1.   The newborn British rock culture was throwing up great performers like Cliff Richard.

2.   Some of the great names in British rock music are staging a one-off concert tomorrow in aid of Leukaemia research.

3.   As British rock icons go, Mick Jagger, the pouting, ageless Rolling Stones singer, may be the biggest.

4.   Ask British rock and blues legend Joe Cocker.

5.   As one photographer observed, Juanes looked more like a British rock star than a poster boy for the Latin Grammys.

6.   At least seven bright, snappy British rock bands, including the feisty Linoleum, share a bill Friday night at Wetlands in TriBeCa.

7.   Before the Beatles, pop audiences in the United States paid little attention to British rock, writing it off as a second-rate imitation of American music.

8.   British rock band Oasis had to cancel a concert in Paris when its equipment truck was stranded in the northern town of Lille.

9.   British rock star Elton John urged lawmakers Thursday to commit greater resources to the worldwide fight against AIDS.

10.   But is a British rock group that broke up a quarter-century ago worthy of such overwhelming marketing efforts?