Fergie

Fergie

The Dutchess

(Universal)

Sometimes your past will come back to haunt you. For Stacy Ferguson, better known as Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, it will be the awful My Humps. How do you get over something like that? Here's a clue: you don't.

Instead, Fergie has chosen to see how the limelight feels on her own, with her debut solo release The Dutchess. And yes, she's spelling it with a T - an offence worthy of impeachment from her self-assumed throne.

Co-conspirator and fellow Black Eyed Peas bandmate will.i.am has taken up residence in the producer's chair for many of the tracks, alongside venerable music alumni contributors Rita Marley and John Legend.