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Number one singles 1956 Doris Day Que Sera Sera - 8 weeks 1966 Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walkin 8 Norwegian woood 2 Troggs - Wild Thing 2 Yellow submarine/Eleanor Rigby 8 1976 Abba Mama Mia 10 Ted Mulry Gang - Jump in my car 6 Abba Fernando 14 Dancing Queen 8 money Money Money 6 1986 Midnight OIl Species Deceases 6 Diana Ross Chain reaction 3 Madonna Papa don't preach 6 John Farnham You're the Voice 7 Pseudo Echo Funkytown 7 1996 Coolio gangsta's Paradise 13 Spice Girls wannabee 11 George Michael 3 hits 10 all up 2006 Sandi Thom I wish I was a punk rocker (with flowers in my hair) Youth Group Forever Young 2 Seany B Flaunt it 10 Damian Leith Night of my life 4 Shakira Hips Don't Lie 2016 Justin Beiber Love yourself 6

Tune of So Long Marianne

When you were born Doris Day sang que sera While Alan Ginsberg howled out his heart Did you you look around and wonder what will be will be After you came hurtling from the dark

There's a few years gone since then Jan, And it's time we began To shout and cheer and cheer and shout about it all again

In 66 Nancy put on her walking boots And Leon a rd Cohen breathed out his soul A song to start you on your own path Those poems where so much was foretold

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In 76 Bob Dylan shared his heart and his desire As all those cowgirls got the blues After all the wild endless nights After all the films and smokes and booze

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In 86 The Fall had NMEs album of the year The walls fell down on Robert Hughes' Fatal Shore I was wrangling kids up in the north Who'd know our paths would cross once more

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In 1996 Oasis built their Wonderwall Frank McCourt sang to his ma My love and I looked back on all our years Yarning and singing in your

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Noughtie six and 50 years Forever Young Laughing tears in Absurdistan

Noughtie 16 all those songs and all that reading

As the Troggs sang to their Wild Thing

And all the love that's in the room Sometimes we take our time for granted

On the day six jockeys sent to hospital forget to celebrate our / here's to the sixty years come in between Readers sailed upon the Wide Sargasso Sea