Apple ripe for launch day.(Dooley's Diary)

Remember where you heard it: Word is certainly firming up that June 14 will be the day Apple presses the button on iTunes in the UK ... Paul Gambaccini apparently doesn't get on his hands and knees for anyone. But the Ivors host adopted a Wayne's World "we're not worthy" pose on the event's stage last Thursday in salute of award recipients Holland-Dozier-Holland. Gambo revealed it was a review of one of their songs sent on spec to Rolling Stone that set him off on his career. "Without that I would have turned out to be a lawyer and I would be in prison by now," he figured ... Jazz FM did not have the best of afternoons at the Grosvenor House-held event. After British Academy chairman David Ferguson blasted, "Why Jazz FM bothers to use the word jazz is doubtful", it then got it in the neck from Gambo--one of the station's own presenters. He worryingly revealed, "Yesterday one of the executives of Jazz FM asked me if one of Chaka Khan had died and were Santana and Dr John the same person?" ... Meanwhile, The Darkness's Justin Hawkins attempted to turn all warm and cuddly in his acceptance speech: "Korda Marshall and Mike McCormack, you need to bury the hatchet and start working together on this" ... Given his fall-out with her a few years back, artist manager Jonathan Shalit must have been delighted that Charlotte Church, of all people, was selected to present the award for his turn Jamelia's hit Superstar ... The lure of West Ham United is clearly just too much for Universal Music Publishing's Paul Connolly. He had to persuade his wife to redirect a planned birthday trip for him from Barcelona to Cardiff last weekend so he could watch the Hammers in the play-off for a ...