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ABBA - "Lay All Your Love On Me" (1981)

One of the world's most successful artists and the winners of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, the Swedish band made what was, upon its release in 1981, the biggest-selling song in British history...

They are very good...

 
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The Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun" (1969)

It's the middle of a typical cold and dark period of the year, but we know that in a few months the Sun will be back!

 
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Erasure - "Chorus" (1991)

The London electropoppers, formed after Vince Clarke departed Depeche Mode, had a No3 UK hit with this in the year of the First Gulf War, the year in which Soviet forces stormed Lithuania to try to prevent it from seceding the Soviet Union, the IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street, the West German capital moved from Bonn to Berlin during reunification and Sonic the Hedgehog is released on the 8-bit Sega Master System...

 
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Slipknot - "Solway Firth" (2019)

The Des Moines, Iowa, heavy metallers released this in 2019.

The Solway Firth forms part of the border between England and Scotland. There is no reference in the song as to its title, but it may have something to do with the fact that lead singer Corey Taylor is an Anglophile, a fan of Doctor Who (and he appeared in a 2015 episode) who has appeared on British celebrity quiz show QI several times.

Also turntablist Syd was born in Des Moines but to two British parents and visits his grandmother in Portsmouth every year.

The band's bassist is also British.


Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor appearing in a 2015 episode of his favourite TV show Doctor Who..

 
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David Brent - "Lady Gypsy" (2016)

David Brent is the boss of the Slough, Berkshire, branch of paper merchants Wernham Hogg as seen in the 2001-03 BBC documentary The Office.

Of course, Brent is just a fictional character created by and played by British actor and comedian Ricky Gervais and The Office is a comedy "mockumentary" starring, written by and directed by Gervais.

Brent's greatest ambition in life is to leave his mundane job as a boss in an office and to become a rock star, so this was probably some weird dream that he had one night.

The comedy song was written by Gervais, who was in the unsuccessful 1980s pop band Seona Dancing...

 
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Foregone Conclusion - "Paris Nights' (2016)

The British comedy rock band fronted by David Brent - in real life British actor and comedian Ricky Gervais - released this in 2016 about the death of Princess Diana...

 
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Seona Dancing - "Bitter Heart" (1983)

In his younger days, before he became an actor and comedian, Ricky Gervais was the frontman of the band Seona Dancing...

 
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Baltimora - "Tarzan Boy" (1985)

The Italian-British pop band had a No3 UK hit with this in the year Greenland left the EU (which Britain would end up.doing in January 2020), Japan became the first country after the USA and USSR to launch a deep-space probe, the Nintendo games console is released, an erupting volcano in Colombia kills 23,000 people and evil Nazi Josef Mengele - the notorious "physician" of Auschwitz - is buried six years after his death...

 
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Priest - "The Cross"

The Swedish band make dark electro-rock and can be seen as Sweden's equivalent of Britain's Depeche Mode.

Strange fact: Whilst Swedish is the native language of Sweden 90% of Swedes can also speak English, so Sweden can - almost - be considered to be an English-speaking country. The only reason it isn't is that most Swedes converse with each other in Swedish.

 
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Depeche Mode - "Precious" (2005)

The veteran Braintree, Essex, dark electropoppers, formed in 1980, had a No 4 UK hit with this in the year England's cricketers win the Ashes for the first time since 1987; 52 people are murdered in the London 7th July bombings; the American spacecraft Huygens lands on Saturn's largest moon Titan; Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker-Bowles; and the first ever video - "Me at the Zoo" - is uploaded on YouTube.

Selling 120 million records, mighty Depeche Mode are the most successful electronic band in history...

 
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Ultravox - "Vienna" (1981)

The English/Scottish band had a No2 UK hit with this in the year Prince Charles married Princess Diana; Greece joined the EU; Nazi Karl Doenitz died; the UK's Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest; and Marcus Sarjeant fails in his attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth II. In prison Sarjeant wrote a letter to the Queen apologising for the shooting but she didn't reply. Nor, for that matter, did she order Sarjeant's execution for treason, as she could have done in 1981...

The song reminds me of a young lady who recently started work at the company I work for. Her name is Vienna and she's just about the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Colleagues are remarking on how me and Vienna seem to be "quite friendly" towards each other.

Oh, Vienna...

 
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" (1984)

The Liverpool band achieved a No1 hit in several countries, including their native Britain, in the year Brunei gained its independence from Britain; "Advance Australia Fair" is proclaimed to be Australia's national anthem; Liverpool win the European Cup by beating Roma 4-2 on penalties in the Final in Rome itself; Britain's Miners' Strike begins; and Liechtenstein becomes the last European country to grant women the right to vote...

 
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" (1984)

The Liverpool band achieved a No1 hit in several countries, including their native Britain, in the year Brunei gained its independence from Britain; "Advance Australia Fair" is proclaimed to be Australia's national anthem; Liverpool win the European Cup by beating Roma 4-2 on penalties in the Final in Rome itself; Britain's Miners' Strike begins; and Liechtenstein becomes the last European country to grant women the right to vote...

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Ouch. Low-rent Village People.

I thought the masked idiots were annoying, but this explains why it's actually a good idea.

"Advance Australia Fair" is the worst, cheesiest anthem ever, beating out "Oh Canada." Many people at the time favored "Waltzing Matilda" or, better yet, "I Still Call Australia Home."
 
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