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What Makes A Great Single?

Tom Doyle, Q, February 1999

Slade were good at it; Quintessence weren't. Ten rules of 7" engagement as decreed by Blur label boss Andy Ross and New National Anthem™ writer and Lightning Seed pod Ian Broudie. Your chairman: Tom Doyle.

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