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19.1.02

Sat 12/01/02

Dead Pop Stars

If cd:uk’s #1 this morning holds on until tomorrow’s official chart, we’re in for the start of a disturbing trend. It looks as if to get a number one single in 2002 you need to have died recently. Aaliyah this week will surely be followed by George Harrison next week (although the P!nk single seems very popular too), which I think will be the first time we’ve had consecutive #1 singles by different deceased artists. (The ‘different’ is crucial here, as John Lennon did it to himself 21 years ago, when ‘Woman’ knocked ‘Imagine’ off the top.)

Predictions for #1s in February? Re-releases of ‘Unbelievable’, ‘In A Big Country’ and ‘Buck Rogers’.

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