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#6: I’ll be the one to tuck you in at night
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— 3 Sep 2020 Tom Comment

In the 1990 poll we had a bracket for – to put it delicately – veteran rockers, acts like Fleetwood Mac and Van Morrison who were feeling their way into a fourth decade in the biz. The bracket returns for the 2001 poll, but its terms of e[…]

#5: Thought I wouldn’t sell without you, sold 9 million
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— 3 Sep 2020 Tom Comment

The music that excited me living through 2001 is spread across 4 or 5 of the brackets. This one has some of it – the bits where R&B was going pop, and pop was going R&B, with a sprinkling of other things which seemed to fit better here […]

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