Music Week recently conducted an interview with the utterly charming and mind-blowingly successful songwriter RedOne. For quite a lengthy period he talked about how he had recently been in the studio with Dive Bella Dive, One Direction, JLS and Cher Lloyd… After a (slight, honestly) pause, he then discussed how he will be working on a collaboration between Cher and Lady Ga-Ga. Transcribing the interview we put two and two together and came up with…. well, two actually, but the wrong two.
The Cher to whom RedOne referred was, of course, living legend Cher. As in Sonny and Cher. As in Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. As in Do You Beliiiiieeeeeve In Life After Love. Not Cher as in Lloyd. As in did quite well in X-Factor and has had one, admittedly huge, hit record…
Tomorrow won’t be any better than today, as the print edition will hit your desks with that completely erroneous story on, you guessed it, the front page. Ignore it. Please. Concentrate on the excellent news about record-breaking single sales, maybe. That’s all totally true, promise.
We have, of course, apologised to all involved. And now, dear reader, we apologise to you.
August 2011
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Camper killed by fumes was corrected because the original referred to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital. This is tautologous; “Ysbyty” means hospital in Welsh.
This man could save your life was corrected because the original sub-heading should have said that Ben Lopez has spent 17 years bargaining, not bartering, with kidnappers.
An obituary of Professor John Hospers stated that he was the first openly gay candidate for US president. However wide the currency of that belief, his family has asked us to make clear that it strenuously denies that he was gay.
Homophone corner, albeit with regret: “Surely all politicians have an eye on the top of the greasy poll?”
