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1. 31. EMI denies multimillion pound payoff

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 January 2002 The future of one of the most expensive recording deals in pop music history remained clouded in uncertainty last night after EMI moved to deny industry talk that it had agreed a multimillion pound payment to terminate its contract with the singer Mariah Carey.

2. 32. Shining through - ex-Verve star Simon Jones

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 April 2002 Ex-Verve guitarist Simon Jones talks to Belinda Hanks about his new band, The Shining, being a dad and dodging the music industry hype.

3. 33. Alfie @ The Ritz

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 25 March 2002 "This is a big night for us", shouted Alfie frontman Lee Gorton at the Ritz. It was a somewhat modest statement from a man whose Chorlton based band have toured the world with Badly Drawn Boy and been hailed as the pioneers of NAM (the New Acoustic Movement) by the music press.

4. 34. Planet Pop's prestigious and a bit scurrilous awards 2002

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 27 December 2002 2002 was the year that pop died, punk rocked, clubbing changed a bit, British music got good again and people took yet another opportunity to ignore Dannii Minogue.

5. 35. Air Guitar @ Cornerhouse

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 22 October 2002 THE trouble with pop music-nostalgia, unlike what constitutes good art in fact, is that it's a useless idea under preservation. It's this conflict between the ephemeral and legacy that makes the Cornerhouse's current Air Guitar exhibition as hit and miss as it sounds.

6. 36. Modfather of rock to the rescue

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 12 July 2002 SO far this week, Old Trafford has seen a megastar dandy and three punk chumps, which both beat cricket, but the Move urban music event's biggest crowd so far turned out to witness all that nonsense stripped away.

7. 37. Dylan returns to Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 January 2002 MUSIC legend Bob Dylan is making a dramatic return to Manchester — the scene of one of his most famous-ever concerts.

8. 38. RSL at Gpercussion

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 August 2002 As the Commonwealth Games nears a climax and the cynics admit that, yes, it was pretty special after all, Manchester music will get a look in at G-Percussion, the returning dance all-dayer at Castlefield Arena.

9. 39. Your views on Move

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 11 July 2002 Find out what the audience really thought of Manchester's biggest urban music festival.

10. 40. Classics - Bruch and Britten

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 23 August 2002 REALLY, it should be called the Liverpool Symphony. Max Bruch, the German composer whose violin concerto has a good claim to being the favourite piece of classical music in the world ever (it's always top of the Classic FM popularity list), spent the years 1880 to 1883 as conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society.

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