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COSMOPOLITAN 'She has,the potential to outperform any of the season's crop of female singer/songwriter Anna Britten, Q magazine Brian Eno and his former Roxy ( i themselvesMusic colleagues back touringcould find East 17 producersfight i* n e w s f / / e dealslmultaneously wfth Virgin aftcrRecords Eno forsigned his a » x- 1 court battle with London ; elghtfirst major years. label The albumreformed release Roxy in East 17 producers Bdlip-Harding whothe first will détailsbe performing of some at of the the April acts Music have already unveiled dates aand Migh lan.Çj«DOware Court battle at thewith centre London of evening3 Music ARadj0 Célébration conférence of Music and its startingfor their firstat Dublin's tour slnce Point 1983, on June Records, which is seeking to block Radi0 event. 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The to composerthe theirMusic comeback best of to tour coïncide and Is with However, P&E disputed that there is suing the newspaper over an expected to appear in early June. is aThe three-year case continues. provlso. attributedOctober 1997 the hulkarticle, of fhawhich 007 BMG scores publishing■ 0^ coup■ EErNewlypublished research by Taylor ■ ■ • • ■ 0 Nelson Sofres reports the price of | os Robbie switches from EM across the yearwas £10.37, 1 it learned that its 11.0% market panelaccording of 10,000 to the survevrespondents based on a ■ tablesBMG Music on EMI Publishing for poaching has turned its star the major compétition for this but it says 1 shareUK tally in 2000 since was the Its companyhighest annual was interviewed every two weeks. oversongwriter his songwriting Guy Chambers partner by Robbie luring Elvis Costello signed to us not long fomed.The singer s management compa- AimA1M