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  Carly Simon's 20 greatest tracks – ranked!

  

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  As her debut album turns 50, we select the best work by a songwriter with a standout talent for finely drawn character studies As an album, Hello Big Man was all over the place: reggae tracks recorded with Sly & Robbie, very early 80s world music experiments, slick MOR. Its one undisputed gem is It Happens Every Day, a careworn song about divorce, set to music that, beneath the 80s veneer, is like a lush late-50s ballad. Continue reading...

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  Neil Young – every album ranked!

  

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  David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked!

  

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  What more could you ask for, at this bizarre, unnerving and outlandish time, than a roundup...

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