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Written by Solomon Burke, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love was claimed by Wilson Pickett, and is an anthem whose message still rings true.

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Talking Heads’ defining song, Once In A Lifetime opened a new chapter for music. Little has sounded like it since.

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Tina Turner took a pop standard and made it her own. Among numerous singers of Proud Mary, Turner remains the true River Boat Queen.

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Innovative and instantly recognisable, The Smiths’ How Soon Is Now? refuses to age – despite initially baffling their label.

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Dense, brooding and anthemic, Shoplifters Of The World Unite remains one of Morrissey’s ‘all-time favourite’ Smiths songs.

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Originally written as a poem by Robert Burns, ‘Auld Lang Syne’ rings in every new year, and even gets used at funerals and in Japanese bars.

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Recorded just for fun, Driving Home For Christmas became an unexpected classic that now soundtracks Yuletide traffic jams the world over.

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Originally written as “a song about death”, Mistletoe And Wine became an uplifting seasonal standard in Cliff Richard’s hands.

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A humorous look at Christmas isolation, Mud’s Lonely This Christmas has become a go-to staple for the broken-hearted during the holidays.

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Sultry and seductive, Eartha Kitt caused controversy with Santa Baby. Now it’s a classic Christmas song that has birthed countless covers.

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