The second coming of Brit pop

It has been a long, rocky road for homegrown urban music in the UK, but this year N-Dubz and a close-knit group of stars have stormed the charts. Ben Thompson hails the new Brit pop scene's key players It's just before 3am on a Friday in October. The paparazzi are still hunting for scraps on the street outside the glitzy May Fair hotel, like city foxes going through the bins. Supposedly there was an improbable summit meeting between Jordan and Cheryl Cole going on inside earlier. And Mel B and h...

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