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TONY DI BART – "The Real Thing"
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Popular: #706, 7th May 1994
— 3 January 2013 Tom 65 comments

Before reality TV commodified the rags-to-brief-riches pop story, the charts threw out an organic example or two. Here’s one: a bathroom salesman from Buckinghamshire with a bedroom studio, his song riding a remix to fleeting glory. Within a fe[…]

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THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE – "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World"
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— 2 January 2013 Tom 57 comments

Sometimes U have to state the obvious: this should not have been Prince’s only UK number one under his own name (or glyph). But a check of the stats shows he rarely came that close – he was an undisputed star, archetype, household name, whose mos[…]

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TAKE THAT – "Everything Changes"
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Popular: #704, 9th April 1994
— 1 January 2013 Tom 45 comments

The fifth (of six!) single from Everything Changes, and yes, it shows. Breezy, disco-inspired, but this is the fussy, low-fat studio hack’s version of disco which dotted pop albums through the 90s and beyond. A sax solo fills in time and helps […]

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