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‘Waking Up With The House On Fire’: Culture Club Set The Charts Ablaze

The chart phenomenon of Culture Club, which began to break around the world in 1982, was still going strong two years later, with Boy George...

‘Come Get To This’: Marvin Gaye’s Joyful Follow-Up To ‘Let’s Get It On’

Marvin Gaye’s memorable 1973 album Let’s Get It On was precisely six weeks old as a new release when he followed its flagship, title track...

‘Mutations’: Chilled-out Beck Records Joyful 1998 Set In Two Weeks

In the award-winning afterglow of Odelay, Beck Hansen travelled the world, with adventures in the 1997-98 season that took him from the cover of Rolling...

‘Spiceworld’: How Spice Girls Achieved Complete Global Domination

Just a year into their career, Spice Girls had become a phenomenon. Every market in the world – even the hitherto pop-resistant US – had...

‘All Mod Cons’: How The Jam Outstripped Punk To Enter The Mainstream

Unlike contemporaries such as Sex Pistols and The Clash, The Jam initially spent several years honing their craft on the small club circuit, so when...

‘Super Trouper’: ABBA’s Shining Start To The 80s

The distance between the Voulez-Vous and Super Trouper albums cannot be measured just by the 19 months that separated the two releases. At the dawn...

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