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Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell’s environmental anthem has been recycled many times

There was something in the air in 1970 — and songwriters did not like it. The year produced a stream of environmental protest songs, all of which have proved sustainable. “Apeman” by The Kinks, Neil ...
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The Sound of Silence — success was a long time coming for Paul Simon’s track

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Layla — Derek and the Dominos’ 1971 epic started out as a self-pitying ballad

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After You’ve Gone — Marion Harris’s dramatic song was a New Year hit 100 years ago

Written in 1918 by black vaudeville duo Turner Layton and Henry Creamer, the bestselling American record of 1919 belongs to the category that Quincy Jones calls “the beg”. A jilted lover begs a ...
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Mah-Nà Mah-Nà — an absurd earworm made popular by The Muppets

Popularised by The Muppets in 1969, “Mah-Nà Mah-Nà” is a gloriously absurd and defiantly wordless earworm with a surprising history. It was written — in haste — the previous year as part of the ...
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Who Knows Where the Time Goes? — sadness surrounds Sandy Denny’s classic ballad

The inmates of Wandsworth prison in London who participate in the Liberty Choir singing programme have a favourite song. In a recent BBC Radio 4 report on the community choir’s work inside the jail, ...
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Which Side Are You On? — Florence Reece’s protest song became an anthem for many causes

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Cyber attack survival guide

TalkTalk has so far estimated that the October 2015 cyber attack will cost about £60m ($78m) to rectify. The company’s ...
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Javier Blas, Jack Farchy

With the reflation trade suddenly ripping through the world’s financial markets … Could there be a better moment for Javier Blas and Jack Farchy’s rollicking ...
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Predict the UK general election result

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Lords of Finance

Unlike most works on the origins of the Great Depression, Lords of Finance is highly readable – enlivened by vivid biographical detail but soundly based on the literature. That it should appear now, ...