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2643959, RE: exactly. by 1996, his name was still big but didn't hold as much weight
Posted by Spyder7, Thu Dec-29-11 12:58 AM
>He hadn't been on the US charts since 1991 so a lot of the
>American public wrote him off. I'm a bit surprised that it was
>such a huge success in the UK, considering how Britpop groups
>like Oasis, Pulp, and others seemed to have been the big acts
>along with boy bands like Take That but then again, the UK
>scene seems to appreciate music a bit more at times lol
>
But it does make sense in that it was the time of Take That so he kind of fit in that tradition. And plus the whole, "Oh I listened to here when I was younger! Now he fits into my new grown-up kind of world."
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