La Roux strikes pop gold

She's the 'falsetto from the ghetto' who's taken revenge on school bullies by making 2009's first great pop record. Oh, and her mum was in The Bill. Tim Jonze talks 808s and heartbreak with La RouxTwenty one-year-old Elly Jackson is sprawled across a sofa, reliving the trauma of her first broken heart. She might be all blushes and awkward glances, but she wants us to understand that this was the real deal. "It wasn't a jokey crush," she says, eyes widening as she remembers. "I was totall...

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