Artist
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Song Title
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Lyric
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Arthur Conley
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Sweet Soul Music
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"Spotlight on James Brown, y'all
He's the king of them all, y'all"
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Beatles
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Revolution
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"But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman MaoYou ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow"
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Bobby Darin
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Mack The Knife
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"I said Jenny Diver, whoa, Sukey Tawdry
Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown"
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Manfred Mann
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My Name Is Jack
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"My name is Jack and I live in the back of the Greta Garbo home for wayward boys and girls"
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Rolling Stones
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Sympathy For The Devil
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"And I was 'round when Jesus ChristHad his moment of doubt and pain"
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Scaffold
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Lily The Pink
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"Old Ebenezer thought he was Julius CaesarAnd so they put him in a home"
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Peter Sarstedt
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Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)
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"You talk like Marlene DietrichAnd you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire"
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Queen
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Killer Queen
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""Let them eat cake, " she says
Just like Marie Antoinette"
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Clive Dunn
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Grandad
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A radio and phonograph, Charlie Chaplin made us laugh, Silently falling about
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David Bowie
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Life On Mars
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"Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again"
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Don McLean
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American Pie
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"When the jester sang for the king and queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean"
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Harpo
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Movie Star
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"You feel like Steve McQueenWhen you're driving in your car And you think you look like James Bond When you're smoking your cigar"
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Culture
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Lion Rock
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"For we no want
To hear no more about your great Sir Francis Drake Which is a slave driver"
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Al Stewart
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Year Of The Cat
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"On a morning from a Bogart movie, In a country where they turn back time, You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, Contemplating a crime"
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Stranglers
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No More Heroes
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"Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick That made his ears burn"
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Strawbs
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Back In The Old Routine
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"I'll buy myself a yacht and sail away for a year
With Susan George for company and plenty of beer"
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David Essex
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Oh What A Circus
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"Oh what a circus, oh what a show
Argentina has gone to town
Over the death of an actress called Eva Perón"
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Clash
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(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
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"All over people changing their votes, along with their overcoats If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway"
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Squeeze
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Cool For Cats
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"And he wakes to find the fire's dead and arrows in his hats
And Davy Crockett rides around and says it's cool for cats"
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Police
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Born In The 50's
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"My mother cried, when President Kennedy died She said it was the communists, but I knew better"
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