Who knew Sinéad O’Connor had covered ABBA?! I mean, probably thousands of people, if not more – but not me. Until now.

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This is exactly the kind of song I hated back when it came out in 1982. I thought I was far too cool for disco; I definitely wasn’t ready for post-disco.

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Richard Anthony’s effortlessly cool song caught my ear over the closing titles of Nouvelle Vague in the cinema – a familiar tune with a new twist.

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Bob Marley captured the concerning mood of the times with his warning of impending global catastrophe – as relevant today as when he sang it in 1979.

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Love songs really don’t get more romantic than The Ocean by Richard Hawley. And the story behind it only adds to its emotional power.

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Earth Disciples (not the reggae group) were an instrumental funk-soul-jazz group from Southern California in the late ’60s and early ’70s.

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The S.O.S. Band had a hit single with Jam & Lewis’s post-disco banger Just Be Good To Me years before it was co-opted by Fatboy Slim.

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Earth Disciples were a Jamaican vocal harmony group from the late 1970s led by Devon Beckford, aka ‘Ziggy Soul’.

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Gale Garnett was a pop star, actor and author who embraced psychedelia with in the late 1960s with her band The Gentle Reign.

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Scott Weiland took a break from Stone Temple Pilots in 1998 to record a very different solo album, 12 Bar Blues, led by this song.

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