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HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO March 12 to 18, 1997 Jermaine Stewart, the 80s soul star whose biggest hit was "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off", dies of AIDS-related liver cancer, aged 39. Initially finding fame as a dancer on the long-running TV show Soul Train, Stewart also sang backing vocals for the likes of The Temptations, Tavares, Shalamar and Culture Club.

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO March 5 to 11, 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. is shot dead as he sits in a car outside the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles. Police confirm they are investigating links between the killing and the slaying of Tupac Shakur in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas six months earlier, fuelling tabloid stories of a feud between the East Coast and West Coast rap communities. Biggie's demise comes just days after Death Row Records president Marion 'Suge' Knight receives a nine-year sentence for parole violations.

After the funeral - the apocalypse. Second coming of Montreal troupe, designed for stadiums and the end of the world

You’ll have to excuse me if I sound as hoarse as a hacksaw this morning and seem more than a little rough around the edges, but I am in slow recovery from an extraordinary night in the company of The Hold Steady, who for today at least are officially the best rock’n’roll band on the planet.

Double-LP reissue of 'Either Or' also due out in May

Anti-Thatcher concept album expanded with an extra disc of b-sides, demos and live tracks

“Tangled Up In Blue” to appear in Oxbridge gore-fest Blue Blood

David Lee Roth returns to the fold

New film from Shaun of the Dead makers is here

A mighty Forest Whitaker powers Giles Foden adaptation