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1. 1. Best rock and pop CDs of the year

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 December 2004 PAUL Taylor chooses his favourite albums of 2004.

2. 2. Legendary rock band Queen to tour again

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 15 December 2004 ICONIC 1970s' rock band Queen are to go on tour next year with guitarist and vocalist Paul Rodgers replacing legendary frontman Freddie Mercury, who died of Aids in 1991.

3. 3. Simon and Garfunkel - Old Friends: Live On Stage (Columbia)

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 25 November 2004 I RASHLY declared Simon and Garfunkel's Manchester show the greatest gig I had seen in almost 20 years of music criticism, and, reflecting with the benefit of this double CD recorded in New York and New Jersey, I'm inclined to stick with that initial emotional judgement.

4. 4. Deep Purple @ Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 November 2004 DEEP Purple's appeal has always been in a combination of power and astonishing grace - a bit like an ice-skating rhinoceros.

5. 5. Nigel Kennedy @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 31 March 2004 VINTAGE Nigel Kennedy, spiky-haired violin virtuoso - and still crazy after all these years with his singular interpretations of Vivaldi's lesser known works.

6. 6. Kennedy comes to Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 March 2004 LOOKS like Nigel Kennedy is somewhere near where he started out, as he brings his Vivaldi Experience to the great British public after a few years out of the limelight.

7. 7. Stacey Kent @ Cinnamon Club

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 01 June 2004 EXPATRIATE American Stacey Kent has won acclaim for her refreshing interpretations of the great jazz and popular music standards, but she has now begun to diversify.

8. 8. The Gordon Trunkfield Band @ Railway, Greenfield

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 July 2004 IT'S billed as a solo gig, so when local singer-guitarist Gordon Trunkfield arrives with a band which includes his drummer mate Peter Simensky - with whom he plays in Treetown - plus John Howarth (keyboards) and ex-Sad Caf' mainman Rob Maxim (guitar, vocal), I'm inclined to protest to the management.

9. 9. Steve, the ultimate Yes man

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 24 February 2004 IT is one of those questions guitar-lovers like to ask: which one of your guitars would you rescue from a burning building? And Steve Howe has no doubt about the answer.

10. 10. Will Manchester offer enough for the choosy Queen of Pop?

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 18 May 2004 WITH a '250m fortune, a 1,200-acre country pile and fashionable friends from Milan to Miami, Madonna is the ultimate material girl. She boasts a career spanning three decades and, while her ability to shock is waning, she is still one of the movers and shakers on the pop scene and the celebrity circuit.

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