LAST week I was beamed back to 1983. That was the year I got my first exposure to David Bowie after my older sister’s boyfriend gave me a copy of Hunky Dory on cassette tape.

FRANK Sinatra described him as “one of the major singers of our time,” and Mel Torme regarded him as “the greatest ‘pure’ singer in the world.” He even has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Chart-topping boyband One Direction are to play at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium next year, it has been announced.

Susan Boyle’s Scottish tour tickets could be in such high demand that there is already talk of an extra date being added at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.

IS it just me, or does anyone else think Justin Bieber is in need of a good slap?

AS an opener, five lads with bushy afro hairstyles belt out the Jackson 5’s 1970 number one hit ABC.

WIND the clock back to the 2006 X Factor final and immediately after Take That had performed A Million Love Songs with a young singer called Leona Lewis, Gary Barlow turned to Simon Cowell and told him: “This girl is probably 50 times better than any other contestant you have ever had. You have a big responsibility.”