| Yahoo Entertainment Verified
Keith Duffy, Ronan Keating and Shane Lynch of Boyzone reuniting for the first time since 2019 - Redferns Rob Fitzpatrick Sat, June 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM UTC 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A band needs an awful lot of charisma to pull off a summer-weekend stadium show, and on Friday, in north London, Boyzone’s distinct lack of it felt as huge and untraversable as the Mariana Trench.
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