Syd Barrett turned up out of the blue as Pink Floyd were listening to playbacks of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Alice Cooper's boa constrictor, a co-star of his live act suffered a fatal bite from a rat, ban on Janet Jackson's latest album, ‘All For You’. A Grandfather who set up his own pirate radio station in Wakefield, Yorkshire was under investigation, Led Zeppelin were officially voted the nation’s favourite band by the BBC’s ‘I’m In A Rock ‘N` Roll Band’.