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This performance is taken from Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live Tour in 1993 and features singer/songwriter Pauline Cole on backing vocals. Sledgehammer was a massive hit for Gabriel in 1986, one of three excellent singles to be taken from the album So.
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer – Live 1993

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I’m not sure when this clip was recorded, but it features a beautiful acoustic version of Many Rivers To Cross performed by Jimmy Cliff with Jools Holland playing some wonderful piano to accompany the smooth vocals of Cliff.
Jimmy Cliff first recorded the track for his 1969 album, simply called, ‘Jimmy Cliff.’  Many Rivers To Cross [...]

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Design for Life was a massive anthem of a single, from an album full of the same, Everything Must Go. The Manic Street Preachers perform the song live on Later with Jools Holland in 1997.
Manic Street Preachers – Design For Life – Live 1997

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Deacon Blue recorded some excellent pop music in the late eighties and early nineties, they were seldom out of the charts and broke records for ticket sales for their brilliant live shows.
This track is Cover From The Sky from the 1991 album Fellow Hoodlums and is a solo effort from the gorgeus Lorraine McIntosh and [...]

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Slight Return was a great pop song released back in 1996 by London’s answer to the Madchester bands, The Bluetones. Looking fresh out of school and yet able to afford and play a Rickenbacker!
This is a clip from the popular tv music show Later with Jools Holland from 1996.
The Bluetones – Slight Return – Live [...]

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