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Here we go here we go here we go here we go this is it

This is top plate tune machine. I am Andy hot-poly Dawson

Poppera poa I'm saying Mr Delaney, so what?

Yeah, welcome, look, it's a student machine,

and we're looking at the 19th of November 1978 chart.

Yes, Christmas was coming and the charts were full of things from Greece, the film, which was easily 1978's biggest thing.

I didn't go to see Greece when it came out because I was too little.

I was too young, but what I did get for Christmas 1978 was an amazing book of the film but it was all

stills from the film with speech bubbles yeah it's like you were watching the film yeah and I was like you were watching the film. Yeah, and I devoured that because obviously everyone was into Greece,

I mean you probably were a little bit too young.

Oh, two, yeah, I was three, yeah.

Yeah, but everything was Greece Greece Greece

Yeah, I'm pretty sure my brother Cass went to see it like seven times at the

cinema yeah probably yeah it was on for months and months and months at the cinema.

And yeah, I devowed this book and it felt as if I'd seen the film.

Because I'd seen so many clips from the videos of the songs and everything.

It was almost like you knew it by

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