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No. 9 is a biggie

The moment I discovered two blokes who’d steer my music taste for a lifetime 🎸🎵🙌🏻
Oddly at 13 I knew the Pet Shop Boys but had no memory of ever having seen Barney & Johnny until this 😍

9 - Electronic - Getting Away With It (1989)

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Celebrating 50 times around the sun

No. 8

It’s 1989 and something baggy is brewing in Manchester. In the same night we get not just the Stone Roses playing Fools Gold on TOTP but also these scallies with the lovely Kirsty MacColl 🖤

Happy Monday - Hallelujah

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Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976)
Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Marillion - Kayleigh
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

My first gig (my dad’s choice!)

7 - Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World

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#50songs that make up my life story

1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976)
2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev
3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good
4 - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Influenced by my brother & fascinated by the LP artwork

5 - Kayleigh - Marillion (1985)

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#50songs that make up my life story

1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976)
2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev
3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good
(1984)

Imagine a time when people thought this was ‘unusual’ (start of clip!) 🤣

4 - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (1984)

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#50songs that make up my life story

1 - Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols (1976)
2 - Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev

3 - Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good
(1984)

My first pop crush 🥰

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#50Songs that make up my life story

1 - Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (1976)

2 - The house was full of classical music growing up (my Mum’s influence). I adored following the instruments in the story of …

Peter & The Wolf - Prokofiev

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#50songs 34/50

Hands is Jewel at her best. I think about it on days when my back hurts and I suspect it's my kidney (like hers?) and I get misty-eyed. I think of it when I'm broken and I understand I am never broken. My hands crack very easily from dish soap, but they're not yours they are my own😜🧫

✨ My 50th song! ✨
I wrote "The Real You" about longing for real love in a digital world ❤️ Listen free on YouTube 🎶

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Thanks for the support 🙏
#TheRealYou #50Songs

✨ My 50th song! ✨
In celebration, I’m releasing 3 versions of "The Real You" 🎶

📅 Sept 3 – Smooth R&B Edition
📅 Sept 10 – Soft Rock Anthem
📅 Sept 17 – Acoustic Country Ballad

Thanks for all the love & support ❤️ #TheRealYou #50Songs

#50songs 13/50

What were you doing with your life in 1995? The correct answer comes from Mylène Farmer, another one of our top video-centric artists: Strap yourself to a locomotive, and play the Rolls-Royce hood ornament.

We're entering Virgo season with a whole week of MF, MFers. Lui dire...

#50songs 12/50

Do all of your multiple personalities look like you? The answer from this Will Young video is a very liberating, of course not. Not only are they not body doubles, they are also largely not on the same page as you. The American Psycho (and Hannibal) is strong here.