The Top 100 albums released between January 2000 and December 2009, as voted for by NME staff (past and present) plus a selection of musicians and industry figures that included Arctic Monkeys, Carl Barat, The Killers, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty, Elbow, Johnny Marr, MGMT, Ian Brown, The Big Pink, Snoop Dogg, Alan McGee, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Michael Eavis and many, many more (see the full jury in NME magazine). This list is taken from the ‘End Of The Decade’ issue of NME magazine (on sale November 18th) where each album included is reviewed again from a 2009 perspective, alongside brand new interviews and a look back at the defining musical moments of the past 10 years."
- Gordon Herd
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"Christopher Columbus travelled almost as much after death as before! He died in Valladolid in 1506 and was initially buried in a cemetery there. Three years later his family had his body transferred to Seville where his eldest son, Diego, was buried next to him in 1526. Later, however, Diego's widow insisted on having both bodies moved to Santo Domingo on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, claiming that is what Christopher would have wanted! When the French threatened to capture Hispaniola in 1795, the Spanish authorities had Columbus' remains transferred to Cuba for safekeeping. A century later Cuba got its independence and Christopher was transferred, finally, to Seville cathedral. Or was he? For years there were rumours that it was the body of Diego that made the move to Havana (and then to Seville). However, DNA fingerprinting in 2006 proved that at least some of the remains in Seville Cathedral are those of Christopher Columbus!"
- Gordon Herd
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