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Is This One Of Yours Then?
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— 9 Nov 1999 Tom 3 comments

The E Brothers Guide To Jukebox Etiquette 
As Dr Johnson once put it :”When a man is tired of jukeboxes, he is tired of Life by Simply Red”. Or was that Don Johnson? Whichever, his sage words merely underscore the quite tectonic importance of th[…]

32. PET SHOP BOYS – “So Hard”
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Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles of the 90s
It was around the turn of the 90s that people started to take the Pet Shop Boys seriously. Acceptance and praise increased their range and life expectancy, but it trashed their trump card: this was a band […]

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