All music is dance music! – and the best stage name ever

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Jul 20, 202652:52Music

Another over-heated week put through the conversational air-conditioner, which involves … … the man who got rich writing words that could never be sung … Anna Bullock? Stefani Germanotta? People who’d never have made it...

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