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Pop Show  \nlan Gittins  \nPublished in 2007 by BBC Books,an imprint of Ebury Publishing.A Random House Group Company  \n10987654321  \nCopyright Clan Gittins 2007  \nlan Gittins has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this Workin accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,storedin a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any means,elec-tronic,mechanical,photocopying.recording or otherwise,without priorpermission of the copyright owner.  \nThe Random House Group Limited Reg.No.954009  \nAddress for companies within the Random House Group can be found atwww.randomhouse.co.uk  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN 9781846073274  \nThe Random House Group Limited supports The Forest StewardshipCouncil(FSC),the leading international forest certification organisation.All our titles that are printed on Greenpeace approved FSC 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\nHello,Mum!  \n580  \n620  \n13 Hysteria!  \n⑭Read 'Em And Weep  \n660  \n⑮Yule Drive me Crazy  \n680  \n⑩Who Do You Do?  \n740  \n760  \n17 Unhinged Melodies  \n84  \n⑯Nul Point For Style  \n82·  \n840  \n①  Im So Bored of TOTP  \n20 Subvert and Dertroy  \n860  \n21 Ooh,Bit of Politics!  \n900  \n2 This is the New Pop  \n920  \n980  \n23 Dude looks like A lady  \n②  \nA Dickhead in love  \n100 o  \n25 Blink,And....Oh,Thcy've Gon@  \n1040  \n6 Fricnd Or Foe  \n1060  \n27 Frankly Disgusting!  \n1120  \n26 Booze Sorry Now?  \n1140  \n29 Freaky Dancing  \n118 ○  \n142  \n112  \n⑩lips Don't lie(Oh Yes They Do!)  \n1200  \n31 Who Are Vou?  \n1280  \n③2 House of No Fun  \n126·  \n32  \n33 Britpop Megtr The Queen Vic  \n1300  \n⑭Which Camera Am IOn?  \n136·  \n35 One for Sorrow  \n1400  \nBBC1  \n③6 Did You See That?  \n142·  \n37 Why,Oh Why,Oh Why?  \n1480  \n7.0 Colour  \nTomorrow'sWorli  \nThe Show Must Go Off  \n150·  \n卫amand Barder.Wllam 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