But sometimes, opening peoples' eye to change is a good thing. For example, many people believe that rap

Hardly a day passes without hearing about Amy Winehouse inching towards an inevitable premature death - but finally help is at hand.

Has Amy Winehouse finally realised that her drug addiction is serious and that she has to get urgent help? No. Have Amy's friends and family staged a dramatic life-altering intervention to finally see sense and show how the damage that she's doing to herself?

No. But Bryan Adams has written a song that might vaguely make the occasional reference to Amy Winehouse. Amy, consider yourself cured.

You wouldn't want to be Ringo Starr at the moment.

OK, it goes without saying that you wouldn't really want to be Ringo Starr at any moment, unless you're into being recovering Scouse alcoholics who hit things for a living and sing songs about boning 16-year-olds.

But, seriously, you wouldn't want to be Ringo Starr right now. He's stropped off Live With Regis & Kelly right before he was supposed to appear, you see.

Have you heard the news? Boyzone are reforming because they've put aside their differences and not because Take That and the Spice Girls have got rich doing it and nobody cares about Ronan Keating's solo career any more.

Yes, Boyzone - the most famous elderly Irish boyband after Westlife and Murtagh Fitzpatrick And The Clodpoopers - are reforming, but there's a hitch. Boyzone wanted their comeback single to be I Gave It All Away, a song written by inexplicably popular annoyance Mika - but Mika's not having it. That's a good thing, because when a band interprets a songwriter's work, the result is often a brand-new, unique piece of music spliced equally from each party's DNA like a baby - and we can all agree that a part-Mika/ part-Boyzone baby would probably end up looking and sounding a lot like the disfigured genetically-deformed mutant puppy from The Fly II.