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NOW 6 - Autumn '85: Sanjeev Kohli (opens the original)
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Gimme Fried Chicken! Well, if that sentence means anything to you at all, other than being a slightly curt way of asking for, er, fried chicken, then you are in the right place! Yes, of course this was Queen's hilarious final line in their anthemic autumn pop sound 'One Vision'. It rhymes, you see? But, BUT, not only was One Vision an enormous No7 hit in the autumn of 1985, it was the opening track on the ONLY compilation album (Yes, I see you HITS3) you needed to be seen with that year - NOW, T
NOW 24 - Spring '93: Ray Harris (opens the original)
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Nineteen Ninety Three. It's a country we've visited on a number of occasions in this particular parish of variously compiled pop. And it's always one that welcomes us back warmly. There's our strident, shiny boybands working up a sweat down at your local nightclub or hanging around the street corners looking menacing. There's the noticeably older relatives who had hits back ion the 80s and are back, Back, BACK with familiar hits that now nestle comfortably on shiny new CD greatest hits tucked un
NOW Yearbook '76: Alexis Petridis & Ian Wade (opens the original)
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1976. You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. Well, silly or not, the charts of this fascinating year were full of big, big hits. Crowdpleasers, I hear you cry? Well, whatever way you view 1976, and many so-called rock journos and hacks would do so rather disdainfully, the twelve months bookended by number ones by Queen and Johnny Mathis (!) were certainly colourful and (checks notes for suitable adjective) erm, eclectic. Whilst certain history threads (I’m looking at
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