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| Simply Red | |
| "That's a bit supermarket, isn't it. I'm not making that many bottles. " | |
| Robin Gibb | |
| "There's been great moments both as a songwriter and as a performer." | |
| Paul Roberts - The Stranglers | | | "We certainly weren't going to call ourselves The Bay City Rollers." | |
| Lisa Stansfield | |
| "I just thought, how many times do I have to sing this song?" | |
| Soft Cell | |
| "I think it's the only time that a banjo's been played in the Ministry of Sound." | |
| Erasure | |
| "Agnetha said she liked it. If I met them I would curtsey." | |
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| INXS | | | "We really surprised lots of people by simply hanging in there." | |
| Kim Wilde | |
| "I used to be really jealous of Claire Grogan...I thought she was gorgeous." | |
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| Dollar | |
| "Failure was not an option, we were materialistic and greed was good." | |
| Human League | |
| "We did a US tour with Culture Club and Howard Jones...solely for the cash." | |
| Altered Images | | | "Women were treated as a bit of a novelty in the music business in 1981." | |
| Belle Stars | |
| "The pop music lark just seems like a lifetime away now." | |
| Steve Strange | |
| "Look, you’re playing me like a bitchy queen and I’m not like that." | |
| Five Star | |
| "We all grew up wanting to be famous and we lived our dream..." | |
| Phillip from Ruby Flipper | |
| "At my age, I'd find it difficult to get my legs where they used to go..." | |
| Glen Campbell | |
| "I got to work with literally everyone in the business; Nat King Cole, Sinatra..." | |
| David Gray | |
| "Lots of tension in the camp. We're battling Gareth Gates for the No.1 spot" | |
| Robert Palmer | |
| "There's this homegenised force feeding of what is hip." | |
| Marilyn | |
| "I think George manipulated our relationship for publicity" | |
| Tom Jones | |
| "I'm pulling all my old jewellery out now and comparing my rings with Wyclef" | |
| Ruth From Pan's People | |
| "I could show you dozens of times I forgot the moves..." | |
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| Badly Drawn Boy | |
| "Everybody has to do what everybody else does in order to have a hit single" | |
| John Otway | |
| "I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done..." | |
| Jimmy Cliff | |
| "I look at someone like Ms Dynamite, I come away with a positive feeling." | |
| Human League | |
| "We wouldn't trust anyone that didn't wear eyeliner." | |
| Status Quo | |
| "I probably went about four or five years with a pair of stage jeans" | |
| Gary Numan | |
| "There are so many things in my past that you could make fun of." | |
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| McAlmont and Butler | |
| "We were big enough to get over any-thing that may have been exchanged." | |
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| Primal Scream | |
| "The producer at the time told us we'd never work again." | |
| Oasis | |
| "I prefer miming, I prefer if we weren’t playing live." | |
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Do you think this urban flavour is something you're going to focus on for a while?
Tom: It's the fact that it's soulful. Wyclef told me I was a soul singer but we've got to do soul 2002, not soul 1965. I want to do well-produced records that are being produced today. I want the songs to sound modern. I don't know what the next one will be. Maybe I'll do another with Wyclef. 
