2007

Part 7 of Sounds of the 21st Century, the year of the smoking ban, the Celebrity Big Brother race row and the iPhone.

Tracklisting:

– Charlie Bit My Finger
– Mika – Grace Kelly
– Celebrity Big Brother race row
– Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
– Cash for honours
– Just Jack – Starz in their Eyes
– Transformers
– Kanye West – Stronger
– Man Utd win the Premiership
– Chelsea win the FA Cup
– Timbaland – The Way I Are
– Roger Federer wins 5th Wimbledon
– David Beckham joins LA Galaxy
– Gavin & Stacey
– The Hoosiers – Worried About Ray
– Boris Yeltsin dies
– Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
– Flooding in Britain
– Rihanna – Umbrella
– Virginia Tech shooting
– Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah
– Final Harry Potter book launch
– Take That – Shine
– 300
– The Big Bang Theory
– Writers Guild of America strike
– Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse – Valerie
– Rhys Jones killed
– The Fray – How To Save a Life
– Tony Blair stands down as PM, replaced by Gordon Brown
– Celebrity Apprentice: Piers Morgan sacked
– Hellogoodbye – Here in Your Arms
– Marion Jones stripped of medals
– Superbad
– Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
– Madeleine McCann goes missing
– JoJo – Too Little Too Late
– Paul Potts on Britain’s Got Talent
– Luciano Pavarotti dies
– Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
– Alex Salmond becomes Scotland First Minister
– Outnumbered
– Kate Nash – Foundations
– Terrorist attack attempt at Glasgow airport
– Freemasons – Uninvited
– Northern Rock crisis
– Sugababes – About You Now
– Benazir Bhutto killed
– Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry
– Apple launches iPhone
– Sean Kingston – Beautiful Girls
– Nick Clegg is leader of Liberal Democrats
– Gordon Ramsay on Hell’s Kitchen
– The Simpsons Movie
– Robyn – With Every Heartbeat
– Smoking ban
– Take That – Rule the World