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Robert Palmer On Singers

Adam Sweeting, Q, December 1986

THESE ARE MY favourite 10, and not in any particular order. For instance, I do think Billie Holiday was better than Peter Cox, the singer for Go West, but the fact that he's Number Nine doesn't mean that I think he's worse than George Jones, who's Number Eight.

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