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Your support makes all the difference.1. Al Martino, 'Here In My Heart' (14 November 1952)
1. Al Martino, 'Here In My Heart' (14 November 1952)
2. Melanie Chisholm of the Spice Girls
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4. The Clash, 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'
5. They were all chart-toppers as reissues.
6. a) 'All Shook Up' (12 July 1957); b) 'From Me To You' (2 May 1963); c) 'It's All Over Now' (16 July 1964); d) 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' (24 July 1976); e) 'Some Might Say' (6 May 1995).
7. Anthony Newley 'Do You Mind'
8. They were the first 10 singles to enter the chart at No 1
9. LL Cool J, 'Ain't Nobody'
10. Boney M, with 'Rivers Of Babylon'/'Brown Girl In The Ring' (1.985 million) and 'Mary's Boychild - Oh My Lord' (1.79 million)
11. Elton John, 'Candle In The Wind '97'; Band Aid, 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'; Queen, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'; Wings, 'Mull Of Kintyre'; Boney M, 'Rivers Of Bablyon'/'Brown Girl In The Ring'
12. Zager & Evans 'In the Year 2525'
13. They are all instrumentals
14. Desmond Dekker & the Aces 'The Israelites' (1969)
15. 'I Love You' (1960), 'Mistletoe and Wine' (1988), 'Saviour's Day' (1990)
16. Eddie Fisher, 'Outside of Heaven' and 'I'm Walking Behind You' (both 1953)
17. Winifred Atwell, with 'Let's Have a Party' (1954)
18. 'Oh Boy!'
19. Ringo Starr
20. Rolf Harris 'Two Little Boys'
21. Rod Stewart 'I Don't Want To Talk About It'/'First Cut is the Deepest'
22. Buddy Holly 'It Doesn't Matter Anymore' (1959)
23. Bee Gees; Matthews Southern Comfort; Scott McKenzie; Pussycat
24. The Byrds, 'Mr Tambourine Man' (1965)
25. Clive Dunn
26. Queen, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (1975 and 1991)
27. Billy Connolly (1975), Village People (1979), Frankee (2004)
28. The Seoul Olympic Games of 1988.
29. Gilbert O'Sullivan, 'Get Down'
30. Wham!
31. 'The Last Time' (1965)
32. Motown
33. '20th Century Boy'
34. Chicory Tip, 'Son of my Father' (1972)
35. Rod Stewart, 'Maggie May', originally the B side to 'Reason to Belive'
36. Captain Sensible 'Happy Talk', from South Pacific; Irene Cara, 'Fame', from Fame; Survivor, 'Eye of The Tiger', from Rocky III
37. 'Seasons in the Sun' (Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen, Terry Jacks, Westlife)
38. Bert Kaempfert ('Wooden Heart', for Elvis and 'Strangers in the Night', for Frank Sinatra)
39. Anthony Newley
40. Petula Clark, 'This is My Song'
41. Steve 'Silk' Hurley, 'Jack Your Body' (1987)
42. Los Lobos, 'La Bamba'
43. T'Pau ('China in Your Hand')
44. Engelbert Humberdink, 'The Last Walz' (1967). Alan 'Fluff' Freeman was the presenter.
45. Frankie Lymon, 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love' (1956). He was 13.
46. Gladys Knight
47. Whigfield, 'Saturday Night'; Blondie, 'Sunday Girl'; Boomtown Rats, 'I Don't Like Mondays'.
48. Eric Prydz 'Call On Me'
49. 'All Shook Up' (with Otis Blackwell) (1957)
50. The picture questions are omitted from the online version
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