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From the second and final album by Lone Justice is this beautiful Maria McKee song Wheels. I dont think I have ever seen such an emotional performance as this from anyone, ever.
Wheels is from the album Shelter, released in 1986.
Lone Justice - Wheels

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Kirsty MacColl - New England, Promo video
Every time I hear a Kirsty MacColl song it reminds me of how much I loved her voice and what a tragedy it was that her life was taken in such a tragic accident.
This is one of my favourite Kirtsy MacColl tracks, a great version Of Billy Bragg’s New [...]

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The Cocteau Twins - Hazel live at The Brixton Ace Theatre in 1982
As a part of the new Channel 4, there was a ‘youth’ programme on Monday nights called Whatever You Want introduced by a very young Keith Allen.  The programme was pretty awful, if my memory serves me well, but at the end of [...]

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Pixies - Gigantic
Before Nirvana’s quite, loud, quite grunge arrangements the world was in love with Boston’s finest - The Pixies.
The Pixies were Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and Dave lovering.  In 1988 they released their debut album, Surfer Rosa, and from it was taken their first UK single Gigantic.
This video is of The Pixies [...]

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Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go!
In 1980 Adam Ant, looking to turn cult success into commercial adoration, thought it would be a good idea to get ex-Sex Pistols and New York Dolls manager, Malcolm McLaren to manage Adam & The Ants. Unfortunately, one of the first things he did was to sack [...]

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