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NME Lists 50 Coolest People In Music

Posted by Jenny on November 27, 2006

The NME have announced their annual list of '50 Coolest People In Music' and it's... interesting, to say the least. Who knows how they came to their final decisions, and what definition of 'cool' they are working on, but the top 10 goes as follows: 1. Beth Ditto (The Gossip) 2. Faris Rotter (The Horrors) 3. Lily Allen 4. Jarvis Cocker 5. Karen O (The Yeah Yeah Yeahs) 6. Keiren Webster (The View) 7. Kate Jackson (The Long Blondes) 8. Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) 9. Thom Yorke (Radiohead) 10. Lovefoxxx (CSS) You can see the other 40 lucky nominees by clicking "read more." 11. Paul Simonon (The Clash/The Good The Bad & The Queen) 12. Liam Gallagher (Oasis) 13. Jamie Reynolds (The Klaxons) 14. The House Of Lords (The Young Knives) 15. Tahita Bulmer (New Young Pony Club) 16. Cee-Lo Green 17. Ryan Ross (Panic! At The Disco) 18. Carl Barat (Dirty Pretty Things) 19. Jack White (The White Stripes/The Raconteurs) 20. Jamie Frost (The Automatic) 21. Serge Pizzorno (Kasabian) 22. Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello) 23. Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes) 24. Meg White (The White Stripes) 25. Jay-Z 26. Keith Richards 27. Matt Bellamy (Muse) 28. Pete Doherty (crack cocaine) 29. Brandon Flowers (The Killers) 30. MC Statik 31. Richard Hawley 32. Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) 33. Vincent Vincent (Vincent Vincent and the Villains) 34. Lupe Fiasco 35. Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) 36. Mike Patton (ex-Faith No More) 37. Jamie Williams (Tilly & The Wall) 38. Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) 39. Mike Skinner (The Streets) 40. Ali Love 41. Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio) 42. Mince Fratelli (The Fratellis) 43. Devendra Banhart 44. Sam Duckworth (Get Cape Wear Cape Fly) 45. Victoria Bergsman (ex-The Concretes) 46. Jackie McKeown (1990s) 47. George Barnett (These New Puritans) 48. Cat Power 49. Thorunn Antonia (Fields) 50. Amy Winehouse

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