For almost four decades John Peel was a first port of call for up-and-coming musicians, with acts ranging from Marc Bolan to the White Stripes owing their stardom to the late disc jockey. tells a bigger story about the Earth's history," Dr Makovicky said "It... provides definitive evidence for a more global distribution ... for dromaeosaurs than was previously known, [and] suggests dromaeosaurs on northern and southern continents took different evolutionary routes after the land masses they occupied drifted apart.". Palaeontologists found the fossilised bones of the 90 million-year-old creature in a block of sandstone in Argentina. The dinosaur, called Buiteraptor, belongs to a group of carnivorous theropods called dromaeosaurs that ran on two legs and are thought to be distantly related to modern-day birds. It is the first time a specimen from the group has been found in the southern hemisphere, which shows dinosaurs were more widely dispersed around the world than previously imagined.Peter Makovicky, curator of dinosaurs at The Field Museum in Chicago, who led the excavation in Patagonia, said until now dromaeosaurs had been found only in Asia and North America, which once formed the landmass of the northern hemisphere.Such distribution suggested those dinosaurs originated on the ancient continent - called Laurasia - and did not manage to migrate to the other ancient continent of Gondwana in the south before they began to drift apart."Buiteraptor...
iPod nano: £140/£180 iPod shuffle Launched in January, there are two models of this screen-less version iPod shuffle: £65/£85 Genevi? Roberts. The discovery of a strange-looking dinosaur with a beak-like snout, feathers and wing-like limbs has forced scientists to rethink the relationship between dinosaurs and birds. 60GB: £270-£275 iPod mini and iPod nano The mini was launched in January 2004 but replaced last month by the nano, smaller and with a colour screen. The U2 has the band's signatures; the Harry Potter has Hogwarts crest Price 20GB: £168. But when it's all coming apart at the seams, that's a different type of pressure. I thought I'd rather be at home with my kid."And that is exactly what Astley did He went home, and stayed at home.
He had offers of "shitloads of money" to do tours of his old material, but he always turned them down "I always thought it might be too big a risk," says Astley "My family weren't the reason I packed it all in. My days were numbered and my chances of pulling my career around were slim."But there have been times when I thought - would me and Leena still be together if I'd had a few more No 1s? Would my daughter be living with her dad or mum, like I did? I don't say that to put pressure on my family, but it's been a factor in staying away."So now Astley lives in comfortable suburban seclusion in Kingston, drives his daughter to school, and.. does what exactly? "God knows I'm not a normal dad I'm not going to try to fool you and say I'm a normal dad. I made a lot of money in the Eighties and I don't have to go to work That's not normal But I don't really know where the time's gone. I did a bit of film music for a gospel film called Oh Happy Day, which my partner co-produced. And, generally I just indulge a few hobbies - I've got a motorboat on the Solent - and go on a lot of holidays. I see friends a lot."Why Astley would want to puncture this moneyed bliss by releasing another album and thrusting himself, albeit less prominently, into the spotlight again, is hard to fathom.
