Nose sweaters, actual killer robots, birthdays + the 7'4' French basketballer who's turning the NBA upside down

As ever, I rope in a pile of stories I've read about in the week and make links to tracks, forming a weekly unique A to Z!
ARETHA FRANKLIN Rolling in the Deep
BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH Mountain Top
THE CURE Just Like Heaven
CHER Shoop Shoop…
DISTURBED Down With the Sickness
ELVIS Hound Dog: No.1 Blue Hawaii
FRAY Dead Wrong
GUERRILLA TOSS Cannibal Capital
HORNY HENRY Seasoning’s Greetings
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS Don’t Go
INTERPOL Everything is Wrong
ELTON JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
KITSHICORNS Through time and space
LOS BITCHOS Pista (Fresh Start)
METALLICA Master of Puppets
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Sweater Weather
OLIVER HELDENS, NILE RODGERS, HOUSE GOSPEL CHOIR I was Made For Lovin’ You
PRODIGY Out of Space
QUASI Queen of Ears
RATM Killing in the Name Of
SARAH CANDLE Too Late
SWISS LIPS U Got the Power
TANK + THE BANGAS Stolen Fruit
TAKE THAT Back For Good
TAKESHIS CASHEW Yellowyellow
UNDERWORLD I Exhale
VERVE Drugs Don’t Work
BRAN VAN 3000 Drinking in LA
BUFFALO C WAYNE Revolutionary
THE X Sweet: See S, Sarah Candle
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YES Owner of a Lonely Heart
ZAYN, JIMI HENDRIX Angel