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Mark Savage
@mrdiscopop
BBC music correspondent, former composer, lemonade drinker, lemonade thinker, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, hamster, potato. These are my views, not the BBC's.
London
Joined January 2009
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    Very proud of this one: A blow-by-blow account of @prince and the making of Sign O' The Times.
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    A policeman skipping with young fans at #OneLoveManchester. This is the moment I broke.
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    As part of the @bts_bighit art project, artist Tomás Saraceno is hoping to send a self-propelled hot air balloon, made of recycled plastic bags, from London to Korea in just nine days.
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    BTS currently making their pitch to do the next Bond theme at the #Grammys.
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    Stormzy's verse on the Artists for Grenfell single is so moving.
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    Glastonbury doesn't show football. But in one of the campsites, someone set up a flatscreen to screen the England match. That someone was Louis Tomlinson, from One Direction. He spoke to @katierazz after England's win.
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    “I just became a fan of what they call fine art and visual art from last year, so I’m just a beginner”, says BTS’s RM. His new hobby is visiting museums and galleries which “gives me a whole other world of thrill and shock and inspiration.” #BTSConnect
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    Stars like @BTS_twt @taylorswift13 @Harry_Styles and @theweeknd helped the global music industry bring in $21bn last year.
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    Two weeks ago, I posted a photo of BTS doing weird things with grapes. Tons (and I means TONS) of fans wrote back saying, “actually, it’s a reference to Greek mythology and Carl Jung.” So I looked into it and...
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    Just a regular morning watching ⁦@bts_bighit⁩ launching a five-city art installation at the ⁦@SerpentineUK
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    Harry Styles’ marketing team have gone rogue.
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    .@stormzy wearing his slippers on @BBCBreakfast because he was half asleep when he got in the cab is the most relatable pop star moment of all time.
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    Blackpink have the nicest fans, who even tried to clear a space for my daughter when she couldn’t see the stage. I still had to put her on my shoulders for Shut Down (her favourite song) but the concert was a spectacle from start to finish.
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    I’m sorry, but Glastonbury has peaked already.
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