Kasabian's Tom Meighan reckons the internet is "killing" rock stars, not because of downloading or anything like that, but because the need for modern artists to be constantly chatting and updating people on their lives via Twitter, Facebook and the like has removed the mystique that used to surround the great and the good of planet rock. He probably has a point.

Meighan told Bang Showbiz recently: "It's not like what it used to be like in rock n roll. In the 60s and 70s you had the likes of David Bowie and Marc Bolan, and then in the 80s you even had shit acts that were rock stars. Then in the 90s you had the Britpop revival. I think - especially in the last three or four years - the internet's taken a stranglehold and killed off the myth of the rock star now. You know, when you used to buy the records and there was the myth behind them? There's too much on blogs now and I think it's killed it off. Nobody's surprised by an interview anymore or anything. It's quite tragic".

He concluded: "There are so many rock stars writing these self-pitying blogs and it's not in the spirit of rock n roll, it's like 'Wow, what rubbish'".