50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...
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East London writer debuts with pre-release bestseller!
Emdad Rahman BRITISH TRAVEL WRITER and East Londoner Tharik Hussain’s debut book, Minarets in the Mountains; a Journey into Muslim Europe, has entered the Amazon top ten for travel writing books within days of being available for pre-order. It also peaked at ...
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50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...
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50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...
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50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...
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50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling ...
Read More »Diego Maradona 1960-2020: an appreciation
It was a dream come true. I’d emptied my savings tin, My broad smile stretched From Bognor to Berlin I would be the proud owner Of a Diego Maradona boot, Now the barrel-chested ones, Latest fanclub recruit Sprinting down Whitechapel ...
Read More »Happy Diwali – with Desi mix of Nakhre
IT’S COLD and wet outside and there’s a Lockdown throughout the UK. Just as you were thinking that this is no way to celebrate Diwali (the festival of light, not the festival of gloom), along comes the Desi remix of ...
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POP MUSIC was once so new and daring: it’s shocking to think that it’s over 50 years old. Some standards have been around for over half a century… What, then, were we listening to 50 years ago? It was an ...
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POP MUSIC was once so new and daring: it’s shocking to think that it’s over 50 years old. Some standards have been around for over half a century… What, then, were we listening to 50 years ago? It was an ...
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